Day Forty Five

Well, I had a pretty damn good day today. I got up early and got moving. I felt like crap when I woke up, but I think it's because I didn't do well with my mask last night. I woke up without it, so I think I slept pretty bad. Took a shower and headed out at about 6am. Got to work and took off on the bike immediately. I got the first two laps out of the way and my legs got past the fatigue soreness and the rhythm started. Before I knew it, I was 6 miles into it and stopped to adjust my shoe. When I checked the telemetry on my phone, I realized it was about 7:15am or so. I figured I'd ride for another 20 min and then hit the shower and change my clothes. So, I started a timer on my phone and THOUGHT I hit the start button. On one of the laps, I noticed one of our mechanics pulling into the parking lot and I know he doesn't usually get to work until around 8am, so I looked at my phone and to my surprise, it was 7:57am!!! Holy crap, how far did I ride?!? I went 12.4 miles! Holy crap, longest ride yet. If I hadn't realized it was 8am, I would have kept going. I felt great! So, I rode back over to corporate...took a quick shower and got dressed and went to work.

I had a great day working and had a pretty good day conversing with my friends at work...one of those "Fuel each other's fire!" kind of days. :) She knows who I'm talking about. LOL. After lunch, our owner came walking across the parking lot. He is pretty amazing. I gotta explain something about him, when I was 17, I was under a Cessna degreasing it with a bottle of degreaser, a brush and a hose and I was covered in grease at about 8pm and Bernie came out of the office(he was working late that night) and told me to get out from under the plane. I was certain I was in deep shit. He handed me an envelope and told me to make something good happen out of it and told me I had qualities that reminded him of his late son. I didn't open it until I got home, but he awarded me the scholarship that they always give out as a memorial of his son. I never had applied or anything...I was dumbfounded. He's always been one of those men that I look at and think "Some day, I want to be just like him and be as honest, caring, hard-working, and generous as he. Anyways, I haven't seen him in over a month...I don't think I've seen him since I started this new lifestyle. He walks in and jokingly says "Who's the skinny dude in the corner over there? Doesn't Mike work for us anymore!?!? Huh!?" as he was kind of laughing. I knew he was messing around. :) He came in and patted me on the back and he said "I saw you riding today, and you keep doing what you're doing and everything will fall into place. You're doing great as usual and you're gonna be very happy!" That was probably the best thing to happen to me this summer. I just couldn't do anything but smile all day long.

I drove home and enjoyed the air. I had the windows down, sunroof open and the music up. We had Jersey Mike's for dinner and watched a couple of episodes of House and watched the new episodes of Modern Family while doing some work for my second job. Now, it's time to do some laundry, take a shower and go to bed. Can't wait to sleep. Believe it or not, I'm not really tired, but I'm going to go to bed anyways.

Hope you're all having a good night! Goodnight all...Catch you on the flipside.