I'm doing my last trip before I get back home to the twin towns. I think I'm tired. I'm tired of: excess stress, anger, fear, stupid punks, apathetic consumers, too much unknown and not enough solidness...
I want a new book from my fave Scottish author to escape into. I haven't picked up a great book in months. I got one for Christmas that I'm looking fwd to.
I ate way too much tonight. It was Italian and it was gooood. The holidays have added some girth to my frame. I can't wait to work it off on my rollers.

Some punk honked at me when I was walking on the sidewalk next to his passing mini-van. I'm a biker, I'm used to it. But this idiot didn't look ahead to see that he was about to stop at a red light. I walked up to his stopped van and just stared at him and his embarrassed girlfriend. What do women see in boobs like that? I didn't do anything but stare at him. Was I taunting him? Maybe.

I'm in Kingsport TN on 12/ 8 and it's Bill Bryson's birthday! It's also not quite 20F! He is my favorite travel writer and the only author who can consistently make me laugh out loud in public. His book a Walk in the Woods reminds me of this pix of Neillsville WI (great book). I also loved his book on the origin of American words/ slang and phrases. He's brilliant.

I recently read a list complied of the best innovations of the 20th century and Minnesota got on there for the honey-crisp apple. An apple? Really? There are so many things that top that. How about ALVIN? I mean without ALVIN we would never know where the current resting place of the Titanic is! And without that, we wouldn't have had the movie Titanic and just how could one be expected to go on without that life-changing 3 hour carthisis (sp?)?