Freedom

Break the chains that bind us - My oldest son took his first pedal strokes without training wheels the other day. It was, for me, and for him liberating.

Lean into the turns.......ramble through the dirt. Crash, breath, laugh.......feel the wind in your face ....... smile as you keeping turning them over and over.

I have to say....it was....a glorious moment.

"Do you want to take them off?".......Pause....think......Yeah!!!! Out comes the wrench, hand in the back pocket waiting in anticipation. Screaming ...come on Finn!!!....use me!!....break those chains.....lets fly.

Ok.....Now.....just pedal.....with the push of my hand firmly on his seat, away he went..... riding...little legs spinning in a blur, around the corner and gone.....into the rest of his life.

Framed - Bio-Gas Man

I feel so fortunate to be sooo loved at work. My coworkers created this personalized comic for me. Although.......I don't get it ....I think they are trying to tell me something.

So.....

So I work with this guy EC......He is a Stanford Guy, and that is ok, but...... you know....there is something a little weird about those Cardinals. Aggressive....edgy, chin scratches. They always are trying to find the best way to get ahead.

Now Cal folks on the other hand are smooth....relaxed, mellow thinkers....who find the time to take it all in.

Mooooving Week

Escrow closes on our house at the end of the week. Need to be out by Friday. Lots still to do.....how about.... have barely started. Sad to think of not being at 556 Funky Hat, but need to move on. Kids are running us out.....running circles....can't do a dang thing in the old place without somebody else knowing about it.

What is next.......Move into Nancy's house for a week, then into the my sister in law's mothers house for a month......then into my brother in laws place for a year while they are over in Irish Spring Land on a 12-month Holiday. ...Oh Man. Crazy times. Moving... all the while being surrounded by Little Pirates. Swashbucking little monkeys running amok pillaging the fruit from the refer.......

Scramble

Today is crazy....scrambling, just needed to take a minute to cool down....driving, meeting, e-mails, previewing, signing, eating, calling, peeing, drinking eating.........start again.

Need to finish a report, that needed to be done last week!

Got back on the Bike today....and have to say it felt goooood. 10 days...no riding. Pushing the pedals down......just went for a ride no training program no heart rate monitor no intervals...just RIDING. I remember when I used to just get on the bike and ride as hard and as fast as i could....every time. Of course I only rode two to three times a week, but that's ok.

Raced a City truck up the hill in the park...nice little kicker...rolling...love to look over and see the look on dudes face....What the F%&K......priceless.

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