another day of working on the house, 9 mile run, 24 mile ride, some pitch and chip and a bucket of balls

up at 4am this morning to take gail to the airport and now, almost 19 hours later after a very long and busy day it is time to rest up a bit.

got home and went out and ran 9 miles which actually went ok for the most part. was almost chilly and the sun coming up over the river was pretty enough. not many people out before 6am but it was nice to run and be home so early and at least some of it was after sunrise.

once home i did my little stretch the legs routine on the bike and spun 90 rpm's at a decent but not high level for 24 miles. then stretched some more and had breakfast. about 10:30am the work crew showed up and started right in working. they think they are getting close to being done and they did work on the downstairs stuff that had to be redone. but without the rest of the tile and oops, someone forgot to bring or is it buy, a toilet, "close" may be a relative term. in reality if that stuff had been here the tile would all be done and the toilet would have gone in while the water was shut off in the house. without any more of this talk, it will get done.

i spent the time while they were here working in the attic and outside in the garden and washing laundry. then paid some bills and hit some chips in the backyard. all of this on less than 4 hours sleep. then tonight i went to the driving range and did an hour of short game and hit a large bucket of balls. went ok to so-so, but i kept doing the drills and i can see some progress.

lots to do this weekend and was going to race but will skip it instead for a trip to lowe's and home depot and maybe the nursery. off for a quick look at the paper.
and on a disappointing note, like 57% of the country i too did not want the bailout bill to pass, but the cowardly congress passed it so they would not be seen as doing nothing, even if what they did was ill thought out. surprised they didn't add the bridge to nowhere into the bill-kidding of course. i am not a maverick i guess. i can see maryland from my house so that must make me a crab.

even i could not believe how against this bill i was and am and have toned down my earlier in the day anger. still time for some sleep before getting up to run. peace....