When:  Wednesday–Barely in the late afternoon – 2/21/2018
Weather: Rainy, but I found a window of opportunity
Observations/Thoughts

Today, I was not going to walk again.  And, compared to many of my walks, today was barely a skip thru the park.  I did walk despite a couple of factors.  The first is rather obvious.  The second is God’s sense of humor.  As I left work, I said bye to everyone until I went out the door.  I dodged raindrops as I navigated my way to the car.  I was quickly heading down the road toward home…then I remembered I didn’t clock out.  I went back and clumsily placed my finger on the time clock.  (Cold fingers are not as effective as warmer ones.)  I began the process to head home again.  This time I made it farther before the problems began.  I saw the “Work Convoy” trucks in both lanes ahead of me.  I realized they were going slow, but I was oblivious to what their presence likely meant.  When they stopped ALL traffic, I was the 5th car behind the truck in my lane.  (My math isn’t perfect here, but the couple minutes I lost going back to clock out are the likely reason I got caught in the delay.  How long of a delay?  It was 20 minutes or so.  I ended up getting home a half hour later than I normally did.  I was able to eat my apple and practice relaxing.  The cars who tried to sneak by on the curb lane did not have a very relaxing time.  The frustrated motorists they tried to jump in front of realigned their cars to prevent the car from gaining an advantage.  My wife would be content to let people like this back in.  “Niceness” is not in my obvious DNA.  Eventually, my niceness can come out.  Trying to convince me you think you are more important than me on the road is typically not the way to accomplish it.

After getting dinner figured out (I was boiling the beans on their way to becoming refried beans.), I did sneak out for the walk.  The umbrella was working from nearly the beginning.  When it wasn’t helping me stay dry, it was providing protection from the yard of 5 rabid dogs.  (There was a fence.  They still really wanted a part of me!)  The paths were all flooded.  Because I don’t walk in heels, my shoes and socks both got wet.  It was quite obvious on the bridges and along the paths–the water had been higher than it was now.  I put a check in the “Did you take a walk today?” column.  I wasn’t asked to rank the quality.

The next couple of days are also calling for rain.  Grateful for a good, new roof.  All these days of rain bundled together get a little tedious.  As long as I don’t melt, I will try in squeeze in something to allow my shoes to talk to the sidewalk.