No Bones About Me

Had a good ride this morning. Went to Smith's to get healthy stuff and shampoo, having left my other one in the gym last week, and rode with intermittent spurts of energy. Funniest sight this morning: big, honking semi-truck hauler walking his itty, bitty little dog who was wearing on orange t-shirt (the dog, not the dude).

After the Big Move yesterday, my back was again reminding me of its existence, so I go up early this morning so I could soak in the spa at the gym (which is right next door to where I work). As I write this an hour or so later, I'm still not quite awake after the soak. Since work is not challenging right now, all is good.

Went for a ride last night and this shows how much Carson has shrunk since I've started bicycling for real: up Mountain, across Winnie, down Carson (with a small detour onto Curry), up the Fifth Street hill, then went home. Took hardly any time or effort. Then I drove the truck for a few minutes and got to see a mama deer with her twin fawns over by the Governor's Mansion.

Was in a situation at work just now where I had to choose between common sense or procedure. I chose common sense. Silly me. Within five minutes, two supervisors jumped on me (nicely) about my "incorrect" choice.

Peter King of Sports Illustrated writes a column called, "10 Things I Think I Think." Along those lines, here are ten things I think I think:

1. History will be unkind to the current Bush administration for not admitting, and apologizing for, the mistakes it made it in going to war with Iraq. History will be equally unkind to journalists who chose access to political figures over actually doing their jobs and finding out the truth before the mistakes were made (hint: Woodard and Bernstein). We voters aren't going to look too good, either.

2. Baseball is a game where cheating is acceptable until you get caught or someone points out something to the umpire. That makes it more American than football.

3. Chessplayers take themselves way too serious, which is probably why I never advanced beyond the beginner's stage.

4. Secret to a successful marriage: marry the best person you ever met or are going to meet. That's what I did. Pity my wife can't say the same thing.

5. Sex without love and/or intimacy is a mistake. And faking it shows a lack of respect and patience on the part of both participants.

6. Best invention ever: internal air conditioning. Worst invention: television.

7. The higher angels should win. The internal demons often do.

8. "Family" is not the same as "the relatives." One is by choice, the other by blood. As Robert Heinlein pointed, your family often consists of people you're not related to.

9. Two wrongs are still wrong and will never, ever be right. Duh. You'd think people 17 years and older would figure it out on their own.

10. If I had to do it over again, I would have done much better in high school, gone to college right away, gotten a real job and earned a decent wage early on. But then I would have missed the finest person I ever met. Turns out I made the right choices, after all.

Oh yeah: Chocolate rules.