Morning has not begun as planned. In fact, something occurred on the bike on my now-shortened path to the station that has never happened in the 4 years since buying it -- the chain came off the gears. Not 3 blocks from the house -- I suppose I hit too many patched potholes. Took me a few minutes to get it to re-align. This of course prevented me from boarding the train at Oceanside but not the one at East Rockaway. That's right, I was able to bolt over there (carefully, though) and unintentionally frighten an old lady (with an "excuse me!") as I ascended the ramp there. This wasn't the first time that's happened.
My hands were filthy (ring was unscathed, thankfully) but I was able to utilize the functional bathroom sink on the train and get a lot of the gunk off but there's still plenty caked in to the grooves of my fingerprints.
USA is sponsoring what seems to be a small concert hall along the water -- will have to look in to that so I can try to score some tix. Last night I saw "Catch Me If You Can" on Broadway and it was fun show. In the past 7 days I saw "Spider-Man" "House of Blue Leaves" and the aforementioned. I'm very fortunate and extremely grateful since I paid for none of those tickets and were able to bring people who genuinely wanted to see the shows.
I'm reading Spoken From the Front edited by Andy McNab which is about actual British soldiers who served in Afghanistan from 2006-2008. I began reading it on Memorial Day but it's quite engaging since it's interviews with the same 20 vets. These people are tougher than I will ever be and I will always try to live up to some sort of expectation because of it. I know a couple of guys who served in Iraq and they were already great guys before that and now I look at them with a hell of a lot more admiration because they aren't just touting that accomplishment.
One guy told me once at Croxley's that he admired me because I was able to do stand up (he had seen me perform when I had terrible allergies at the NY Comedy Club 5 yrs ago).
I responded:
"Thanks, but are you telling me that you can run in to a foreign land with a gun, knowing full well some of them want you gone one way or the other and sleep at night but you can't do 7 minutes of dick jokes in front of 15 strangers for no money?"
The answer was: "Yes, that's what I'm telling you."
Today I realize I don't have headphones so there's no music to accompany the trip but it's beautiful outside and I don't mind the commute this morning. Plus, though I love the metal, I'm sort of wearing it out lately.
I'm wearing a self-made tank top from an old company volleyball shirt -- I will quickly throw on a shirt before getting in to the building as to avoid smarmy comments.
I saw the same ginger guy from a few weeks ago this morning and he is one cut dude. I was able to regain control of my eating habits yesterday, which is good because Sunday and Monday saw me at my worst and thankfully I ran Sunday morn with the Lizard and worked out hard Monday morn and yesterday morn before work. The TOBAY is in 12 weeks and I'm doing all right -- not great since I haven't swam but I am performing sets of a dumbbell pushup maneuver that is simulating swimming motions. My running is good since I've got new shoes and the biking will be fine. I'm still a bit sore from Monday but it's nothing I can't handle -- later today will be another run.
I hit every green light today and feel pretty damn good. I'm ready for anything you throw at me today.
Thank you for reading.
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