Reading this story makes me so pissed off at some of the efforts of some people.  Sure, it is a great concept, but seriously.  Why does he put so much effort into helping another country when children in our own country don’t have schools to attend??  I mean really.  Let’s be every one else’s savior while people in our own country suffer.  Who cares about the children of Pakistan??  What about the children of Philadelphia, or New York, or Chicago, or any other town in the US???  Why would we want to help them out?  It makes me sick to my stomach….

Today has started off on quite a rough patch.  First off I must apologize to the folks of the North Conway area for the rain.  Let me explain.  Ever since I got my driving license and got a car, every time I washed it, it rained.  So yesterday I had off of work so I figured I would be a nice guy and wash and wax Kelly’s car.  Then to top that all off, I got new windshield wipers for my jeep.  There is no possible way that is wasn’t raining today.  Back to why I am angry.  There is nothing worse than getting woken up by someone saying…”it looks like it’s going to rain and your jeep has no top on”.  So I go wake up and struggle to put the worn out top and doors onto the jeep just as it is beginning to rain.  Then I go inside and load up the dish washer and I stab myself with a knife.  This so far has been a crappy beginning to the day.  Plus with the rain, no commuting to work by bike because I dont feel like sitting in my office all wet.

Something else that upsets me.  This morning I was at the post office and and this huge fat lady (400lbs pounds) was parked in the the handicapped spot with a handicapped plate.  She waddled out to her car completely on her own.  When did being fat consider you handicapped?  Instead of being able to park close, shouldn’t they be made to park as far away as possible so they can maybe drop a few pounds???

I think I need to move south.  This cold weather is just wrong.  Today the high was 10 degrees before the wind chill, and I have no idea how cold it was with the wind chill.  As I write this now, I see that it is -0.5 before wind chill.

I didn’t ride tonight.  I was just to depressed or upset or whatever you would want to call it about the cold temps.  I had the conversation with Kelly yesterday wondering if we are wasting good years of our lives living in this cold.  I really don’t like the cold.  Of the 16 or 17 hours of the day that I am awake, I would say my fingers and toes are numb 13 of those hours.  Its no fun.  Sometimes I just day dream about living somewhere like south Cali and riding the bike all day.  I don’t think I would ever really want to live in southern California (no offense to those living there, it is just too far away from my family and such), but somewhere like North Carolina wouldn’t be bad.  I would need to wear a pair of tights once in a while, but not 2 pairs from November until April.  But we won’t move.  I like my job too much and Kelly informed me that she likes the snow too much, so here is where we shall say.  However, if my boss said pack up your crap, we are moving this operation to warmer climates where you can ride your bike outside 12 months of the year and not get frostbite, I will have my junk packed up in less than a day ready to go.

My back is finally feeling good enough for me to swing my leg over a bike and of course it gets freezing cold and drops an expected 20 inches of snow on us.  What kind of crap is that?  I am laid up in the house all week not able to ride and it is 50 degrees and now that my body will let me, it snows 20 inches.  Stupid snow.  This week is supposed to be in the low 30s so I have a feeling it won’t be melting anytime soon.  I hope that it is warm enough for the roads to be nice and clean in the next couple of days so I can at least get out on my lunch break or something.  I’ll say it again, stupid snow.

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Today was a commute and did a nice little recovery/preparation for tomorrow.  I am planning a 40-60 mile ride tomorrow all depending on the temps.  As of now, it is scheduled for a high of 24 with some snow, so I’m not all that amped up about going out in that weather mostly because I cant find my good winter gloves and balaclava.   My plan is to just head out, and when I can’t stand it anymore, come back.  Pretty simple plan.

Speaking of cold weather, I have something that I need to get off my chest.  My fiance has now been terribly sick for the past week and I have figured out why.  She is currently working at a preschool with a child as his aid, and she told me today they have a 45 minute recess everyday, plus a 30 minute recess before school starts.  Now, that is 1 hour, 15 minutes that the children are outside.  Last week, I don’t really recall it being much higher than 15 degrees outside and these supposedly educated school teachers are give preschoolers 1:15 outside every day.  What goes on with these people??  Umm hey, you see all those sick kids?? Ever think its because they are outside for an hour everyday in no doubt negative degree weather (with the wind chill) everyday??  Seriously, those people need to be smacked in the head.

Why is it always raining here in the northeast?  Why can’t the sun shine just a little?  The rain is starting to get on my nerves.  I don’t like riding my bike in the rain…