Weekendus Laborious

Yeah, I know Labor Day was ages ago, but I've been more than busy since then... with work and headaches.

We skipped down to Rocky Fork Lake Sunday morning to help with some deck maintenance. It needed to be torn out and a new deck needed to be installed. I've always been good for grunt work and it had been some time since my last trip to the RFL.

The history behind it is this... I met Bradley in a bathroom at orientation. Bradley's family had a place on the RFL from way back in the day. Bradley would bring fellers out and we'd burn firewood and throw hatchets and ski. He'd bring girls out and they wouldn't understand. In school, trips to this place were like finding Willie Wonka's Golden Ticket several dozen times.

But the trip didn't last much more than a day which sucked, but we got a lot done on the deck... I think so. Then on the way back, my transmission decided that enough was enough. Too bad it was in Greenfield. If you're not familiar with Ohio, it's 70 miles south of Columbus in the middle of nowhere. We were stopped at a gas station and as the locals would roll up, I kept thinking to myself, "His car will run and mine won't?? What the hell??" Needless to say, there were some beauties. But the worst part was missing the final baseball game at Cooper Stadium. Tickets were purchased, Clippers shirts were clean... we were set... except for being 70 miles from home of course.

And this past week has been so busy I haven't had time to think about buying a new car... not that I even want to. I never used the one I had all that much, so I don't want to buy a new one, but I want something that's going to last me more than five years. I've just got to bite the bullet.

I did get a chance to run a 5K this weekend in Delaware with my friend Hoffmann. We had talked about doing it, but then it got lost in the shuffle, but he called Saturday and wanted to know if I was still interested. I was interested and shouldn't have stayed out so late. But there's nothing like a run to sweat that crap out of you. And it was a great time. There were only about 100 people that ran and we preceded their horse parade so there were all kinds of people lining the streets as you ran by... not necessarily cheering, but at least they weren't rooting against you. It must've worked because it was my fastest 5K by more than a minute.