
Zumblug, oh zumblug - tis how yorkle Oreo pop. Me no fray digger for hump. Oy vay.
Just in a silly mood. Today was yet another frigid day - never got above 32 degrees F (0 degrees celcius) - was a semi-busy day at work as Fridays go. People in my office were in a jovial mood, so the day passed by quickly. Got off work a little early (boss says, let's go!) at 5pm - headed out to a really cold 18 mile bike ride. It was 21 degrees (-6.7 Celcius) when I headed out - came back a solid ice cube, but very invigorating. I tell ya, if ya really want to wake up, and feel alive - try this routine. Granted I freeze my ass off - but I feel alive.
Came home, had dinner (yum, leftover pumpkin soup [homemade, but frozen, last of it from this season], spinach salad, and a turkey ham sandwich with a jalepeno and roasted pepper hummus sandwich) and had a beer thinking over the busy yet relaxing weekend ahead of me (realizing this as I write this). Unfortunately, the weather is going to be very uncooperative - cold, snowing a few inches..and some major ice/sleet storms on Sunday. I'll hopefully get my list of things done and maybe a bike ride or two before the wintery sloppiness continues.
(Note to self, go to library, pick up books on CD or tape, notably something by Tom Robbins)
excerpt is from chapter 2 of Phase I, Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins:
Consider a certain night in August. Princess Leigh-Cheri was gazing out of her attic window. . . "Does the moon have a purpose?" she inquired of prince Charming [her pet frog].
Prince Charming pretended that she had asked a silly question. Perhaps she had. The same query put to the Remington SL3 elicited this response:
Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
There is only one serious question. And that is:
Who knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time.
Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.