Compelled by a morbid sense of ceremony and notability I plan to ride in the morning to commemorate the "hottest day of the year" ride. Projected high temps of 103 with the heat index approaching 575 degrees means that in a series of nasty days tomorrow will truly be the big hungry bear lurking in the forest. I intend to ride pre-dawn and in the controlled arena of the St. Marks trail.
I am billing it as a little me time with the Fuji Del Rey.
I scramble to adapt my schedule to accommodate not riding and the results are too sad to bother providing a full reckoning here. I have been to every swimming hole in two counties in recent days, worked all night and slept half the days, eaten ice cream for breakfast, and ridden spin bike time trials at the gym listening to music made by people who hate music.
I sat in a sinkhole so brown it looked like a pitcher of tea, with a film of duckweed carpeting the surface, a cloud of mosquitoes in nostrils, earholes, and eyes. That trip, specifically, was most unsatisfying.
I have rearranged my library from genre to alphabetical, before settling on color and size as the preferred demarcation. This was done at 5:00 in the morning before I ran around the block wrapped in hospital green bedsheets and wearing cowboy boots.
I am, in actual fact, crazy from this heat. Crazy ass crazy crazy.
Might as well go ahead and ride.
Juancho
Oh, and Cupcake and his dear wife Blanche had a baby girl this morning,
Mae Elizabeth Cupcake- please welcome her to the trails.
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Welcome to the world Elizabeth May!
Or is it May Elizabeth?
Oh well, I survived the ride. It's about 93.5 degrees here at 9:35 in the morning.
I'll believe that you've gone off to the other side for good if you were happily singing along with Jack Johnson while spinning at the gym.
"Upside down..."
:)
Either way, both of those names are fantastic and congratulations to the Cupcake Family.
I do hate that Jack Johnson.
oh yeah! I love that curious george soundtrack!
word verification: "hollarr"
Welcome Baby Cupcake!
Great blog, Brother Juancho. Nicky J is waiting for you in the kiddie pool out back. It's all chaos all the time right now.
I'm having another white russian. C'mon by! You know we will always have a room for you when you decide you are done bellyaching about the heat.
Love you!
In the words of Nicolas du Chamfort, "A man must swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting anything more revolting in the day ahead," but I'd say your morning's ride was a good substitute for a toad. ;)
I love it. Time to start breeding toads.
wanna come over and swallow my toad?
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