It's Monday! Unlike most Monday fun days, I'm filling in today for a doc..so it's really Monday blues! LOL. That being said, the weekend was quiet nice and hot! I thought the heat wave was over , like most people around me, with the few nights last week that were perfect Minnesota Fall weather days...ya know! The days were warm and the nights were cool making it ever so hard to get out of bed after a blissful night of good sleep (more than 4 hours w/o wake for me). But, we were wrong!! The heat has been turned back on with only mildly cooler temps in the evening hours. I'm happy to have a ceiling fan! LOL.
The weekend was full of new things and people. I managed to make it out to a paddle board place on the PCH, but it turned out the class and the rental were a bit steep to re-learn something I already kinda knew how to do. I ended up figuring out what kind of board I should ride (length, thickness, and contour) so that if I happen to see one at a garage sale I'll know if it's a winner. After some measuring and cost comparisons, it won't be too long before I find a good one for cheap. I'm a cheap guy when it comes to that kinda stuff, which is much different than stuff I do care about like my Jeep!
It's true. I've spent a good chunk of maintaining fees over the years to keep that green guy running smoothly. The odometer read 259,789 this morning! I've had a few other cars along the way while owning my jeep, but its the one that I've kept the longest and that has been the most reliable considering I don't have to pay for anything other than the basics on him. This weekend I cleaned him up and detailed the trim a bit because the tree that I get to park under is constantly dropping crap on it! Besides that, I'm considering putting in a "mild" lift kit installed into him and finishing the tint on the windows cause of the heat but also cause everyone looks into your car in the middle of traffic. Jeez!!
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| Photo credit.. Kelley. |
I ran some miles this weekend on the PCH. It's been awhile since I've done it. The last time was actually this last weekend one year ago when I was hill training for the TC 10 miler that I'm actually training for this year. Of course the sentiment is different, but it's been good to get out and run. I remember how hard the hill in the picture was when I ran it last year and how we were so happy to run back down it cause of the breeze, and it's easier going downhill than up...kinda! It was a good day then, and it was a good day this time around. I'm looking forward to what will come of it all. That being said, I've been going back an forth with my book publishing company on a few details.
I've decided to remove about half of the pictures from the third story, The Pursuit Of Happiness, because of the printing and actual impact it will make on the retail cost per book. So, if you've actually read it, the present on-line version has about the right amount of pictures that will actually be featured in the published edition. There are two more sections that I added to the story that are not on the blog page as of yet, but if the publishing takes any longer, I will post them. I want it to be reasonable so that the maximum number people can get their hands on it, but I also decided there only needs to be a certain number of pictures available to paint the best picture possible and bring a certain amount of realness to the story as a courtesy to K.C. and myself. I go back and forth about this weekly, but ultimately the story needs to be told for both of our sakes..Believe it when I say both of us even in this late hour!
As I think about my writing on Faith, believing, and social collateral the more I feel it's the right thing to do--and that is be more conscious of what I'm communicating about our time together with my friends and my readers. The book is the creation or the destruction of "social collateral" which is what I'll be writing about this Friday's talk on Faith, Believing, and Social Collateral. Stay-tuned cause it's about to get real interesting fast. But, until then, a very simple definition of it, social collateral, is the presence, ambiance, sentiment, or picture we paint of ourselves, someone else or our interaction between us and someone else. We do this to create a kind of support or validation for the ourselves, another person, or our interaction with that other person to use any number of ways in real-time or in the future. I look forward to sharing with you more on Friday.
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