tryin to catch me ridin' dirrty

-Pics from yesterday's ride, beautiful day in the ol' Upstate NY. It's nice to ride on roads without tons of traffic.
-Had my first beard trim done by a barber. It was sweet. If I could figure out how to shave with a straight razor without slitting my own throat I totally would do it all the time.
-It has been so nice to just relax this past week and a half or so. I am feeling more relaxed than I have in quite sometime.
-The adult choir sung "America the Beautiful" in church today; I had to leave during it. Church is not the place for patriotic songs at all. There are plenty of venues for that, not the church. It was kind of a bummer to see in my church at home since they are doing some awesome stuff, it just seemed really out of place, got me.
-I head out to Michigan tomorrow to begin the big move: exciting!

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- School is finished for the year, sweet.
- Went out to Michigan for Miriam's graduation, it was an enjoyable time. I ran the River Bank Run 25k while I was out there. The first 3 miles were awful but then, like so many other times, I took a poop and it was awesome from there. I rediscovered that I do, in fact, enjoy running.
- Jane and I started out for a planned hiking trip on Thursday but after one day in which 15.3 miles took us over 12 hours because of blowdown, snow, and covered up trails we decided that what we really would enjoy at this time of life is some good old R & R at home. It was a wise decision. The day we hiked was wonderful but when you're hiking herdpaths without designated trail markers and there is tons of blow down and the trail is half covered with just enough snow to be annoying it can tend to slow you down. You would think Jane and I were cutters if you didn't know we were hiking because our arms and legs are so torn up.
- I've read 3 books since school finished: Love in a Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Catfish and Mandala by Andrew Pham. Garciam Marquez is an absolute genius. His lyrical writing is amazing considering it is translated from Spanish into English and still is fantastic. I can only imagine what it is like to read him in Spanish.
- I'll be moving out of my parents house forever in a little over 2 weeks, I am excited about that. It will be nice to actually live near Miriam.

they should take this beat and make a rest in peace shirt of it

So I haven't written anything on here in a while, so here I go:

- I saw a Jeep Cheeroke with a bumper sticker on it that said "Love your mother" with a picture of the earth; obviously a pro-environment sticker.  What was funny is that it was on a Jeep Cheeroke, they obvious did not realize the irony of that sticker when they put it on there.  Also funny was a Mercedes I saw a few weeks ago with a bumper sticker that said "Buy Local Everything."  The irony in that one is of course the fact that it was on a German made car in the US.  I like things like that, they make me chuckle and make me happy to be so enlightened.

- One more final tomorrow afternoon and I am done with middler year of seminary! Can't wait.

- Thursday, it's back out to Michigan for Miriam's graduation, quite looking forward to it.

- Today was the last night of youth group for the year, pretty sad saying goodbye for the summer to many and goodbye to a lot of seniors.  I am really happy to be working there again next year.

- I got nostalgic about camp yesterday and bummed about not being there this summer.  I know it is the right decision and I will be glad of my choice come mid-summer.

I'm out.