Well, that’s officially it for summer — I pulled the cover off the pergola and stashed it in the garage. No chance of cranial sunburn on the back deck for now, the skies being gray, the temps in the mid-30s and some nasty-looking weather to the south.
Still, it could be worse. My man Hal up in Crusty County reports thusly: “It’s snowing again. I’m moving to Pewblow.”
He’s kidding, of course. We have both lived in Pewblow, and the best that can be said for the place is that it’s 10 degrees warmer than where Hal is right now, which would be stuck in a steadily swelling snowbank at 8,800 feet just east of Weirdcliffe.
Pewblow makes Bibleburg look like San Francisco on a sunny day. My hometown has its faults — many, many of them — but at least here the cops don’t tase you before they shoot you just to see that look on your face. They just ask if you’ve found Jesus and then blow a great big .40-caliber hole in your heart so they can see if he’s really in there.
Meanwhile, I’m trying to work up the ‘nads to go out for a short bike ride, maybe a little cyclo-cross over in Monument Valley Park. Try that in Pewblo sometime. The cops will see you running with the bike and figure you stole it. Then it’s zap, bang, and hasta la vista muchachos.
• Late update: OK, I did it — sucked it up, pulled on the winter kit and went out for an hour of solo ’cross. Lord, did I suck, particularly on the running bits, which used to be my strength. But about 40 minutes in, it finally started getting good to me, and for a lap or two I felt marginally competent, if awfully slow. And now my back hurts. Mine will not be a pretty old age.
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and that was just on the Wii fit!
Patrick: Go to http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/sunday/main3445.shtml and click on the video segment “Welcome to Thin City.” You’ll enjoy it even if you don’t qualify, just kidding. -Bruce
Summer’s over in SUX too Patrick, the only exercise I got this weekend was 30 minutes on a NordicTrak Saturday afternoon and a couple of hours making pasta on Sunday — which includes some rotary motion, even if it was only cranking the ol’ Imperia pasta roller! Today the skies are clear so my goal is to get my fat ass outside on a bike for at least an hour or two this afternoon.
Watched a few of the talking-head shows Sunday am. All this talk about how the cap on salary of the bigshots running companies that took bailout $$ will screw up the “free market” makes me wonder just where the hell were these pundits last year when the FREE MARKET crashed? If the so-called free market principles worked so well, why did these companies need the bailout? How did the Republicans become the party of socialized risk and privatized rewards? Ol’ Abe Lincoln must be spinning wildly in his grave nowadays.
Hey, Bruce,
What a Chamber of Commerce hummer that CBS “News” piece was. I wish they’d have gotten in touch with me — I could’ve shown the TV crew the flabby underbelly of “Thin City.” A quick trip to the Safeway of the Living Dead in the Bon Shopping Center would do the trick, or a drive-by on any of the thousands of arterial grease merchants lining Academy Boulevard.
The parks and trails it raved about are on the ragged edge, with watering and maintenance deferred and restrooms shut due to a lack of funding. And Bibleburg has more chain eateries and fast-food outlets than it does fundamentalist churches and tinfoil-beanie libertards, which is really saying something.
Still, maybe it’ll bring a few more baby-blue yupsters to fire-engine-red Bibleburg. We badly need their votes — and their tax dollars.
You can get good Mexican food in Pueblo and your ass kicked all at the same place . the same goes for Italin food or it used to back in the day. You also don’t have to deal with the BAC brigades trying proselytize us heathen bastards from south of the Pueblo county line.