Biking, a little weight gain, motorcycle boots, and Loni

I rode 20 miles to Laurel, Montana. Total of 2,426 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and Montana. Gotta keep going.

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I gained a couple pounds this week. Only because I celebrated hard last Saturday with pizza, and then we ordered pizza at work for lunch today. Plus, we weighed in at WW today, Thursday evening, instead of our usual Saturday morning. Evenings are harder, since you've eaten all day, and Thursday is two days before normal weigh in, or I'd've lost another couple pounds. Might have stayed even this week. Well, next Saturday, it will have been nine days since today, so I'll make up for it. Might be close to 30 pounds total lost by then. Maybe. That's a lot. I'm shoot for it.

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I am wearing my older, wider bike boots right this moment. I wanted to try them on to see if they would fit over my toes, yet. Perfect fit. In fact, my toes feel great in them. I think I will ride to work tomorrow.

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On Facebook, Loni mentioned that she had gone to the Glen Beck rally and liked it. This sparked an argument between a right wing moron and a left wing moron. It upset Loni. Then Loni checked her FB page while visiting with us, and said, "Oh! See? This is why I love Cynthia Egbert so much. Listen to what she said" and read Cynthia's response, which went thus:

"I have been watching this exchange on Loni's wall. I was going to say nothing, but I finally could not resist. Just to be clear, I have worked, indirectly, for the Glen Beck organization, and I have worked, indirectly, for the Wilson Cent...er and will continue to work for both. I teach classes on the Constitution and I also teach a religion class at School of Mines on the Pauline Epistles (Institute, for those of you who understand that term). I have studied much and have many friends on both sides of the aisle and I love the spirited debates that I share with all of them. I have things that I both agree with and disagree with on both extremes. This debate is necessary and vital. It was necessary during the writing of our Constitution and it is necessary now. But it must be handled carefully. I do appreciate Mr. Beck's inclusion of God in the equation, that makes sense to me. We all need to be more Godlike in our debate, whatever form God takes for you. I have seen mistakes and misrepresentations from the left and from the right. We are human and we are fallible. We need to not focus on the mistakes or the errors, but on the issues, please. One of my idols, Thomas Jefferson, said it best, "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." So...we must all be reasonable, please."

Then Loni said, "I wish I could say stuff like that. I was just gonna say, "OH, MY GOSH YOU GUYS SHUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUP!!"

Cindy and I laughed until we cried.

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Our water bill at work was double what it should have been. Good sign of a leak. Some company bid on the job to find and fix it. Since it's a fed gov building, we have to take the lowest bid, whether or not they are competent. They bid $2700. They wanted to start at the street about 150 feet from the office and start trenching. No, we said, start half way back. The leak is not out there. LAST TIME we had a leak with the OTHER LOW BIDDER, they "fixed" it close to the building.

So they bring in backhoes and start digging. Equipment breaks down. Go rent some more. They are already well past 2700 bucks in about ten feet. Now they have torn up the driveway, parking lot, concrete pad, and are up to the back door of the office and next to the wall going under the building. They followed the PVC pipe back to where it connects up to the copper pipe inside the building. The joint the previous low bidder made between the plastic and the copper is busted and water was gushing out all over.

In the meantime we have a water cooler, thank goodness, but the toilets don't flush. Been about three days. If you want to pee, you go in the urinal or the toilet and leave it. If you want to poop, you drive down to McDonald's a mile away. Today, the boss brought in a porta-potty. Whoever delivered it, placed it on the handicapped parking space smack in front of the boss's window. He's a good boss, but we had a good laugh at his expense on that one. Not sure I'll use it, if he's watching me go in. I'll just drive to McD's.

At least nobody's noticed that my first two initials are "BM".