The Longest Day of the Year

The Devil’s music is coming to Milwaukee. Everyone is all a flutter even those who had previously declared what despicable human beings the members of The Rolling Stones have been. Not to mention that the image of the elderly playing Rock n’ Roll just looks so very wrong.

But all is not lost. Bicycling is strong in the Midwest. The Intelligentsia Cup Race Series is on in the Chicago area next month, though I am unclear as to what intelligence has to do with Chicago.

Mountain biking? WORS is in Eau Claire Wisconsin for the Red Flint Firecracker; not a race I will be attending. IMBA has put forth this trail building video. Metro Mountain Bikers will no longer be sending out e-mail notices so ‘Like’ them on Facebook so you can follow their activities.

Need a bike? Emery’s is having a big sale.

You may have seen the big bike crash in Waukesha on the news. We are in the middle of the Tour of America’s Dairyland here in Wisconsin. Tomorrow’s event will be in downtown Milwaukee at the Schlitz Brewery. Today they were at the Milwaukee Mile. And if the idea of bicycles on a race track make your eyes cross, The Milwaukee Indyfest will be here in three weeks.

My wife and I went to the high speed ferry port to pick someone up. I never thought much of the ferry and think even less of it now. What transportation station/ hub or port in this case, in the whole world over, doesn’t allow for pick-ups and drop-offs? That would be the Lake Express Ferry terminal. Note my refusal to offer you a link. Five-dollars just to park. Oh yes, visitors can park for free for three hours; after you buy a pass for five-dollars. Okay, so I have to wait in the car. Then as the passengers begin to spill out into the parking area out come the nasty faced terminal workers yelling “You can’t stop here, move your car!” as three seconds after pulling up our guest was already putting his bag in the trunk and my wife was getting in. They jumped on every car that pulled up with a relentless fury. There were no bike racks either.

So now, even if I do one day become filthy rich, I will never take this ferry nor recommend it to anyone. There were two types of people disembarking. One, awe in their eyes, who took the ferry as a novelty. The other type, noses in the air because they are just so superior to everyone else.

Yes we went fishing. After church in Madison on Sunday I took my wife to a secret fishing spot my grandfather used to take us. An historic property of a distant relative via my maternal grandmother. Extremely friendly people and conversation accompanied our fishing. I caught a small bass and bullhead, both of which I released of course.

Earlier in the month we used our numerous gift cards to see a movie; “Jurassic World.” It was packed even on a Tuesday night. They only had tickets available for the 3D show. People are starving for good entertainment, and this was a movie which was the same as the previous two (or was it three). Same super smart dinosaurs, same stupid people, same miraculous results.

Can you believe it has been forty years since “Jaws” was first released. Search for it in theatres. It really is one of the best films ever made. Two might not have been as good of a movie but it was even more horrifying, and then…

My wife was complaining the other day that the dishes weren’t washed. To make up for it I decided to bake her a cake. You should have heard here surprise when she came home.

Something went terribly wrong with the frosting. I am still researching the best cake recipe. “You haven’t finished.” she said.

My diet is still on. I found I can get by with less sleep on this diet without losing focus …or becoming grumpy as can happen at times if one hasn’t slept. I expect my weight to start going down again any week now.

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