the amount of rain we have been recieving over the past month is nothing short of amazing. after how dry it was last year, i guess there was some catching up to do.

this path i take to work is like a little shortcut through a flood plain that has a creek running through it. when i was going to work today, it wasn’t raining, but when i made it over to the trail, it had been incorporated to the creek that runs by it. it’s pretty wild to see that the trail looks just like the creek because of all the sand that has been deposited on it. i felt like i was white water rafting down the creek on my bike, slicing through the rapids and vainly trying to pedal as the water rises way above my cranking level, soaking my feet as i went. i was also competeing with ducks for the shallower reigions, but not surprisingly, they made way for me.

while fun, it is destroying my bike, and if it did dry up i’d be able to really get a move on with this new road bike i got. definatly need to coat my bike with WD-40 on a daily basis. at least it’s not that cold out.

anyone been paying attention to the news? well i have, and I tell you what…

it’s nothing, really. i’m still waiting for my being aware of global events to somehow include me in the global thater, but it has still eluded me. some perspective of the world and it’s conflicts, but nothing that rocks my point of view on life. i’m not saying that news is unimportant, just that it feels like another way to spend time, like a hobby. It takes a little time to be well informed about issues, and that time could be put towards anything. i think it helps me to listen to this kind of stuff becuase it’s something interesting to do at work. it’s real live entertainment through discussions between people that are at polar opposites of an issue, and they hardly ever agree. both are right, and yet they can’t be, right? one is just more right, depending on where you hear it from. it all just smacks of excessive acadameia so i feel like i can listen in without actually being involved. much like TV, and most of my life.

i’m a casual observer; highly educated, severly underinformed and detatched. dangerous to say the least.