Bedrock & Paradox

By the car. This is why I didn’t impulsively run down to Tucson last night for the SSAZ race/party, and why I’m lurking around home right now. Because a certain car hasn’t (ahem) run in three months, we have no backup method of motorized transport. So, when two days ago our Xterra started knocking and…

Good advice and encouragment has come my way in the last 48 hours, from Harris and Turgeon in particular. Two guys who are good to have on your side; two guys I’d like to literally follow up hill. So here’s the deal. I’m juggling major goals in two sports through the end of May beginning…

Beat me up, and beat me down. It was sublime in the old school, Kantian sense. Work today was a struggle to stay awake, and both M and I have been ornery as hell in the last few hours. All part I think of it all sinking in, I reckon. Some data, from Sunday: Cutest…

Sedona shot from Steve in Alabama, the entrance exam on Airport Mesa. As DH sez: this is what we like. Edit: Today is a bit glamorous, in recent debates. Edit.2: This is also of interest.

The Arizona Spring Fling planning (on my part) has begun. Should be some good fun. Here’s my idea for a Sedona ride on Saturday. Otherwise, planning for the weekend proceeds. Should be a very, very good time indeed. One day at a time, the year proceeds. Yose, this past fall.

The donkey sent a note, inquiring about future esoteric-masochistic pursuits. Who, when; that sort of thing. The snipe calls. White stuff may well obligate a later start than has been current. Is late April excessively optimistic? Mid-May? In envision a return to the “normal” hunting route, beginning several hours before first light, and calzones afterwards.…

None of the polling or the focus groups indicate that people are … (snubbing) her because she is a woman but because of a deficit in how she is projecting leadership. …says Reuters. So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air…

Sometimes the little things make a big difference, like PiYo class this morning (I even dragged M out of bed). It’s an ass (and ab) kicking fusion of pilates and yoga. No experience with the former here, but I did ok. Too bad Sunday morning classes aren’t something I’ll be doing too often. The classes,…

A combo of crappy weather, lack of motivation, lack of fitness, and general malaise has made this quite the uneventful weekend. One lame excuse, two self-fulfilling thoughts, and their cumulative result. I’m enjoying it insofar as the next months will hold very few unstructured weekends, but I’m finding it difficult to not become discouraged, with…

As we flew from Kansas City to Indy last week, I saw a copy of the December 2007 Backpacker laying around looking lonely, so I filtched it and read it on the plane. There’s an interesting (at least moreso than usual for that soporific magazine) article about “fastpacking” the John Muir trail in 7 days.…