DDT (12)
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Sometimes ya just gotta go...
Winter Springs, FL - Occasionally...
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« on: May 01, 2020, 07:06:52 AM » |
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Obvious, you’d think, that the appropriate tool would be more likely to produce a better outcome. For example, if one wanted to saw boards, then a saw and not a hammer should be employed. If one were to intend to pound railroad spikes, then a tack hammer would certainly be less effective… It’s that way with other choices with which we are confronted, too, and any dummy can plainly see that…
Now, there will be times when the best tool for our intended purpose is not available, so we are compelled to improvise… to make do with whatever is available; of course, there is always the other option of simply postponing our task until… I’m in that sort of predicament now, as I compose this little lament… I know what I want to do… what I need to do… but that option is not on the table at the moment, so… I must choose from among the lesser desirable alternatives as best I can…
Since returning from the west just over a month or so ago, I’ve made only a few ‘maintenance dose’ day rides… all the while yearning to be back out meandering around hither and yon… Dang! It does beat a blank, of course, but not by much. Yeah, I know most find themselves in that very situation most of the time, and I also recall how that was my fate once upon a time throughout most of my own life, as well. I did manage to break free of that, however, only now I find myself right back in that same boat… I do protest greatly, don’t I?
Well, dang! I just realized something I didn’t enjoy observing, so I paused to have a ‘heart-to-heart’ with myself. I’ve become entirely too comfortable with bitching about things over which I have little to no control! Time to suck-it-up and enthusiastically take advantage of what is available, rather than sitting around complaining about what isn’t… Sheltering-in-place is obviously taking an emotional toll on this stranded trekker…
Well, the right tool for that is unavailable, so I’m going to choose to adapt and improvise… I’m going to substantially increase the ‘maintenance doses’; in frequency, that is, since there are limits on the duration of those open to us. Although we have ridden nearly all of the roads in this area over the years, long absences producing intervals of several years since many of those ribbons of asphalt have last been traveled will offer at least a wee bit of novelty and discovery possibilities… When life gives you lemons…
Oh wait… I just remembered a nasty complication! I sadly noticed on our latest abbreviated trek for BBQ, that those pesky promiscuous little lovemaking flying insects peculiar to our corner of the country have made their bi-annual appearance again already… Those devilish critters played a prominent role in the bestowing of my ‘handle’ back in the day… a long story I’ll save for another time…
Still, there will be that to consider and influence any dose remedy selections for the next few weeks… Oh my, if it ain’t one thing, it’s another… No information as to whether or not those ‘natural irritants’ originated in Wuhan - either laboratory or open market… That theory hasn’t been advanced yet, to my knowledge anyway… Also, no connection to POTUS and/or the Russians has been claimed, either… so far…
Talk about a slippery slope! I no sooner realized my slip downward and tried to put a smiley face on things, than… Yep, I went right back to whining again! Apparently that is quite habit-forming, so I’m going to need a… Hey, I know! I just thought about the best tool there is for reversing negative thinking!!!
DDT
P.S. Thanks, y’all, for bearing with me on this… I obviously needed to work through some issues, but now I think I see a light…
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