Yesterday I contracted a cold that has taken me off my game. Yesterday was a recovery day and I hung around Cleveland.
I parked in a grocery store parking lot when a pick up truck pulled up alongside and a guy stuck his head out & stated asking questions. This went on for awhile when, John, asked me if I wanted to come to his house for dinner. I am developing a fuller self and maybe a little more confident. I said yes and John gave me his address to gps from.
I drove to Blossman’s propane because my spitter valve was now spitting vapor indicating I am running low on propane. The owner whom I talked with before was there again. We picked up where we left off in understanding the design of my system. yes, I needed propane. He said that he was glad that I came back as he wanted to talk to me. We never really got to his subject but we did bat around some religious thoughts. I believe he was asking me to go to church w/ him on Sunday.
While I am not the devil child, religion and I are not congruent. There are bodacious churches here. I do not want to get caught up in a religion discussion or conversion attempt if I say I am against religion. This affects my acceptance of friendship offers.
I went to John’s house for dinner. Huge house. Real nice man and father. Excellent stay at home dad. He wants to do an adventure motorcycle ride from Alaska down to Tierra del Fuego. We got to talking about what it would take for him to make this happen. He really wanted to hear my stories. His trip will happen. We touched on religion. He has done several missionary missions bring western view of deity to indigenous people who had their version of deity. great how western white man’s view destroys indigenous beliefs. How can 1 be more “right” than another. What gives 1 a”right” to destroy the other? Oh, both he and his wife are engineers but she went back to school to become and oybgn after their 2nd son was born w/ Downs.
Watched the GU / UT game @ Chillies. Only Zag fan but I was left alone as most people were hardly into game. GU won in OT breaking UT’s 37 game home win streak.
After game drove back to same gravel parking lot I used last night. Pulled in and there were 2 semis, one w/ a refer. Oh great, that means the engine will turn on & run off & on making diesel engine noise. It was too late and I was too sick to drive off to find another place. The cold really makes my body ache. I was shivering cold under the blankets. When I crawled out from underneath the covers I found the van to be fairly comfortable. But I was so cold. Refer woke me up every now & then but I really wasn’t sleeping anyway. Truck left during the night. No more noise.
Slept in as best I was able to. Day 2 of cold is different from day 1. Going to drive back up Ocoee River to Thunder Rock XG and try some walking to recoup some strength.
Ralph invited me for a Thurs. afterwork ride of Raccoon but I passed because of cold. Asked to ride this weekend perhaps. Forecast is calling for freezing temps @ night.
The snow story from Spokane is daunting: record breaking amount & then rain to sop everything.
Parked in same grocery store parking lot writing this. Several rigs have slowed to look me over but none has stopped.