General Jackassery

Wow! I don’t think I’ve been this bored in quite a while! I’m really ready to head to Florida, I don’t even care if there’s a Hurricane on the way, I’m ready to get away from work for several days.

……what the most classic symptom of over-training is? I’ll give you a hint……..bahhhboooooooooom……..”I’m bleeding!” Heh! Now that’s funny stuff I don’t care who you are.

It’s been a pretty good week and it’s closing out with wonderful weather.

We’ve gotten the cabinets in the kitchen finished priming, the doors have two coats of paint on the outsides, so we have the inside remaining. The drawers have two coats of paint on them so they’re done, all we have to do is paint the cabinets themselves, the trim around the kitchen and hang the doors back up and the kitchen will be nearly complete. The walls technically need another coat of paint. I figure a good 8 hours of work would get the painting done, then a couple of hours to get the doors back up and I’m in b’ness!

All pets are doing well.

I’ve ridden 126 miles so far this week, played hockey twice and plan to ride another 30 tomorrow morning. REALLY slow tomorrow though. This will be Jackie’s first real ride. He’s been doing really well lately getting up and riding 12.5 miles a couple mornings per week. Now he needs to start adding a longer ride to that on the weekends and this will be his first. What sucks for him is that it’s a pretty tough course that I have laid out. I feel pretty sure that he’ll be able to make it, but I’m also pretty sure that he’ll be really damn tired when we’re done. I’m proud of the boy though!

I’m ditching Knology for TV. Keeping them for internet. Have DirecTV being installed a week from Monday. TIVO ooooohhhh yessssss, the precious!

That’s about it. I made it through a whole two full weeks in the office, and with the exception of going to hang with my peeps in Fla. I don’t plan on traveling for a couple more weeks! YAY!

That’s all!

Well, it’s taken a little while but the weight that I gained over the winter is starting to come back off. I was a little over 5 lbs lighter this morning when I stepped on the scale than I was a week ago. Granted probably half of that is fluid, but it was nice to be back below 265 for the first time since I passed through on the way up this spring.

Anyway, I got my booty out of bed really friggin early this morning and rode my bike to the ice rink, played hockey for an hour and a half and proceeded to ride to work. This afternoon I’ll ride home. By the time all is said and done I should have ridden 40 miles and played hockey all in one day. Assuming I don’t wuss out and get Jackie to come pick me up in his truck. Probably won’t do that.

My average speed going to the Ice complex was over 18 mph for 19 miles and then I slowed down to 17.7 after a total of 27 miles. So, I’m in pretty decent shape still. Cool!

27.25 miles at 17.21 MPH over very rolling terrain, 3 decent little climbs. Don’t know where it came from, probably won’t be able to do it again for a little while.

On a different note, I got an email from a girl that I went to high school with. Apparently, my class IS going to have a 10th reunion. I used to think that I wouldn’t be interested in going to something like that. I don’t know if it’s the idea of maybe going back to the Monterey area or actually seeing what some of those people have been up to but I think I’m going to try to get there. I looked at plane tickets from here to San Jose already and I can fly American round trip for about $225 so I may go.

We’ll see.

I love my dogs very much and because I love them so much I’m faced with a difficult decision. I travel so often lately that I feel like I’m not able to spend the proper amount of time with them. Sarah said something that struck me the other day about an article that she read, I don’t remember the exact title, but it was something like “rich, healthy and abused.” I often feel like I have two of the best dogs around, they’re sweet as can be and they really don’t cause any trouble. Nanook is such a trooper with all that he’s been through and he takes it all in stride. Niki has changed soo much since I first got her, it’s absolutely amazing. Both of them seem happy, but I feel like a lot of Nanook’s problems stem from the fact that he loves me so much and he wants my attention, attention that I’m not able to give him because when I’m home all I want to do is relax. Anyway, the lack of attention stresses him out, mostly when I’m gone for extended periods of time. That stress leads to the health issues that he’s been having.

Anyway, I’ve thought hard about finding a home for them and letting them go, but I just don’t know what the right decision is. I know that accepting resposibility for an animal is supposed to be a life long deal and that is also in the back of my mind.

So there are two viable options: find a home for them, or make a commitment to them to spend time with them everyday. The issue is that I really can’t make that commitment because of travel, so what consitutes enough time spent with them?

I don’t know.