A much needed good weekend
August 14, 2006Been dealing with a lot of personal crap recently, attempts to push through them didn’t go as well as one could hope for. This resulted in me going into what Tina has referred to as “hermit mode”, things are a little better now but i’m still mostly being hermit boy.
I made a choice last week to ride my bicycle around Lake Tahoe on my birthday this year. My birthday is in early October so this should give me enough time to train. I currently ride minimum of 12miles per day that I work, but I’ve been taking longer routes home and approaching 80 miles a week of riding going into the weekends.
Doing a good amount of mileage during the week it was time this weekend to get out and do some real mileage on Saturday morning to get my body used to long distance cycling again. I left at 7am on Saturday morning and 4 hours later was back home with 55 miles ridden for the day. I promptly went back to bed and slept for a few hours, and spent the rest of the day recovering.
Sunday morning, went to town and got a coffee, wandered around Fry’s ( haven’t been there in months ) then fired up the Harley and went for a ride out in the delta. Found some neat backroads, then headed for the Riverboat for a pint or two of Newcastle. Headed home the long way then took grandma out to dinner and spent some time playing some board games with her and just hanging out. Watched a couple of movies and went to bed by 11pm.
I bought a book of logic puzzles and have spent a little time working on those, some of them I do really well on others i can’t seem to get out of my own way, but they provide a bit of entertainment while eating breakfast in the morning. I’ve been trying to eat breakfast every morning ( i’m not a breakfast person ), and i’ve been reading magazines and doing puzzles instead of reading novels to try and give my brain a little more diversity and a little bit of exercise. The exercise is not helping, brain is still a lethargic mess but one can’t blame me for trying.
I was supposed to see an old friend a couple of weekends ago, but events conspired against me and the drunk idiots I was with wouldn’t leave the bar so I could get to my motorcycle and go see her. Totally sucks. I guess I shouldn’t expect much when hanging around with alcoholics though.
