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Whole Bunch of Junk

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Cleveland (and Ohio as a whole) has to have the worst drivers.  Statistically I’m sure its a fact.  They’re bad.  Really bad.  I may live in Cleveland, but grew up driving somewhere else, which allows me to set myself apart.  But Ohio, you do driving wrong.

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I had a dream about watching my father drive when he was young (in his 20’s).  He was skinny and drove a car that made a loud “WUGA WUGA WUGA” noise when it was started.  We were good friends and it wasn’t strange even though we knew I was his son.  I helped him daily push start his crappy old car.  Weird.

 

Tea then Coffee?  I’ve started drinking tea in the morning, and coffee throughout the work day.  Don’t know why, but its a slight change.

Lazy.  I’ve mentioned my lack of motivation to exercise.  So this morning I stepped on the scale and sort of looked through my fingers at the LCD expected it to just say fat.  Instead it said 174.  Basically 4 pounds off of where I was mid-exercise craze. I hovered around 170 at my low last year. I’m ok with that.

Sabres are playing today.  Woooooooooooooo o o o….

Excitement around Sabres games has gone so far downhill.  Let’s hope the win tonight to get me excited again.  Damn you Buffalo sports teams.

Empire Strikes Back

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I’ve always had bizarre dreams. I do pretty good remember them.

In the last few weeks they’ve been up and down in strangeness. But my favorite recently has had to do with Star Wars. Specifically Empire Strikes Back.

I had a dream that I wasn’t in Empire Strikes Back, but rather was in the filming of the movie Empire Strikes Back. I don’t think I was Han, Luke, Leila or any of them main characters. Rather, for some reason, the director had decided the most exciting part of Star Wars (A New Hope) was the prison jailbreak scene, and that Empire Strikes Back had to emulate that.

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I remember standing behind some bars in a make shift jail cell with strange aliens next to me. I had to try and break the bars to escape. I managed to pick the lock with some help and then ran out of the door. Then the director yelled cut. He liked it, but wasn’t sure his movie would get made because…

In the room next to us another version of Empire Strikes Back was being filmed. This was almost ide

ntical to ours, still focused on a jail break. In my place as the main character was someone I worked with. She was absolutely positive their movie would be the one that made it into the theaters.

The movie company wanted two versions filmed simultatneously and would pick the best one to go in the theaters.

I never did get to find out which one made it into the theater. The dream ended with me talking with my co-worker about how they got the whole story of Star Wars wrong and the film should be some epic science fictionmovie, like it was in real life.

A new bike

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My goal is to save enough money to buy a new bike by the end of April.

I’m look at spending between $800 and $1000 on a bike.

That’s slightly less than I saved and spent on Hawaii last year.

I can’t imagine spending that much money on a bike, but I need a new bike, and if I get a new bike I’d like it to be an upgrade, not the same bike.  My current bike is up on the trainer right now, which is where I’d love to leave it.  When I bought the bike I have currently cost me somewhere around the $400 – $500 mark and I’ve had it for ten years.

TEN YEARS.  I don’t think I have much in my possession that I’ve had for ten years, much less used for ten years.  Considering the increasing mileage I’ve put on my bike in the last few years (and hope to keep  increasing) a new is probably required.

I’m debating what kind of bike to get too.  Either a true road bike, or a cyclocross bike.  A cyclocross bike would be ideal for the towpath trail that I’ve done my 50 mile bike rides on.  That trail consists of large portions of crushed gravel paths, which my bike handled surprisingly well this last year.

However a road bike, well, its what I’ve wanted for a while now.  They look amazing, would be fantastic for all of my other rides and it just feels amazing when I get cruising.  Rides through Cleveland, the suburbs, the metro parks, and all the way to work are paved roads that I love to see just how fast I can go.

So I’ve got some thinking to do, some saving to do, and some training to do between now and then.

For now I’ll keep looking at the bikes online and dreaming of the future.

 

 

Low Key Birthday

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I have been championing low key birthdays for a while now.

So I lived the low key birthday last night.  Came home from work around 6 pm, ordered some pizza, and put on the hockey game.  The hockey game lasted one minute.  I had to shut it off after Winnipeg scored 1 minute into the game.

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So instead I watched Skyfall.  I’ve seen it before but it was entertaining enough to watch again (certainly more entertaining than the Sabres at that point).  A long bath and in bed by 11.  Not too bad.  Nice and low key.

 

My mom sent me a Whirley Pop Stovetop Popcorn maker for my birthday.  My popcorn making experience is now complete.

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Oh, and Kenny Loggins Day was a success.  He played all day long and was acknowledged and enjoyed by all at work.  I’m not sure how many songs were played, but I even took requests.  That’s how successful Kenny Loggins Day was.  Two years running and it’s a tradition already.

 

Lastly… My boss got me a great card for my birthday.

 

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Homecoming / Kenny Loggins Day

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It’s my birthday.  34!!!!

Crazy.  Not really.   34 has been coming for a long time.  Ever since 33 really.

But aside from my birthday this a normal day.  Work.  Come Home.  Exercise probably.  Maybe, since its Tuesday, hang out with a friend and Vegan Mac n Cheese.  Maybe.

Sam has class till late, so we’ll see.  Maybe I’ll just watch the Sabres game.

Anyways, Sam and I drove home this weekend (well my home) to Queensbury.  We’ve been dating for over two years and she’s never seen my home town.  So we drove on out there for my father’s 65th birthday and a weekend surrounded by family.  Massive amounts of nephews and niece time.  It was great.

If it hadn’t been so cold I would have liked to show Sam some more of Queensbury.  She saw my parents house, my sister’s house, a few restaurants, and part of Saratoga.  There’s more to be seen there.  Hiking in the mountains, Lake George, the hunting camp, the Hudson River, small museums and art galleries in Glens Falls, small diners and locally owned restaurants, and some speciality shops.  Just lots of little things to do.  That’ll we’ll get to when it gets above freezing and we’re in Queensbury.

But its good to be home.  Angelo is loving having us back.  And it’s my birthday.  Wooo.  Time to go to work and celebrate “KENNY LOGGINS’ DAY!!”  It just so happens that Kenny Loggins Day fell on a weekend, and as a hardworking american I need to celebrate my holidays during the week to get the most out of them, so today is the observed celebration of Kenny Loggins Day.  It consists of only listening to Kenny Loggins and explaining his awesomeness to all who will listen.

Time to blast some Footloose.