A Thursday in May

 45°F and raining like hell with a headwind.

Quite the commute. Almost feeling like I'd prefer a 90°F day and sun at this point. Might need to finally acquire a raincoat for the camera

i know it has been over a month

 I've been busy

which is good

things are settling down

which might not be good

but is also good, for now, to recover

boss had a serious shit is bad chat this morning

news isn't really getting better obvs

shit really is about to hit the fan

one of the industry companies let 50 sales reps go, these are highly skilled PhD with a vast amount of product and customer knowledge that aren't there anymore and that is only one company

I did get out for Greasy Joes final edition yesterday. It was good. DB and I cut a few loops off because it was the right call. It was still not easy but we finished up on some single track and it was good. Carried the proper amount of water and food and generally was very good ride.

Other than the front basically going flat and me barely holding on to control on a downhill. Pumped it up and it held the rest of the day. Fortunate to have the cush core pro 29 in there, big fat protection. Moved see a few mm back because lower back was getting sore and that almost immediately fixed the problem. Miraculously feeling fine, if a little tired.

Didn't sleep great or quite enough but not as bad as it could be. 

After smackdown last week my legs feel like they are coming around, so it is encouraging. Had talked with JC about doing a Wed night ride but left the ball in his court to see if he wanted to make it happen, it didn't happen. 

Weather this weeks makes it look like a recovery/rest week. 

Finished the Iron Druid series and loved it but also very sad that it is over, the characters and the dogs and, just everything, was such a perfect and humorous escape. Digging into some Ian Banks RN.

But wow today started off not terrible. I was able to get to work in a break in the rain, dog only woke me up at 5:40am... yet stuff...  *waves hand around* continues to get worse and worse. As we all predicted and said it would but NOOOO you're wrong it won't be that bad. I had about as much influence then as I do now to help fix things, zero. So what can I do, only what I can do.

Yesterday on the bike, it was warm, but it was good. we were riding. 

take care of yourselves.

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