Quieter here today

 Just me and the music videos on the big smaht TV...

 

This is good, very good.

A much quieter start to the day. Hard to imagine it is already almost noon, feels like almost no time has past and yet yesterday felt like an eternity. 

Gotta get out and check the lawn for bits of stuff that got missed, clean up a few odds and ends and make a list of shit to do next, and get the little things done without having to put them on the list.

Or i just sit here a bit longer, drinking coffee in my fancy Craftsportswear sweat pants and my Quad CX hoodie watching youtube... Treat it like an actual rest day aka vacation day aka PTO aka this is kind of nice and luxurious...

if there wasn't still so much to do... 

i know - take a break, recharge, things will be there when you can get back to them, don't need to do everything all at once, take a breath, slow down for a second..

but then I have been kind of going slow to go fast forever, the relentless pace, the marathon haul. And not a running marathon that is over in a couple hours, no, I'm talking about the cycling marathon, the ones that last 12 hours or more, that stupid pigheadedness that it takes to persist against all those odds and somehow still keep turning the pedals after hour after hour

have to say, currently big fan of Remy Metailler and Yoann B's video series. So much overlap but also so cool. Our silly little drops and stuff in New England are not bad but as mini-versions they do mimic some of the big hit shit they have up there on the north shore. We had one tiny little rock, maybe a 3-4' drop...  looked vertical and scary at first, rolled up, stopped at the top, three lines, one wide and smooth, one mid-level can roll down and see the line, still steep, and then the third line wide left, looks like full drop. It wasn't, when you looked at it from one side you're like, huh, not so bad. With enough speed you can actually ride up it. The bike actually is pretty amazing, not my bike per-say, the bike, the collective, maybe the collective new trail bike grouping, they are pretty fucking capable, far more capable than the meatbrain riding them. 

Esp when the meat brain drives into a 9" sapling stump just a hair outside the line and crashes and fucks up both the bike and the body. Good news, the collective 250 pounds of me going as fast as I was broke the root system holding it place. It isn't here anymore. Just like the other small stump that took me out a couple weeks ago (before the snow).

Funny, looking back over the last week, the weight of the new roof install gone, just the lingering, holy shit how did we pay for that, and the changing perspective of holy shit cascade on that thought process - that ties it into me not drinking and hey maybe that small change in cash outlay was really all that was needed to turn the finances around, plus a couple other big events, anyway, all seems to come back to that, eh? But hey, looking back over the week, before the derailment of a run-on sentence, the two bright spots were being on the bike in the woods. Don't get me wrong, I still kind of miss that drop bar shred and the long adventures on the bike, those all day rides, maybe I'll get the vaccine along with the rest of the region and we can maybe go back to doing that a bit more safely. Eh?

Perhaps? But till then, these moments on the mtb... they are good... That and I think I've finally landed on the GeWilli phrase that may need to be merchandized... but i'm not good at that part, but also the layout the graphics, needs something special... 

 Thinking stickers, maybe t-shirts, or maybe that's too fucking adventurous... Inspired by the Wilderpeople movie, I know where it came from from there, but using the kiwi slang made it that much more memorable. 

Laptop is about to reset, damn updates, gonna grab some more coffee, watch https://youtu.be/rnTwSP3XgSY and THEN get on with the day, whatever is left of it...

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