By utilizing the energizing sounds of C and C Music Factory I should be able to stay ahead of the storms on my ride home.
Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Bike to Work
I got up and biked to work this morning. It was gorgeous mid-60’s and clear.
It is after all National Bike to Work Day.
I was keeping all the hope alive that it wouldn’t rain until later this evening, like predicted and that I could make it home ahead the blustery ‘damaging winds’ and thunderstorms that aren’t supposed to start til after 5:30pm.
Of course instead it started raining within minutes of my arrival. Now the best I can hope for is a break this afternoon where I can bike home. Otherwise I may look into catching a ride home.
Commuting Music
I should really stop listening to the news and especially politically talk radio on the way to work.
I put on Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins on the drive in and was way happier on my arrival than previous mornings.
It could be that a lot of big deadlines just passed as well. Either was… Smashing Pumpkins!
Somehow…
It’s January. That means I’m going to exercise regularly for two months then get lazy/busy/bored and stop exercising for a while before picking it up again around the start of summer.
So in the mornings I do a ten minute workout through Xbox Fitness on the Xbox One, and then in the afternoon I either ride my trainer, do some P90x workout or something similar. In the Xbox Fitness App they have rankings of how you did compared to the average in your age group to motivate you.
Somehow beating the average in my age group this January just doesn’t feel nearly as motivating as beating it did last year. Currently the 36 – 45 year old age group just makes me feel old, as opposed to last January’s 26-35 year old age, which I also beat the average pretty handily and felt better about.
Jolie Holland
Sometimes I think I don’t discover music until way later than everyone else.
Other times music in my collection goes unlistened to… and I don’t even realize its part of my music collection.
A little bit of both happened with Jolie Holland.
Somehow I had the album Escondida in my music collection. I randomly saw the album cover and decided to listen to it over the weekend. It quickly has become all I’ve listened to the last few days (OK… full disclosure… I listened to the entire radio broadcast drama of Empire Strikes Back while driving 8 hours from Cleveland to Queensbury…. but aside from that).
Anyways… give it a listen. I’ve started moving on to her more recent albums. This one is from 2005 and it holds up wonderfully.
Thanksgiving
I’ve had a Thanksgiving tradition making own meal and lounging the day away by myself ever since I moved to Cleveland years ago. It appears that tradition is dead now. But that’s ok.
Sam and I are spending Thanksgiving with her mom and brother in Madison at her parents. Its pretty great. Sam and her mom are working on the meal while I’m relaxing in the outer room.
I’ve got a book… Am listening to some Billie Holiday…texting family and drinking coffee.
It’s pretty wonderful. Even better… I’m staring at this view watching birds go crazy outside.
Nice Thanksgiving indeed.