Day 14

It was good seeing old friends in Wisconsin.  10 hours in the saddle to get home.  Nothing particularly interesting in Illinois and Indiana.  Just point and go.


The end of my journey lacked any sort of dramatic flourish that I had imagined along the way.


I had imagined that my girlfriend would want to see me.  Perhaps I would stop by her home on the way to my house to receive her welcome.


She had made other plans.


The journey was an act of independence.  A challenge to myself.


Challenge accepted.


I wrote the account to remember the moments of the adventure.  The hot, the uncomfortable, the beauty, the failures and the excitement.  It gave me a chance to ponder and write in my own clumsy way.


The relationship with Barb would end in less than six months.  I found someone in her that was more independent than myself. 


She had other plans.

In the moment

Sometimes it is good to not overthink

Motorcycles assist in this process.  The focus is the moment.

On a long stretch the mind does wander.  Sometimes it may take a whole tank

Nothing in this life is permanent

So it goes 

Working for the man

The silly season is upon Liberty Mutual again.

Their goal is to make it to the top 100 places to work.  It ain't happening. 

Time to reorganize.  That should help.

Apparently the SVP in charge of claims did not like it and bailed.

More productivity, cheaper employees.  They have discovered that people will do my job at a pay grade lower.  Saving money for the stockholders, oh wait, we have no stockholders.  Perhaps the dividends will go up? Oh, they do not pay dividends.  Perhaps the corporate suite can buy another jet or invest in a new country. 

My 6th reorganization in 30 years. 

Stay tuned.....

A Nietzsche thought

"It is precisely we solitary ones that require love and companions in whose presence we may be open and simple."  Nietzsche


Relief, acceptance, to be open and accepted. 


Nietzsche, a philosopher and perhaps a loner.  A man who would rather dance than think..  ""I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."  But alas, that may be the curse of a rational mind. 


To dance, to be open.  To have that simple acceptance.  Somewhere to share my crazy thoughts as well as the simple ones.


Let's not overthink this.  SWM seeking love and companionship where we might be have fun, be open, and be simple.


I think I may be in a good place with my latest companion. 

Thought for the day

The Onion strikes my health again

No good deed goes unpunished.  My cholesterol is down.  My weight is down.  Eating better.  Getting regular exercise.  As James Brown would say, I feel good.

This has resulted in another trip to the hospital.   Had another stent and they used some balloons and razors to clear up another blockage

Man’s Genetic Predisposition For Heart Disease No Match For 10 Half-Assed Push-Ups He Does Couple Times A Week

CHICAGO—Despite afflicting his father and numerous members of his extended family, local man Josh McCalister’s genetic predisposition for heart disease was no match for the 10 half-assed push-ups he does a couple of times a week, sources said Wednesday. “Three...four—ah, Christ—five,” McCalister, 38, said to himself, counting off the short set of poorly executed push-ups that were swiftly undoing the susceptibility to coronary artery disease and arrhythmia that was encoded in his very DNA. “Nine...almost there...nine and a half—agh, close enough—10!” Although the push-ups he currently performed already ensured that he would be spared the deadly disease that had been passed down unimpeded for generations, McCalister had reportedly vowed to get to 20 within the next six months

The joy of dating- The truth about being single

https://youtu.be/fmE4NU4ljUg


Too true!