Rt # 510

First full week with El Uno.
While I'm not moving any faster, per se, it's a smoother ride for sure b/c the bike is built better, of better, lighter metal.
I can feel the wear in my legs, surprisingly. My guess is that it's a combination of a first full week, change in weather, and minor run-downedness. That's all good, though, b/c as "fun" as this might be in the summer, it's hard work in the late fall and winter. I'm wearing new Thinsulate gloves I just bought that work really well and I wish I had brought them yesterday.
Finally had breakfast again this week @ the house and took the recommended two shots of DayQuil. Listening to Chickenfoot III for the first time in a little while.
Read an essay in Dialogue, the periodical that I rec'd from Molloy's Philosophy dept. It was about how Nietzsche and Shopenhauer were on two sides of the same coin if we live in a world without God, and it concludes that the process of thought itself is what makes us human and is the journey each of us is on, in itself. The essay was good for someone like me who is not fully indoctrinated -- it gave a good history of both philosophers' beliefs and used solid historical examples. Any more "scholarly" and it would probably have been worthy of a national mag, but might get too wordy and tough.

Here are my thoughts on a couple of minor things I've written about:

1. OWS protesters seem to want someone to come out and take the fall and/or come clean. The person they want is "The Man," best characterized in the underrated 2002 comedy "Undercover Brother." In the film, we don't see The Man's face, but it is confirmed that he is an actual individual; an average white man in a suit somewhere in his early 60s. He seems to embody a generic businessman who has made money off the backs of people he doesn't value. There could be a "Man." If he's down here on Wall Street, I'm doubtful that he's going to uncover himself. Another personification has been done twice very well by Michael Douglas, and who could forget the Duke brothers from "Trading Places." The point is, they want someone to get his comeuppance, and since they haven't singled out any one person (they've sort of picked the President), no one is going to volunteer to plead guilty to moral and ethical crimes against society.

2. The Manhattan Mini-Storage sign I wrote about yesterday: I think it's an insult to them both, that Romney and Obama are unpopular, but it's still a dumb slogan. Real easy to step up to the plate and not swing at anything, or better yet, just hit foul balls.

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