Complete Waste Of A Day

Not really anything that I am in the mood to write about today. I was up at 5:30 AM this morning to get on my bike and go for a nice 80 to 100 mile ride. I have been thinking about this ride all week and looking forward to it. Then for some reason I could not find my motivation, it was lost somewhere, probably buried deep within of laziness. In reality I think it was more about the fact that I did not want to deal with adjustments that were needed and would spiral out of control and take hours of my day as it did once before. Because of this I watched the hours tick by and did not manage to get out on the road for a single 1/10 of a mile.

Here I sit writing this at nearly midnight and I have been fucking with the bike for a couple hours trying to get the rear derailleur to align properly when I shift. I am so fed up and pissed off. Something so simple is kicking my ass and for no good reason other than probably because I am tired. Honestly a monkey could do the necessary adjustments on a modern bike, especially one that costs many many thousands of dollars! Cicely is gone at the moment because we have not eaten very well today and I am hungry as is she and I am sure she is tired of me bitching about the bike to myself and not being able to go on my ride today, I can't blame her.

Now my goal is to get up tomorrow morning and be able to go for the ride that I was unable to do today. The problem is, I need to be able to get the shifting to work properly before I go to bed tonight otherwise it's not worth my effort going up early.

I guess all I can do now is see how it goes and continue to work on it and hope for the best. The day has been a wash from everything on the bike to getting enough steps in on my Fitbit. So frustrating and so annoying I can't even put into words. It probably does not seem like much of anything to worry about to the average "Joe" but for me it's very important that I meet my goals daily.

Anyway as I was saying enough whining out of me as it's time to get back out in the garage and see what else I can screw up, I mean fix.

Dad & Cyndi Visit

One nice thing that did happen this afternoon was that my dad and Cyndi stopped by for a couple hours to visit Zoey and to also show us the pictures of their trip to Alabama. It sounded like they had both a lot of fun as well as a lot of stress at times as well. One things for sure - they were hot and muggy the entire time.

I guess they still want to move there, not real big on that idea, but what am I going to do or say that would change it? Nothing that I can do really. I guess if it helps them to save money and have bigger and better things in a place that cost a lot less I don't know if I can honestly blame them.

I think we just want them here for more selfish reasons - meaning for them to be close by us and for Zoey to see them much more often. It's not like we see them a lot now nor does Zoey, but at the very least we know they are just around the corner which is nice. Holidays and all those things in-between would be sort of weird if they were that far away.

It would be something we would have to deal with and potentially with Cicely's parents as well. Yep, they also have mentioned many times about moving away. More than likely they would end up going to an island or something like that though. Possibly just off the coast of Florida where her dad would manage one of the resorts. Maybe even in Florida, not sure - all up in the air until it happens.

On the flip-side if everyone did decide to move away at least we would have somewhere to go and visit at different times of the year for vacations and that sort of thing possibly.

I guess all I can do is wait and see how it all pans out and go from there. We would really miss everyone if they were gone especially that far away but it is what it is so more on that later I'm sure.

Done

For now that will have to be it for today's entry. Apologies that it sucked almost as bad as this day has for me. Hopefully tomorrow I will have something better to rabble about. Until then, goodnight!

Photo: A photo of the stupid fucking cassette that would not play nicely for hours on end. I will get it right, for now I say "fuck you cassette, you're a bastard!"