I just been reading over my last few blogs and I found it hard to stay awake. I have fallen into a rut of epic proportions! All I've been writing about is work (yuck!), my bad knees (yuck!) and the freaking weather (no control over that...it's hot). Why didn't one of you tell me I was this BORING!? I can take it. I'm a big boy. The reason I started this adventure was to be able to relate some interesting stories for you guys to read and for the most part I feel that I was holding up my end of the bargain. But since I re-injured my knee and the weather jumped up over 100, I been making excuses (mostly to myself) to become one with the couch and become a slave to the electronic brain sucker (aka the television set). The "boob tube" had me in its grips and I finally regrew a pair (sorry for the vulgarity) and got my lazy ass out of the house. When I started looking forward to going to work (heaven forbid!) it set off the alarm bells that something needed to be done. So for the past few days I have been up and venturing out into the blazing sun with the golf clubs and the bicycle, trying new courses (playing the same places contributed to the rut) and riding for hours exploring my neighborhood. There are so many trails to ride and the canal path is right next door and the increased riding has been just what my knee needed (hard to say fast--knee needed). There are so many rider friendly advantages here in Arizona that I feel guilty not taking advantage. And it sure feels good to work up a good sweat.
I was listening to radio today and had to pull over because I was laughing out loud. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the "mayhem" commercials put out by Allstate insurance, but we have one now for Arizona. "I'm the Arizona sun... when I'm not burning your retinas or melting the asphalt, I'm beating mercilessly on your car, bringing the temperature inside your rolling oven to a balmy 150 degrees. And while you're struggling not to have heat stroke as you pull out of your parking space, you don't notice my latest gift...I have turned your seat belt buckle into a molten hot branding iron. As you flinch from the pain you accidentally floor the gas and ram into a Pontiac Sunfire...and if you have cut-rate insurance it may not cover it." Could be the funniest (and the truest) commercial ever. It's a lesson you learn once and it's a painful one. Parking is a science out here and you need to carefully plan your spots and use your head. Another of the perks of living on the outskirts of Hades...
I renewed my lease in the apartment here in Tempe...there was a rent increase, but it's still cheaper than moving...(I did extensive research). Tomorrow is a new golf course and the best news is that it is June...which means I can play 5-6 rounds of golf for the price of one round back East. And this year I get to play for free on my birthday because it's on a Thursday and I don't work on Thursdays... Speaking of June, Happy Birthday to Denise, Deidre, and Toni Ann and there are more to come (myself included)... If all goes well, I have an adventure planned for next week...I will be "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, hiking through the Petrified Forest and maybe going to the Four Corners... Enough of this everyday crap. I didn't move 2500 miles to do the same things I left New Jersey for...Let the games and adventures begin again!!!!
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