Sunday Morning Bicycling

Great Thought...

 

Difficulty. Wouldn’t it be great if I could write something that took more than 15 minutes of my attention. 

I never have. I never will. 

Such is the true meaning of life for a man with the attention span of a gnat. 

Of course I’ve never read anything of any consequence from any gnats. Maybe their works are out there. I can’t say I know anything of them. 

Fin

A Quick History of Bloggers

Diaries, journals, humans have been keeping records forever. The scratched paintings of animals and crude languages found on cave walls, that is where the first Bloggers came from. It’s part of our nature. Write it down (or carve it on a cave wall) , it’s in our collective DNA. 

So I’m simply continuing the process. My Blog or my electronic Dear Diary is my story. My thoughts. My experiences lived over what is now a lifetime. I don’t do it for recognition. Like so many millions before me, I’m simply keeping an unofficial record of my existence on this planet. I’m not looking for followers or large numbers of “hits”. It’s what makes me happy it, helps pass the time. 

So Blog on everyone! Our ancestors would love it. . 

Fin

"Free" Food at Mickee Dees

 

Dear Diary

 21st century ... doesn't do it for me. I gravitate towards early 20th century thinking and experiences.. I'm fascinated by what Getrude Stein called The Lost Generation. Life was different then. Not without it's problems, as a matter of fact in the first 20 years of the century, the world suffered horribly under it's own pandemic. It killed many millions, this coming after what they called the Great War (World War 1 for us) in which millions more perished. Coming out of those events the depression brought world economies to their knees. An entire generation lost everything including any chance of dreaming of a better future. And yet, I feel an affinity for that period in history. Was it better? Demonstrably NO. Different though. People learned to adjust and to get by. Doing without in ways we can hardly imagine today. It was an important period. Absent was the spoiled self centered persons who inherit this new millennium. 

My heroes from those years. The Hemingway's, The F Scott Fitzgerald's, Smart, brilliant, able to explain  about what was going on in their writings.  Each totally screwed up, eventually succumbing to the times in which they lived. Still, to me, fascinating.

I wish I could have been there. Lived it. All of it. 21st Century ... does not do it for me.

Big Rock Candy Mountains

An Example of the popular songs from back in the day. 
Fantasies of life ..simpler ... to dream about .

Fin

New Blog Name

Changed the Blog name. Seems closer to who I am and what I'm doing. It's all about what I think about, what comes to mind. Day by day. Don't need a bunch of hits or followers. It's my stories. 

Abuelo 

Life Without Meaning

 "So you decide to take a holiday
  You got your tape deck
   and your brand new Chevrolet

 Ah, but there's no place to go anyway
 and what for..."
       

Captain Jack - Billy Joel

There have been times I have felt this way.

ho hum

And Now... Something Completely Different

 Trusty Steed At Rest

Reflections On Life

Isn’t it pretty to think so? Indeed it is. When your plans or your life goes a certain way, you wish it had gone differently, and you’re sad and you think if it had just gone differently and “isn’t it pretty to think so” Kind of says what you’re thinking and wishing.

Hemingway. So many people inside

 

Hemingway… the life of …. Never ceases to fascinate me. He was so many things to so many people. His writing … it’s amazing. You dont even need to have the book cover. One page and you know who wrote it. Also I wish I could sit and drink with him. He was a pro at it.

As The World Turns

They say the earth is rotating faster. A very small amount. Who watches this stuff? What instruments show this? What’s the impact to me and to you day to day ? 

Inquiring minds wanna know!!!

Friday Dear Diary

 Been a long week here. Nothing really bad happened but it was just the stress of waiting on a doctor consult for some tests I’ve had over the last month. They cannot pinpoint the “thing” they were looking for. So we will circle back around in 6 months and start over. For now though I’m off the hook. Again … old age sucks. But for now I’ll take the mulligan. 

Meanwhile, down in the glades;

Fin

Bicycles Rock

 Still riding my trusty Treks every day. Good for heart, circulation, but mostly good as a  mental stress valve.

Old age medical crap

 

Big deal doctor visit Friday. My labs led to a few scans showing an irregularity with my parathyroid gland. This is a mini gland that hangs out next to the thyroid gland which is in the neck. For some reason it is behaving badly and putting out too much calcium into my system. Age is the main reason why this would happen but the doctor is going to tell me how he will deal with it. My Doctor son says it needs to be cut out,  too much calcium is no good,  so I foresee some surgery in my near future. So between now and Friday I will be stressed out and worried about it. Everyone tells me not to worry it’s no big deal. My response is that when they have a lump in THEIR necks then they can not worry about it. I can’t stand the fake well wishing.

          Disgusting medical sketch of the culprits

They look like aliens. 

I’ll know something Friday. Until then …. ??????

Fin

Last Years Musings

It's been so hot lately. I found this from last winter. Never happy. Too hot. Too cold. Whatever!

Thursday morning. Not quite mid February. Still too cold. I have had to ride my stationary bike indoors for far too many days in 2024. That creates a problem because I am all about riding my bicycles. And I am NOT riding with this continued windy cold weather here. So now I'm losing the urge to ride at all. And I have to fight that. That's in me. The heck with it gene. All my life I have stopped doing things I enjoy because conditions weren't just right. So anyhow nuff said there. I'm going out riding as soon as the temperature gets to my liking. Maybe an hour. But I have to get back on that horse again soon.

 
 This weekend, we are going to Charlotte NC. Big court hearing for a family member in a very messed up scenario. Not gonna give details but I dread going. And I have to go. Not as a participant, but to provide moral support. Our legal system is broken. And lawyers? Can't stand them. That all I'll say. What a mess. 

The world is a crazy place indeed. On a world news note, I do not see how this Tucker Carlson is helped anyone by going to Russia to interview Putin. Except for his own personal increase in stature. And for Putin. This is going to be the mother of all propaganda events. And it came to him. I'll bet he couldn't believe it when it was discussed. Not good. I don't trust Putin, Carlson either. And I am not talking politics here. I know Carlson is all about Trump and MAGA and all. That is fine. But this publicity stunt is not going to help. We are getting the world according to Putin story I'm old enough to know that the Russkies are not and never will be our friends, This will make things worse. Tucker Carlson should stay home and investigate the crap out of our politicians. Both sides. There is enough dirty laundry to keep him digging for the rest of his life. Again, I'm NOT being political here. The Russians are going to use this against us. And Tucker is their shill. Not good. 
 

On a lighter note, this weekend is the Super Bowl. As usual I have no idea who the 2 teams are. Nor do I care. Just quit talking about Taylor Swift...That's all I ask!!!! 

 Ok time to go get ready to ride my trusty steed. I think the Verve is up today. That is a Hybrid bike. My other is a Mountain Bike. Both made by Trek. Both really good.

Fin

Short and sweet

 That's me. Quick little posts of things that come to me throughout my day. Nothing special. 

One true sentence

“ All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” 

That’s the goal here. Start with the basics. 

Follow me and see how I do.