- When you've had a serious injury or condition it leaves behind ghosts. Hurt a knee or back, you go through the day like a dog that's been beat, wondering when it's going to hit you again. Even if it's physically fine, the mental ghosts linger for quite a while.
- I've got an MRI to take on Tuesday, actually two different spine series. Given that the six inches of snow we got will preclude most outdoor riding, this looks to be the best two hours of my week, other than the time I spend with my family in the evenings. Basically, I ask for jazz on the headphones, and take a nap. Not a bad time, for the un-claustrophobic.
- Man, with this weather... can you believe the race season starts with training races in just a few weeks? Looks like trainer time. I'll be hitting up the On Demand movies to keep the mind aligned. This is how I found Paul Blart: Mall Cop (a great film) and many other movies I'd never have watched otherwise. There's also the Caps, who are streaking and playing a brand of entertaining hockey I haven't seen since Gretzky, Robitaille, Messier, and McSorley were playing together. So what will you kids do to dilute the boredom?
- Cross worlds. Awesomely named Zdenek Stybar takes the men's title with Tim Johnson in 14th, Jamie Driscoll in 19th, Vos takes the women's (with Favorite of the Rouleur Daphny van den Brand taking bronze and another FOTR LVG taking 31st) and Tomaš Paprstka took the juniors gold, with local boy Jeff Bahnson taking 44th. Apparently, it was slippery with lots of crashing this weekend. Welcome to my world... Yep, my reporting of results is just like SportCenter... you don't get the top results, just the ones I care about.
- Guess you want some music to make up for my absence (mostly) last week.
If you're facing a tough week, how 'bout some Skip James, Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues?
Maybe a little Workin' Man Blues might lift your spirits. Mondays usually suck, there's quotas and a list of work if your collar is blue, staff meetings out the ass if it's white, and a ton of work to be done before Friday no matter who you are. In between, you hope it'll get warm enough to ride the bike, your discipline will hold out if you have to hit the trainer, and everything will stay copacetic on the home front. You just never know. So it helps to be reminded that there's dignity in work, in gettin' shit done, particularly if you are doing it for other people. Old Merle knows that. He knows a lot of things you probably don't want to know but that's one of the better things he could tell you.
If all else fails, and your co-workers are getting on you, give 'em a threatening look, and go, "boom boom boom boom... mmmm hmmmmm..." I have no idea what it means but if it worked for John Lee Hooker, it'll certainly work for you.
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