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The reset button.  I'd steal an image of one and put it up here but NickCZ would get pissed at me for stealing images.

Granted that's what Tumblr is anyway, steal/reshare, you're luck if you can trace it back to the creator.

Long day yesterday, having some absolute quiet right now...  just me.  Nothing to do.  Not working for the first Sunday in over a month, didn't work for the first Saturday in longer.  Burning the candle at both ends and the middle lately.  Paying the price too.

I can see a tangible benefit to it, at some point I won't have to keep doing it because I have to, I might be able to step back and do the extra because I want to.  Maybe some day.

Got a nice pre-dawn easy spin out of the way first thing, pancakes made, cleaned up, shaved...  now i have time to put my feet up, relax, have a beer, and just tune out.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to hit a decent ride.  We'll see if anyone shows up.

This morning just as I was getting back to the place a rider passed me, then 45-60 min later he came by the place here with a big group.  I should have sat on his wheel the first time and hooked up with the group. But then I'd have been riding a bit longer than coach had planned for me today.

Coach said that after a 14 hr car ride and a pile of beers to unwind all i needed was an easy spin, nothing more. Got maybe 15 miles in, maybe more. Turns out I brought everything to put the bike computer on the EX except the wheel magnet.  might go pick one up today... maybe.  So despite taking it all off the Paramount, I seem to have just assumed I had left the wheel mag on the wheel.  oops.

Maybe I don't need to know any metrics of how long, how far, or any HR data this week.  Just pedaling.  Coach thinks it will work just fine.

Reset button.

So big plan for the 30th this month.  I seem to be getting these long rides in at the tail end of the months but that seems to be working okay.  Feb was kind of in the middle but the rest not so much.

Half thinking either New London CT and back or do the Boston coffee tandem of Ride Studio Cafe and Barrington Roasters.   The down side to the RSC option is i don't know the roads so well and, well, that's a fuck load of city streets to navigate and traffic to deal with.  New London might be nicer.  Have to make a visit to Fire road maybe, or at least Pig hill.  Maybe a trip to Plymouth and back...

Just thinking - hopefully i can find someone to join me, but if not, i'll still ride.

It is a challenge being here.

I'm picky about what I used to cook with. Food is important, but there seems to be a big discconect with intentions and what's important.

I'm not a fan of canola oil. Sure it has a lot of O-3 in it, but it ain't so good as it would seem.  Why? it is a completely engineered crop, beyond turning Teosinte into Maize, this is controlling a plant that wants to produce a slightly toxic oil combination into one that works for us.  The Rapeseed/canola plant's oil is actually most optimally suited as a feedstock for Biodiesel production, but good lord does it fall short compared to alternatives for use in food and cooking.

Butter.  Oh man am I spoiled.  Buying 365 organic unsalted butter is insanely different than the stuff being passed off as butter.  The "natural" flavor added to the butter makes it smell like fucking microwave popcorn, it burns way faster, has higher milk solids and lower fats and higher water than the stuff I'm used to.

And it is white.

WHITE?! motherfucking white.  really? That's not right.

It is dumb.

really dumb.

I'm sort of particular about food though I guess. My daughters benefit from it, and if I can instill a sense of how to eat well, and an understanding about it all, then my life has a purpose.

It is something many people don't get, and yes, i have a few vices.  Mostly plant based.  Coffee. Occasionally beer (yes, beer is plant based, you start with plants, add water some yeast and boom, BEER - unlike soda or orange juice where chemicals make it taste like you want).

The orange juice thing.  I will buy a bag of juicing oranges.  I use the juice to make salad dressing, and the girls will have a glass now and then.

EACH GLASS OF JUICE TASTES DIFFERENT.

Shocking.  And sometimes THE JUICE IS SOUR!!  OMG

the "not from concentrate" stuff, yeah flavor packs, each one always tastes the same.

*shrug*

Food.

Sure - it is just fuel. But it is also medicine.

Oh.

Packaging.

I get used to how little packaging and waste we made in our house, and granted it isn't terrible here but it is enough to make me notice a difference.

But it is what it is.  Maybe next year I can lobby vociferously enough to spend the week somewhere else.  Not that anyone seems to listen to me about much of anything.  Sometimes.

I should just get a wooden crate and go stand in a college square and "preach."  I do have a good 'praise the lord' kind of character i can slip in to. At least that way I could see all the people who ignore me.