It Was a Ride

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After Saturday’s flat/projectile valve core/short, make something out of nothing ride in the woods, the next two days were filled with me doing a variety of things that fell between doing nothing and everything (ish). That’s fine, an uneducated slacker needs to earn his keep somehow, right?

Tuesday brought prospects of a ride, but that that was put in doubt when Wifey phoned me at soccer practice Monday night to say that a hunk of siding on the our old home (that we just got an offer on) had been jacked up from the fast-moving thunderstorm that moved through Monday evening.

A quick post-practice fix Monday night held everything in place until Tuesday morning when I could meet with a dude to fix it proper. All will be fixed soon enough, and hopefully the house is out of our hair soon. Paying two mortgages is not exactly fun.

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Since it was an un-June like gusty, damp, and cold morning, my post meeting plan was to take my camera and do a 5 mile hike around Deerfield Park. Sadly, I forgot that this time of year they start charging entry and when I arrived at the gate and the Edie Brickell looking girl with a bunch of piercings in her face, wanting dough for a $25 annual pass or $6 day entry, me and my wallet filled with just $4, I had to retreat home and make other plans. I usually buy the annual pass, but that will have to wait for a day when I have more money in my pocket than a 6th grader.

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That was cool though, because hiking is just walking, and there is plenty of time in the years to come to consider walking exercise. A a bonus, on the way home I saw a badass abandoned van out in field and stopped to get a pic. I love that shit.

Not hiking was for the best, ’cause I was sort of itching to ride. I was NOT itching to ride in the cool, gusty wind, but an itch is an itch, and I scratched it with a crap ride.

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After a quick change into the riding gear I headed out into the gusty wind for a mostly paved Better Than The Trainer Ride™, which on this day should have been called the Better Than A Hike Ride™.

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After a couple of days off the bike it was nice to get back, and even nicer to have a strong tail wind pushing me home. It wasn’t the greatest ride in the world, but it was a ride and I got some OK-ish pics.

Later.

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