The Skinny
Hi. Long time no talk. How’ve you been? Oh, sorry to hear that.
Me? I’ve been reading a bit and writing nothing unless signing credit card slips counts as writing. Summertime. Too hot to do anything in the middle of the day—I still went for a bike ride today. Going to tool around with the bicycles this afternoon, and hope that seeing G. ride his bike will get E. excited about learning to ride hers. We’re supposed to camp out tonight in the backyard also. That should be interesting.
Work has picked up (wipes sweat from brow) just when I needed it to. Dothan is still the same fun-loving group of toothless dipshits that southern Alabama is proud of. Git-er-done, yuck yuck yuck. I have NOT been making it to the gym and I’m depressed about that. Much of the work I did the first half of this year is eroding. I need the cardio and weight work on a regular basis otherwise my waist goes from 32 to 33 in a matter of two weeks. I guess gorging on bbq isn’t helping any. 
I have made an ‘exercise’ decision though and arrived at it in a convoluted process. Last month I switched to DirecTV in the slim hope & chance that I’ll be able to afford Sunday Ticket (one day). Well one of the channels we get is FUEL and one of the shows on there is Mike Vallely’s Drive. Now if you’re unfamiliar with him I understand. I’m not though, and as somebody who skateboarded for over twenty years I was happy to see this show. It documents Mike’s travels and interaction with local skateboarders.
I guess I ‘grew up’ [whatever the fuck that means] about seven or eight years ago and stopped skateboarding. I never stopped thinking of it though. Watching the show made me realize that it is great exercise and contributed to my being in shape from 1984 to 2000.
And I’m going to start riding again.
