Today was a busy, tiresome & rainy one. Woke up semi-late after a long night of watching movies & domesticity, took a well deserved ride out to Harpers Ferry after the morning rain stopped. Although, I got blasted on with rain and thunderstorms on the way home after 54 miles. It was at least hot - felt great. Came home to more thunderboomers - was planning on going to the pool, not gonna happen with the storms. Opted for a long nap. Woke up in the early evening to another severe thunderstorm, made my way around my place cleaning up and then ran to the store to get a few things + DVDs (Failure to Launch and Annapolis). Came home and sat out on my deck with a Corona listening to Switchback play at Live at Belmont across the way (in the middle of the storm).

Relaxing evening of sorts, between a few movies, cooking, preparation, organization & correspondence**

Life is Rainy (Was funny hearing Switchback impromtu sing "The rain is nice, good for the grass, tree and a fern.....Must be raining in California...It must be raining in ASHBURN...." - I had to laugh)

**Quick note to family & friends: FYI - Yahoo mail/messenger has been "broken" for the past day or so, please use gmail chat/IM if you need to get in touch with me.

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Didn't feel too well this morning. I opted out to go into the office - instead, stayed in bed until about 3pm. Felt resfreshed and better. Took a shower and headed to the pool, to take in some sun and chlorine water. Read a little and relaxed. Came home and prepared for an evening of a few errands for a dinner party thing for a friend on Monday. Picked up a few DVDs for the evening - an evening filled with cleaning, music, food preparation and silly domesticity. I plan to bike a lot tomorrow, weather permitting.

Life is like a box of whatevvah.

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Strangely an awesome day. Not so much with work (that was a boring, yet a productive debacle of sorts) - the fantastic training ride I had with my cycling club. Albeit, very hot out (low 90s/high 80s) with heavy humidity. I stopped by the bike store before hand (biked 10 miles before I met up), got me some clipless cleats for the new cycling shoes I ordered last night, and a "cool head" doo-rag. Wow, that doo rag was great - kept the sweat rolling off my head and into my eyes.

Met up with my crew and we pacelined out for about 40 miles in the heat. It was fast and furious. Finished and came home after a few domestic errands. Now I'm tired as shit. At least tomorrow is Friday.

Life is strangely awesome.

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Yet another hot day, but a drama-less day at work. In fact, a little boring. I was ready to get out of there. I had errands to run, things to do. Such is life.

Eventually came home and went to the pool for a short bit before I embarked on planting some wandering petunias in the flower boxes in my deck garden (seems that the hail I had a week or so ago...teemed with the horrid heat we've encountered killed off 3 gardenias). In for the rest of the evening for cycling event planning and just relaxation + catching up on correspondence.

Tomorrow will be another uneventful day at work, then for a probably very sweaty training ride with my cycling club - hopefully not having to dodge lightning and hail.

Life is OK.

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Hot hot hot!!!.... Sweated my ass off on my way to work, and during work. Seems that we have a little bit of a heat wave. Work was just work. I escaped on time (for a change) and decided to relish in the elements - biked out to Peonean Springs/Hamilton and back (38 miles) in 97 degree heat. There was virtually no one out there. I must be a fool. But it felt great - sweated gallons. Came back to my car, drove home and plopped my fat ass in my pool (which was perfect temperature), albeit filled with seeming the entire complex where I live...all escaping the heat. Thunderboomers rolled in, spent the evening in my garden and updating some music, paid bills...silly domesticity.

Life is Hot and Boorish sometimes.
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sidenote: I got an email from a cycling buddy who we did the Mountains of Misery this year - I had sorta forgotten about this... On the last leg of the climb...there was a photographer/journalist from the Roanoke Times who was taking pictures of the folks..."Mugs of Misery" Obviously we were all sweaty and exhausted...the last 2 mile climb. Here's the article from the Roanoke Times, and the slide show (I'm slide 33). How totally unflattering.

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Exhausting day at work - and a Monday to boot. The temperatures rose to the high 90s with a heat index in the low 100s. I stupidly set out on a training ride. Biked about an hour and a half - It was brutal. Came back and headed home - took a cold shower and took a nap.

At about 8pm, I woke up all disoriented - and thought it was 8am (smilar light in my place, my clock doesn't indicate AM/PM) - all panicked, thinking I had overslept for work...I called my office to leave a message with a coworker that I was running late. How embarrassing. I finally realized that it was Monday evening...not Tuesday morn about the time I was getting into the shower. I had to call back and laugh - explaining and to disregard the message. I think I sufferred a little bit of heat stroke. I was foolish for cycling outside in this weather with a severe heat advisory.

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Very exhausting day - and sunshiny. Took a long 62 mile training ride - it was brutal hot. Came home and went to the pool, was very refreshing - perfect weather. I ended up falling asleep while reading - bad mistake. Woke up an hour later all crispy sunburnt. Came home, took a shower and put on some aloe sunburn stuff then wandered out into the golf course nearby to watch (of all things) Rick Springfield play across the road at an outdoor festival. It was stupid silly. Such an exhausting weekend - came home for a nap and ended up sleeping all night.

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