momentum

The cycling season has started actually. Last Wedneyday, 5 day's ago, I had my first tour with the bunch of fanatics. In cold weather conditions we cycled until the sun set. The wind made it a cold tour but fortunately we had no road accidents.
Yesterday I had the first tour with the regular Sunday cyclists. There where maybe 40 of them. So we said to eachother goodluck and hopefully the fierce wind wouldn't break us up on the riverdike. I didn't make it till the dike but turned after the first hills right back home. Next Sunday I'll be back...and cycle the whole tour of 80 kilometer.

Well, that where some day's in the past week. My total distance last week was about 180 k. I'll increase that. I have too because if one wants to cycle to England and France (Normandy in June), one has have to train. Just like I did last year.

Today was a normal working day. Payments and phonecalls with creditors.
And of course it was a Monday.
Normally I don't like these days because it's a lot chatting about the weekend about things that are often boring to talk about. (like football, you got to do it or watch it). Today however my colleague should be a day off and the others where either on vacation to Thailand, sick or to tired to work (yeah, it can happen too tired to work. Say the weekend was exhausting I need a week to recover). But my co-worker appeared on his work. Instead of a day off he decided to work and go home early.
And I thought that the Saints would please me with a day to work steadily on the things I ought to do. Not this time, maybe another day.

Last week was a momentum to get back on my bike and today I missed momentum to work.

damage, murphy's law

After she had to say farewell to her parrot after 30 years or so, some weeks ago, my neighbor has had an accident with her dog today. Doggie broke his front leg when he slipped out of my neighbors arms when she tried to get him over a fence. The vulnerable leg broke like a dry twig when it fell on it's side. Poor dog.
Tomorrow it will be brought back home, maybe I take a picture of it.

The things I do right now? work, plan my vacation (still go to buy a bike), cycle, watch sports on TV (Shani Davis is a fantastic sportsman, in ice-speedskating)
But most of the day I spend with sleeping.

It's hard to be a mid rank nerd ;)

obesity-free

The American cookie monster eats broccoli nowadays. Maybe George Bush decided in his battle for a decent and healthy obesity-free American society to let children eat vegetables.
But what the *****, I am the cookie monster and I like spinach as well, and occasionally books and of course a lot of exercise because man is responsible for his own problem.

Municipal elections

After four years the local elections have become a landslide again. This time the big looser of the 2002 elections was the great winner of the 2006 local elections.

I couldn't make up my mind what to choose but at 8.15 am I said to myself okay. I'm gonna vote for the leader of my party. I was in doubt actually because this is a local election. The green "nature" party could be more beneficiary for me. I chose the social democrats because of a strong party. And they became the largest party here in Utrecht, fading away an even larger local party called leefbaar Utrecht. Now it's time for some local action.
Hopefully they show that nature is one important item of them.