(it’s only 61 degrees here now and it seems chilly and i had some hot chocolate and i’m still cold).
i just wrote to the owner of the bike touring company, “Hooked on Cycling,” in charge of our scotland trip. i told him that we had a great time, and then decided to add his company over there on the right under “blogroll.”
and now, thinking about it, i realize that most sites have about a bazillion links to other places, but i never even add anything new. so maybe this is the start of a whole new expansion!
or not.
i’m also seriously thinking about actually using my editing software to cut together some of the video of our trip…but on the other hand maybe it would just end up being much too blurry like the other videos now look because…i don’t know why…but it irritates me no end to think that i’d make a video and then it would look bad.
oh, and one more thing on this very chilly day…last night i finally realized the benefit of taking all those weightlifting classes for such a long time.
we went to dinner at some friends’ house and they had kids and a big jungle gym in the yard, and a zip line from the top of the jungle gym down the yard to a tree. the very enthusiastic four year-old showed us how you could ZIP down the line and it did look fun but scary.
finally i decided to try it. i had to grab the bar and hold on and then would rocket down the zip line. i climbed up and was hanging there and deciding that there was too much chance of hurting myself and the father kept saying CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR BODY WEIGHT? and i kept saying I DON’T KNOW! but then i finally did it.
and the supporting the body weight was no problem at all. i did scream all the way down the line because it was scary, but also fun. the little kid, Lincoln, was there at the end and he kept screaming at me THAT WAS FUN! THAT WAS FUN! and i agreed with him.
plus i didn’t injure myself at all. there is a kind of long bloody but shallow gash down the side of my leg now, but maybe that’s from something else.
it’s nice to know that all those classes weren’t in vain, besides the Very Critical increased solidness of my somewhat brittle bones.
ok then,
sunday afternoon grace.