Today was a good day.
The morning was mine, and I'll not share it with any of you.
The afternoon, I met bagman for a sandwich. He always eats at the same place each Sunday, he tells me.
We were supposed to meet Sasha for lunch, but she flaked (is she breaking up with us?) until much later.
Lunch with bagman was good. We talked about his work, and some hardware stuff. I confessed to being a tremendous hardware geek, and how sad it makes me that everyone else has their music/politic/combat/conspiracy partner, and i have no one to talk with about computer shit.
He also told me about his night the previous night. It sounds like he had a few drinks and some good laughs, but not much else happened. Of course, I understand, since he's still not off the J wagon (which is headed for a bumpy ride, as well all know!).
Because it was a beautiful day outside, and neither of us had urgent plans for the afternoon, we took a walk over to a local park. As we strolled leisurely down the path, everyone was biking/jogging/dog-walking past us. I commented about how awkward that made us look, and bagman agreed (awkwardly).
We walked around for a while, and I reiterated that bagman needs to go into the breakup with his cards on the table: he's the bad guy, she's the victim, and he's really, really sorry. Bagman said he's new to all of this, which I asssumed to mean "....huh?"
Then, we talked a little about motivation. I suggested that the best way to motivate yourself to doing things you want to do is to break your daily/weekly pattern up. If the first thing you do when you come home is turn on the TV and start cooking dinner, then you'll be stuck in that rut for the rest of the night.
Bagman responded "That's easier said than done."
Eventually Sasha calls us. I unintentionally miss her call, but I'm glad I did because that bitch deserved it for ditching us. She brought us ice cream to make up for it, though, which was very nice of her. Thus, she was forgiven.
After she arrived, bagman and I spent some time eating ice cream and telling Sasha how attractive she is. I could tell it made her feel less hungover, and that's a good thing.
This is where we first start talking about getting into shape. Bikini season is coming up, you know, and we all wanted to look good so that we could catch a tan and not feel embarassed.
After we were done with the ice cream, we started walking. We found a trail to walk on and, holy fuck, we walked and walked. Sasha and bagman almost turned around when we came to the first hill, but then they decided to stick it out and see where the trail took us.
Here's where it took us:
To get this picture, I had to tell Sasha to put her CIGARETTE behind her back. Then, I had to tell her to stop giving the finger to the camera. Then I had to tell bagman to stop putting bunny ears on Sasha.
...buncha kids, I tell ya....
At this point, the sun was going down rapidly and we'd already been on the trail for an hour. Sasha suggested that we turn around, and so we did.
Now, on the way down on the trail, we'd taken things pretty easy. But on the way back, I decided to take us down the dry riverbed which ran close to the trail. It had a lot of mostly flat rock (limestone), and so I thought it would be easy going.
This was only true for the first 500 yards. Then, the limestone became broken and jagged. There were also some potentially homeless people hanging out on the riverbed, and I think they scared Sasha. We kept going, though, and left them behind.
Bagman thought that the trip through the riverbed was much like parcours. Sasha had seen a movie about that, and was very excited by the concept.
Once we climbed out of the riverbed, we sat for a moment and rested. That's when we decided to go get some dinner.
After about 20 more minutes of walking (how did it take us an hour to get in, and 30 minutes to get out??), we make it to the car and head for dinner. It was a very nice dinner, filled with conversation of STDs, bagman's sex life, and corn.
I wish I could write down all of the funny shit that was said, but I can't.
Anyway, Sasha and I are going walking again on TUESDAY. She said she won't flake this time.
Si, are you taking any bets on that one?
Sunday, 04/05/2009 - Austin, TX(Read 7467 times)