so, i've been out of the loop for a while. i woke up and, remarkably, it's sunny. don't know what to make of that. i haven't seen the sun since like march. people tell me it's been around for a few weeks now, but i don't believe em. i'd like to say i accomplished a lot on my sabbaticalism, but really i just hung out with the woman next to me and ate a lot. maybe drank a few beers in there, too. mostly just ate a lot of food. i'm afraid to step on a scale.
a few things i've noticed since i woke up, conveniently bullet-pointed for the "feint of hart":
.ballard is still ballard. there's still crazy rummies running the town, regardless of the fact that the utterly worthless mike mcginn claims he's "mayor". i remember last fall when he was "biking" for office, and i thought, well, if that's all the guy does, maybe he'll be better than his predecessor, the toad-like greg nickels, who couldn't find a bike in a sea of, well, bikes. eight months after the election, and i'm being proven absolutely wrong. mike mcginn is, "too" put it a bit unkindly, a semi-skinny version of greg nickels. with beard and bike, natch, but otherwise a near copy.
.it's not that hot out. last year it was in the mid nineties this week, on the way to like a hundred thirty five in the shade. outside the window today, it's like walking in a park with your special lady and having free handbuilt wheels handed to you while eating snoqualmie farms' "french lavender" ice cream. and drinking a nice hazelnut brown direct from the cask. or barrel. or whatever them is made in.
.i haven't skied in like seven months. this is both weird and unnatural and also distressing. that said, the mountain bike has been fun. the problem with that is that i can't really ride one. while i did better my last time out than one of my "vermont buddies", who gave himself a second degree separation of his left shoulder and a solid concussion, breaking in the crash my helmet he was borrowing, i still have two weeks later a sore wrist and rib combo that makes sleeping both mandatory and nearly impossible to do.
.i like bikes. (could i be mayor, mike?)
.tunnels is expensive, especially when everyone wants one and nobody wants to pay for it. (wait, din't we vote, albeit "advisitorily", against the tunnel? just like the mariners' stadium? hm. food, i'd say, for thought.)
.i'm hungry all the damn time.
.gears on road bikes make going up long hills easier.
.i don't hate new belgium anymore. they give us lots of beer. 1554!!!!
anyway. ima try and remember how to do this thing.
one question for the ninja: what's the difference between a duck?
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