Life is such a sweet insanity.

I'm feeling GREAT today! I had a wonderful bike ride to and from work today, and I think I experienced THE ZONE. I was on my game. I made it home in a record amount of time, effortlessly. I feel wonderful.

I'm surprised I'm feeling so good tonight, to be quite honest, because I didn't get much sleep last night. Earl and I watched "Paradise Hotel" (which I've once again vowed that I'm done with it - we'll see tomorrow night) and then he went to bed while I snarked on the show on the message boards. I think I must be a frustrated comic or something, because I really enjoy dropping one-liners on these message boards. There are so many wainkers out there that think these shows are real and live and die by what's going on with the contestants. They think that there's cameras just rolling with no outside intervention. I guess I like to make fun of them or something. Probably not very nice, but its fun to hide behind a pseudonym and point out the obvious.

Anyways, after playing on the message boards for a bit, I decided to join Earl in bed. Problem was, he was sleeping like a baby and snoring so loud that cattle in the next county were getting restless. I don't mind his snoring at all, in fact, after 7 1/2 years, I'm quite used to it, but he when he's snoring like that it means that he's sleeping really well and I didn't want to disturb him. So I decided to be Mr. Nice Guy and sleep in the living room. Most guys would sleep on the couch. Honestly, I can't get comfortable on the couch, so I slept on the living room floor in front of the sliding glass doors. The view was awesome. After living in the house almost six years, you would think that I would have done that before, but I hadn't. It was nice to fall asleep under stars in a way. But sleeping on the floor isn't the most comfortable way to sleep, so when I heard Earl padding around to the bathroom at 4:30 this morning, I used the opportunity to jump in bed with him. Wouldn't you know that work called at 6:00 a.m. because all of the phone and DSL lines were down. (If you're thinking about getting "Choice One" for your phone and/or internet provider, please send me e-mail so that I can tell you about the experiences we've had with them). Not a good thing for a radio station, since one can not get news without the internet (what happened to the days of the AP wire?) and one can not get calls from listeners without phone lines. Needless to say, there was nothing I could do about it, but I couldn't fall back to sleep, so I ended up getting up and getting ready for work early. The bike ride to work this morning was sweet as well.

Now Earl and I are just relaxing here in the wreck room. I'm very excited because there's the possibilities of thunderstorms tonight. We haven't had a good thunderstorm yet this year. I bought a book over the weekend to learn more about the weather, and Earl got me a weather station for my birthday. It's suppose to be here by Friday - I look forward to installing it and learning as much as I can. I'm interested in becoming part of the Skywarn Severe Weather Spotters network - I'd like to get involved with amateur (ham) radios as well - the two sort of go hand in hand. I'll let you know how that progresses.

We didn't make it to Buffalo this weekend because Earl came down with a 48 hour bug - but that was o.k., it was nice just to relax this weekend. I hit the canalway trails with my trail bike - got quite the workout with that.

And I'm not feeling any ill feelings at all about being 35. I like being 35. Life is good.