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How's that for a short title, eh?
I'm just trying to better budget your time, you know.   ;)

It's Sunday morning, the first day of going back to Standard Eastern Time.
Now, the sun rises about 6:15 am instead of an hour later, but it also means it sets at about 4:39 pm today, too.
Compromises, compromises.
Where are those longer days hiding at?

I didn't go for a Pachaug ride yesterday, even though I loaded the bike and riding gear up and trucked it out to jerk as usual for a Saturday morning work-freebee-and-then-go-riding gig.
The weather was good for it, but, I gradually started feeling less than enthusiastic about going by the time I got done with jerk.
Why?
Probably because I just wasn't in the mood for it by the time I finished jerk, and also due to a side helping of same-old-same-old, the feeling of having already logged over 1,000 miles on those trails so far in 2012.
In fact, that's a VERY conservative estimate on mileage, as it probably is more like 1,500 miles just this year, so far.
I easily could have gone, but, would have I enjoyed it if my heart wasn't in it?
Not to a large degree, and doing it just to say I did it is a hollow feeling.
So, I brought the bike home without even having started the engine while it was gone.
Too bad, but, it pays to listen to your conscience.
There is always tomorrow, I thought.

Well, Sunday morning, AKA tomorrow, is here.
Will I ride?
I'll know sometime later, as right now, I don't feel any different from yesterday.
It's a 50/50 shot.
The bike is ready and waiting if I suddenly get the urge, and I do mean urge.
I will go if I really want to ride.
If not, it will be a day of rest.

In other news that's not so new, I was getting a small kick out of reading more dirt bike opinions from smart-ass guys on message boards.
The question was why one brand of bike is supposed to be much better than others, and this always brings out the best one-liners and the guys who seem convinced they know how to get their views across in such a way, that all the world is a fool if they don't sit up and take notice.
Pretty funny stuff that I can't take seriously because I know most guys can't be bothered to even wash their bikes regularly or know how an air filter works and what is required of it to work properly in the first place.
So, out of 13-or-so pages of this stuff, about three or four posts seem reasonable to me.
That's out of about 150 posts, in other words.
Pretty good percentage, huh?

-John