Well I’m back in this space. As I said here previously, and sparingly, in the last month, there hasn’t been a lot going on here. I’ve been doing work and catching up on the blog with all of the photos and videos and experiences of our Irish and English and cruise adventures. Scroll down to see them all.
Otherwise there were the few other things that I mentioned here. And then there was a little bit of riding and some running and eating healthy things and cutting back on a few of the unhealthy things and petting the cat and enjoying what has heretofore been a mild summer and so on.
There is a bridge close to home that has been out for forever, at least since March It is on a two-lane country road that drops down and bottoms out at the creek bed. And it is a little bridge, the name of the water ends with the word creek. Why it is has taken so long to repair or replace the bridge is a mystery.
I could ride over the bridge, so closed is something of an open proposition at this point. But the crew was still working on it, well into the evening hours. Behind me, as I enjoyed a bit of shade and some water and pondering my new plan — because I had intended to go over that bridge, back up the other side and over one of the bigger hills we have here, but now I can’t — a deputy sheriff pulled up. She’d driven down to see if she could find out how much longer this bridge work was going to take.
So it is safe to assume no one knows.
Recently the county received $15.6 million from the state for road projects, so we’ll see more orange barrels in the future, I’m sure. It seems the county planners are looking at other bridges.
So I ended up going a different route this evening. I went up roads I normally go down, and down roads I normally go up. It never fails to amaze me how much of a difference that makes.
Stopped at one red light and found the large gouge in my front tire that likely contributed to my triathlon flat. It looks like a puckering stab wound, but without the blood. It is a kevlar tire, and kind of slow anyway, so I’ll wind up replacing that soon.
Speaking of good rides, this is one of the best finishes of the year, I’m sure. Taylor Phinney is one of my favorite riders:
The other big news is that we dropped Charter. After three years of poor service, shoddy repairs and entirely inept customer service — the kind which somehow managed to cost us money — we’ve moved on to Directv. We’ll miss the TiVos, which I considered the greatest entertainment technology to emerge in a generation, but they’ve been replaced by needlessly complicated user interfaces and more channels and cheaper bills and a signal that, so far, just seems to work.
Tonight we were taking advantage of some of the On Demand features to catch up on Parks and Recreation. There are no large commercial breaks, which is nice, but in between segments they have inserted new The More You Know PSAs. And they aren’t especially good.
Based on these commercials the biggest problems we, as a society face, are password security, retiring teachers and plate size. Also among the things that we should be concerned about are how we are not dancing during commercials, being green on dates and being an actual, you know, an actual parent.
Some of them are just silly.
And another about recycling … handcuffs?
Considering the audience they’re aiming at … why are they aiming that?
Back again tomorrow, as we return to something approaching normal around here once again.
