Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

Sunday April 26, 2nd Voyage   Maiden Voyage on a Ship of Fools....  I can hear it in my head crisp and clear, well as crisp and clear as a Jerry recording could be on any given night at a Grateful Dead Show, and the lyrics just kept pumping through my head on Friday afternoon as I was out on Phantom for her Maiden Voyage: " Ship of fools sail away from me It was later than I thought when I first believed you But now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools" It didn't start that way, but it sure became the way really fast.  Rule number 1 of riding a bike with electronic gears.  Make sure your gears are charged.  Crazy we have come to a world where it is hard to be smarter than the bike you ride.   The gearing is quite sophisticated these days and power is required to make them work.  I was lucky, I was doing a thirty minute easy ride, and that I was doing low power, low HR, and high cadence and my bike was stuck in the granny gear.   F...

Bikes.... I missed my weekly Weight Watchers Meeting because, I went to Kentucky for a bike ride.  If Kentucky ranked 50 out of 50 on my state list before I went there, doing a bike ride in the Bike Capital of Kentucky didn't do the state any favors.  If I hate Kentucky it is because of a girl, it always is, isn't it?  That though is a different story.  The truth is when I am honest, I don't hate Kentucky, I just like to act like I hate Kentucky. Hating on Kentucky is what Hoosiers do. Three days post ride, I can honestly say it was not as terrible as I thought, but a few bad experiences leave scars, like the pitbull that chased me and ran me off the road.  Thank goodness I was not hurt and the dog wasn't hurt.  Kentucky is hilly.  More hilly that I would have ever thought.  I mean the ups and downs of that bike ride were a lot.  I broke after the dog incident and got a tow from the bottom to the top of biggest climb, I am not proud of that, ...

  Several times I have sat in the Weight Watchers meeting and just listened to other peoples stories.  So many of these stories I can relate to.  So many are mirrors reflections of your own self.  The ones that always hit closest to home and sent me off into deep thought are the fast food incidents.  I hear most people refer to these are lapses or failures, but that is not how I look at them, I look at them more as bad programing.  Eating fast food isn't a failure.  Sometimes it is just what is a available and what you have to have.  What is a failure is beating yourself up over a lapse or a  misstep .  I think it happens because we’re conditioned by a billion-dollar industry to see things in black and white, even though most things actually live in the gray.   Then there is the judgement.  How many times have we been told fast food bad, such and such good.  How much time do we spend in judgement of what is a goo...