October 22, 2007
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1 In the bginning…
2 I gotta love it.
3 Just bear with me, willya?
4 It’s just that I’m going through this amazing catharsis right now, building a brand new exciting life, dressing better, getting in shape, using newly acquired skills, and still failing at every turn. But I just let it run off my back. I pretty much am glad that I’m still walkin’ around. Failure, a wise man once said, is overrated. I thoroughly believe it was Thoreau who once uttered the following immortal words:
5 Anyway, my awakening seems real enough. I’m not all tired and goofy anymore, but that might just have been prompted by a bike ride I took yesterday.
6 Yesterday I decided to bike around town. I hit curbs, driveways, parking lots, and cracked sidewalks, noticing along the way how un-user friendly San Jose is as a bike town. I also almost decided to run for mayor, but that’s just because of the little red tie I bought for 99 cents at Savers. Don’t think I REALLY wanna be mayor, ‘cuz I don’t.
7 It just like the tie.
8 Anyway I had just ridden a few days ago, but almost got killed heading down Capitol to Eastridge. Contrast that to yesterday where by design I got home early and headed toward Milpitas, which is a much nicer ride. But you wind up in Milpitas. So it goes.
9 The sun felt nice even though we need the rain. After a while, however, something dawned on me. Up until I began riding a bicycle again, I wasn’t aware of how few bike racks there are in this town.
10 So few in fact that I decided to do a little experiment.
11 I decided not to go into stores or businesses that didn’t have some sort of rack where I could lock my bike up. Turns out that almost no businesses had ANYTHING remotely resembling a bike rack, or that could even be USED as a bike rack. Oh, a lot of them have iron furniture in front, but a lot of those won’t allow for a bike to be locked to them.
12 Turns out that the only place in town that had a bike rack was a Weinerschnitzel, which also had a Tastee Freez somehow as a part of it’s grand repertoire.
13 I did a double-take. I remembered Tastee Freez from when I was but a wee lad.
14 You could get a vanilla cone, or for a quarter more you could get it chocolate dipped.
15 Somehow finishing a bike ride on a beautiful day and finding a place that not only has bike racks but frosty cones that are dipped and double-dipped is a whole bunch of what life is about.
16 Moving on: To the DN readers in So-Cal, just know that up here our thoughts are with you as you look out at all the smoke and insanity. I sincerely hope you are all managing and that you are on safe ground.
17 Well, this started out beautifully but as I kept writing, things kept jumping again. I think I’ll just stop here while the going is good.
18 I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday, if there is such a thing.
19 Rock steady.
20 Peace.
~H~
