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Today's Ride
1.6 miles to the grocery store, 1.6 back. I wore oxford shoes and got away with it. (Wikipedia says that "oxford" is a very specific style, but when I was growing up, it just meant the ordinary lace-up shoe that everybody wore; if it wasn't buckled or a slip-on, we called it an oxford.) Fans will be pleased to know that I got ideas for two half-baked columns. Since there was one in the buffer, this means that AG: will continue for three more weeks -- unless I look at one or more and say "oh, yuk; there are *limits*". I wonder what my intentions were when I started writing columns? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I wrote the above on Tuesday, 22 March 2016. I don't know why I didn't send it that night, but I do know why it's been languishing since Thursday the 24th. Today is the first time I've been able to spare sitting-at-the-typewriter time for non-essentials. For a while, any ideas I get will pertain to bicycle-shaped objects, specifically the "comfort bike" I bought a few years ago for use as a pedal-powered wheelchair. I have "arthritic changes", as the doctor delicately phrased it, in a hip-to-spine joint, which late-night introspection has convinced me is almost certainly due to the terrific thump my left hip took in the late eighties or early nineties when I tried to start my bike while standing in a puddle of oil that I had mistaken for water. Maybe there's a column: avoid puddles when there hasn't been any rain. A medical column in the paper said that cycling is a good way to stave off arthritis, but there's the little matter of getting on and off. I can't afford to give that hip another thump. (It got bashed again when I slipped on ice early in the century, and may have been included in the spectacular array of bruises I collected when I lost my balance while reading a map a year or three ago. (Dropped a paper, tried to pick it up without dismounting.)) -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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