A Positively Poetic Priest

In a wild fail of a day, we spent six hours in the cool fall Pittsburgh not going to the Zoo, but we did end up at Bicycle Heaven, bike shop and museum. It was quite the show. 

Today has been a long day. We rode the BikeMS Cook Forest River Ride (57ish miles) this morning.  This is a picture Jimmy took of me having just passed through the orange balloon finish line.  Between the two of us, we raised almost $400 for the National MS Society. This is our goofy team photo.    And this is me while trying to make dinner after the church service in my dress. 

  It was another cool morning (47 when I went biking at 6 am!), so I added a pink long sleeved wool shirt to the dress and gave it some color.  In biking with merino wool undershirts and long sleeved jerseys, I have found that fog tends to bead on the outside of the shirt. It is kind of funny to take part of the fog cloud with you as you speed along. I look forward to the day when someone makes a merino wool padded bicycle short for actual cycling. 

“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.” - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy We all have a need to get from point A to point B sometimes. If point A is home, we need food, we need clothing, we need to go to work. All of these things require some kind of transportation. And even if it isn't you that gets transported, the items in question need to be transported since they don't all originate at point A. It would nice if our houses could produce all the goods we could possibly need, though...