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Monday, October 29, 2007

Hello there. It's been a while since I last blogged. I can't exactly explain why but it seems that some sort combination of busyness, personal turmoil, laziness and a search for something worthwhile to say has played a part in this. I mean, with all the bloggage available out there, why would anyone read my rather pedestrain ramblings?

News Flash:

By the way...this is what I just said to my wife:

Me: "USA is showing the Jewish version of Pirates of the Caribbean" (after an ad during L & O: CI)

Her: "What??? What do you mean?"

Wait for it...

Wait...

Wait...

Me: "It's the uncut version"

I'm here all week...be sure to tip your wait staff.

OK, back to what I was saying. Anyway, I'm not sure exactly what I might say now that I'm back exactly but I feel like I'd like to say a few things.

So what's going on here? A few things. I've started back into my training. I hate early season training in some ways. Boring. Slow. Monotonous. It's not so bad when you have someone to ride with but not many people around here feel like putting in 90 minutes of spinning at 18 mph. Podcasts help but... Hopefully I'll avoid the vertigo that seemed to plague me at this time last year and kept me from doing the training I really wanted to do.

I'm reading about monasticism and ancient Christian hospitality lately. Really challenging stuff. It makes me question a lot fo things about my super comfortable life. I talk about being willing to accept suffering on the bike but not so much in other areas in a lot of ways. So I'm thinking a lot about what my comfortable middle class lifestyle means. How does it bring me closer to God? How does it square with the Gospel that recognizes and respects and reaches out to the marginalized in our society? Heavy stuff.

Anyways, I'll be back soon.

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