Friends

I seriously forgot about the blog! Work got kinda busy and sucked up all my brain space. Lord I hate work! I hate it less when I'm busy but I still kind of want to be done with it. I have enough money to retire...but I can't access it for a few more years. In a few more years will T**** and cronies have f'd up the economy so much that all of my investments will tank? I'm a super cautious investor but who knows if that will make any difference! 

My work is so dull. I'm taking forever to do a close line-edit of a very long document. I'm failing to do background reading for another project where the topic is of the "important but dull" variety. 

Last weekend--no weekend before last--I went on a group bike ride in the world "Day of Remembrance" for victims of traffic violence. Good cause. Decent ride. I ended up riding with a friendly woman who is a world traveler and more serious cyclist than I, but we had a good convo and it was fun to spend time getting to know a stranger. Same thing happened the last time I did the same ride! The two people couldn't have been more different and that was a lot of the fun. I also took myself out for lunch after the ride. Ended up at a second-floor almost hidden Japanese restaurant where I'd been one other time! It was very good and I ate every bite of the katsu bowl (not the bowl itself). Then I biked around a bit more and realized I was near a well-reviewed French-style bakery and figured why not? As I was locking my bike, I started chatting with a guy and we just talked and talked. He was going to the bakery too, so we ended up hanging out and talking for probably an hour (?). We were both in relationships so it felt very easy and friendly. Kinda wish we'd exchanged info, but how odd really that would've been. Still, it was a great day for talking to new people and I miss those chance encounters I used to have when I left the house more frequently.  

Grateful for: meeting new people.