Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve at my Mo's house, fried chicken for dinner. Say what you want for Stroud's, Hayes House, etc., I'll take Mom's fried chicken any day.


I got a trainer, a device for making my bicycle into a stationary bike so I can get a workout in even if it's a blizzard out, which of course it was. I set it up after we did the Santa thing back at my house (my year for Christmas Eve, next year it'll be my turn to have Christmas morning & day with the honyocks).



The roads were more than a little dicey. As I was getting home from the office, after binding the calendars I once again procrastinated on, right as I got to the first Gardner exit traffic suddenly slowed. As I moved over to the left land to go around some cars that appeared to be trying to stop, I saw why they were trying to stop: a big fat F-150 turning sideways in the right lane of the highway. Once the traffic that got past this slowed down to 40-ish mph, traction was good enough, so I went ahead with the plan to go to Mom's.



We were about halfway to Mom's when I realized I had been nuts to head out at all, but it would have taken just as long and been just as risky to backtrack, so...







Fortunately, besides the fact I managed to pilot my way to Mom's unscathed, after the snow started falling, traction on the roads improved quite a bit and the trip home wasn't fast but it also wasn't terrifying.







The trainer, I've already used it twice. My goal was a half hour a day minimum, because I think I can do that much boredom and that'd keep a level of activity & fitness so I'm prepared when the roads are ride-able again. Both days, though, I put in movies and got absorbed in the movie, cranked for an hour before getting interrupted. Once interrupted, it was hard to get back into the flow, but I guess if I can find enough engrossing movies, maybe I can really put some quality time in on the trainer this winter, maybe even lose some weight.