According to the laws of physics, the universe is not fond of a vacuum.  I don't like vacuuming, myself, but this isn't about housework--abhorrent as that is.  It's about what you choose to bring with you after cleaning out the bad, the unnecessary and the obsolete.  When you shift stuff out that has been sucking up your attention, your energy, ( Read more... )

Ever wonder what it's like to be a bee in a swarm?  An ant in the line?  A termite in the nest?  I think I have a clue about that now, spinning along with 10,000 other cyclists in the Tour de Palm Springs.  Yeah.  10,000.  That's more than the population of my home town (and at least one other townie was there with me...riding with the same team... ( Read more... )

 So my daughter has wanted to have a spa-day party for a long time.  A friend of hers held one, and she's been wanting to do the same for a long time.  SO...the room is clean, the homework is under control and...now it's a go.  I'm scared ( Read more... )

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I heard these words today, after getting a seat turn around, stare down and double take from the cyclist in front of me.  He made me ask a second time.  Perhaps he couldn't believe I was asking to hang out on his wheel for a bit.  His reply?  "Okay, but I don't think you're gonna like it."  I laughed and shook my head, answered, "sure, yeah."

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 I thought it was inconvenient and stupid, this little black pack I have connected to my heart sounds at nearly all times.  Shower is my only alone time from the damn thing, and I'm not allowed to wet the electrode pads (which are supposed to last for two days, but I don't think they take into consideration this amount of bike time).  It is ( Read more... )

 So I headed out today thinking I'd get a decent hill workout while on my way to see my therapist.  Yes...it's that messy in my brain that a journal and a bad-fiction habit are not enough to cure it.  Yet, I have to say the healing part has been the bike rides, and the accomplishment I feel when I nail a bitch of a hill or prove my grit by keeping ( Read more... )

 There is good news, they didn't do that EP study today after all.  The bad news...or more accurately...the ambiguous news is that after the initial tests this morning, they did see something 'funny' on my ECG, resulting in an extra hour in the bed and a handful more ECGs.  No guarantee that it was a result of the drug challenge test they had just ( Read more... )

I will be hitting the road, making my way under my own power from San Francisco to Los Angeles (545 miles in all). The reality is beginning to set in, like the realization that my core training has been slacking. I'm going to try to find something interesting to say here, once a day for the duration, so you can ride along with me (like or not ( Read more... )