Mid-Summer Blues

Ah, I dunno. Perhaps blues is overstating it a bit. But to say I am completely “out of it” is a pretty accurate assessment.

And to make matters worse: I have already lost whatever train of thought I might have had when I opened this blog page!

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Oh, yeah: Cubs win! Cubs win! Again! Three in a row, baby, including 2 out of 3 against the St. Louis Cardinals. And yes, I just so happened to be in attendance for last night’s game ... most of it, anyway (the lack of sleep from which is part of the reason for my current out-of-it mental state) ... enough to see the Cubs come back from a humiliating 3-0 deficit (on 3 first-inning homers by the Cards) and take a 4-3 lead later in the game, at which time my Cards-fan friends were suddenly ready to leave (yeah, the Cardinals tied the game in the 9th and then the Cubs won it on a Neifi Perez grand slam in the 10th).

Ultimately, however: Who cares about baseball, at least when your team is 12 games out? OK, maybe it is now 11.5 games out or something like that, but still. Talk to me when they’ve got it down to 3, and maybe then I’ll be interested.

Maybe.

(I feel as if I am not interested in anything at the moment. Which makes me quite less than interesting, in my opinion.)

Something about watching a recap of Lance Armstrong’s finish yesterday makes me think I might want/need to start riding my bicycle again. I have no excuses, really, other than the old standbys: “It’s hot out!” (yes, it has been hot, but it will cool off, eventually) or “I don’t have anyone to ride with!” (honestly, I haven’t looked all that hard to find someone) or “I need a new bike!” (all I really need are new tires — actually, only new inner tubes, which I bought today at Wal-Jack) or “It’s hot out!” (see above).

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Maybe all I really need is a break.