Dangerous Nights

My wife loved her riding outfit I bought her. Pretty colors with flower patterns on the long sleeves. Have to find time to get out riding more but the days are getting short and I have too many tasks before me to be efficient. A real overload. Nice to get out and do some yard work. Getting everything ready for Winter. With the poor production of my small garden plot this year have to look to add good soil and fertilizer.

Down in Kenosha, more than a week ago now, I came across this bunch of brainless bloodied zombies going around on their bicycles. (Sorry for the picture quality.) Yes, all October people enjoy the Halloween spirit. Obviously going from bar to bar as a group I notice few to none had lights on their bicycles. I see a lot of people on bicycles down there all the time. Maybe 1 out of 25 actual have lights. Many are ride on the wrong side of the street or even weaving back and forth (not referring to this group). Often they wear dark colored clothes. Now, ... I was in Racine the other day just after dark and saw many bicyclists. I would say 9 out of 10 had proper lights.

That same day a beat down started right behind my parked car. I jumped out with my wife's cell phone to take a picture which scared the attackers off. Some may say the camera is mightier than the sword but obviously it was my domineering physical presence. OK.. it was the camera. Sort of the concealed carry concept to reduce crime. Yeah, you don't need the government to put cameras all over the place to play big brother with their populations, like those poor saps in Britain, just an involved public. We saw a big brawl one night, some months ago, when a guy showed up with an metal pipe. Was on the phone to 911 before I ever thought of taking a picture.

After my Eco, ultrasound, I was having intense pain in my ribs. Thought the procedure may have aggravated a possible slight fracture from my last crash. Talked to a nurse on the phone and she said she never heard of that. She thought my positioning for the test may have been the factor. Checked the Internet and found the opposite to be the case. Perhaps a small blood clot let loose as my arm healed and circulation was restored. I say that because after I took an aspirin, a blood thinner, rather than an Advil and most of the pain 'moved' and then vanished. Still hurts a bit. See the doctor for my test results next week.

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