and just where the hell have you been, mister?

Ten days. That must be some kind of record - I'm not even sure if I went this long without posting while we were gone on our bike trip. So, just where the hell have I been and why have I been neglecting the site for so long?

Well, to explain, I've spent eight of last ten days working closing shifts at my hellhole of a day job. Which, after being gone for 30-some days on a beautiful & challenging bike trip along the pacific coast... is... I'm not sure how to best explain this - you know the saying about "a frog in boiling water"? Not to sound over-dramatic, but my routine and life now aren’t drastically different than before I left - but now I feel shaken-up, awake, aware, dazed, somewhere-else, all at the same time. I get anxious when standing in one place for more than an hour. I haven't seen a sun set since San Francisco.

I think over time you become numb to your unpleasant or unsatisfying routine - your dead-end job doesn't annoy you as much as it should, your lack of exercise [both mental and physical] doesn't sound as many alarms as it should. And [where I'm going with all this, is that] the bike-trip slaps you around a bit - wakes you up, causes you to pick your head up and look around for a change.

Anyways - by working eight days in a row, I feel I've missed out on the most important aspect of the bike trip - the after shocks. The reflective period.

The last ten miles of the trip - the Golden Gate, the "rental car fiasco", the five hour car ride that lasted ten hours, the day and a half off before my never-ending shift... it's felt like it's flown by in the same time that it just took you to just read about it.


So - I'm getting side tracked here - where was I heading with all this rambling? Well - aside from the day-job, I've spent almost every last minute of free time designing and building a website for some video services I used to do when I lived back in 'Ypsi'... DVD authoring, editing, graphic design, etc... I feel that I've been in a constant state of "broke" since moving to Hollywood - and the bike trip has helped light a fire under my ass; it's time for some changes to happen.

Okay, next post you’ll have some pictures from the trip – I promise – they’re all ready to go, I’m just trying to decide the best way to share 600-some pic’s.