what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

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April 18, 2024

Ode to the plumb bob

fashioned from found objects

aka  I.S.R.U.

 

stationary biking

treadmilling

hamster wheeling

 

busting ass

sweating balls

getting nowhere

 

m i s d i r e c t e d

energy      barking

up all the wrong trees

 

riding up hills

just                to

ride back down

 

clock in

clock out

40 hour repeat

 

routine

route     rout

rut

 

better to

burn out      than

fade away

 

Neil Young

if & only if

Def Leppard 

 

Rock of Ages

rock paper scissors

rock & hard place

 

unlimited

renewable resources

you’d like to think

 

you’re the one

telling them

how it is

 

word

cloud

generator

 

overhead projector

transparency

meltdown

 

pissing

power point

presentations

 

unrealistic expectations

unachievable—---goals

unobtainable     ideals

 

forbidden fruit

ferments to

sour grapes 

 

be careful

what you

wish for

 

six   of   one

half dozen

the other

 

obsessive

compulsive

disorder

 

ten

minutes 

to Wapner


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from me to you

April 17, 2024

what if I sent you a photo of a postcard

 

from me to you in 0.67 seconds



 

then proceeded to mail it to you

 

from me to you in 6 to 7 working days

 


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crow knows this & crow knows that

April 17, 2024


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no talking

April 16, 2024


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1 x 7

April 14, 2024

one more snifter

high plains drifter

down tube shifter


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contingencies

April 12, 2024

not counting contingencies

53 degrees and overcast

don’t overthink it

today’s your Thursday

pre-ride preparations 

or lack thereof:

  • tall can coozie
  • cotton t-shirt
  • cotton hoodie
  • mini tool

 

what could possibly go wrong?

no way to boyscout out of this one

MacGyver

 

give me a 5mm wrench long enough and a pocket to put it in and I will move the world.

 

but what if it’s on the miniest mini tool in the world? 

"Big Time Mini Tool"

4/11/24 


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meanwhile, have another beer

April 10, 2024

compartmentalize

intellectualize

rationalize

clockwise

fall back

phantom nostalgia

rearview retrospect

with a nod

oh so subtle 

barely perceptible

messenger chin tilt 

to Our Lady of 

shoulda woulda inertia

ONEWAY or another

explain it away

look the other way

put it away

put it down

put it back

put it on the back      burner

pat on the back

congratulate

all the goods

all that good stuff

bright side blindness

oblivious optimism

half-fulling everything

wishfully wishy-washy

that’s ok

That’s OK   you say

again and again

and again

It’s OK

it’s ok

until it’s not

fake it 

til you break it

then it’s not OK




maybe we’ll leave come springtime

meanwhile, have another beer

 

       –“Sunset Grill” Don Henley

 


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Tuesday afternoon

April 9, 2024

This little ditty goes out to Catarina. You know Cat. As I was in the midst of a text conversation with Cat about printing the internet. I was hopping on a bike to drop a couple postcards into a mailbox. Which in my zipcode means riding a mile or two or five to find a blue box. As an electric ass mailman my hands are in and out of mailboxes all day long, but I'm not at work this Tuesday afternoon. 

 

When I dropped off the postcards and found myself looking at Chuck’s hop shop what could I do except have a beer, a Cloudburst beer

 

Then I thought what if, what if I was writing in a notebook and then I took a photo of it and put it on the internet only to print it out later on paper in black & white to 3-hole punch it and file it away in a binder??? Spinning circles of futility. Circles too big to send in a text message.  

 

It’s not that I like this song. It’s that it really is Tuesday Afternoon so it fits in a sad sack, wet blanket, debbie downer way so...

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imagine, if you will

April 7, 2024

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

That's the signpost up ahead

—your next stop,

the T-shirt Zone


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today's bicycle

April 4, 2024

 

Bicycle

by Paul Fattaruso

 

is a book you need to read. a book I've referred to so many times over the years, that google fed me back my own photos when I was looking for the cover shot. a book I return to again and again every once in a while, as I did today on today's bicycle and yesterday on yesterday's bicycle too. 


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