Red Dirt Harriers

So I'm watching this British comedy show Extras with the guys that created THe Office and it's chock full of great lingo like the phrase I used for the title of this essay. I spent a satisfying day out at some distant cousins house in the coutry watching a bit of the Bedlam game and tending to the various livestock and small children flocking about the place. Needless to say I am seriously thinking about purchasing a goat at this point. They really impress me with their surly, will eat anything attitude. The second realization that occurred to me while watching this show is now that I've almost become a professional house-sitter, maybe I should join the movie extra circuit to fill out my days a bit more. More realistically, one of my cousins who was in town is living in Livingston, Montana so naturally we chatted about the area and he was really supportive of the wanderlust notion to discover the place where we feel most compelled to settle. This guy really surprised me wi...

Another beer fueled night in the books. Biked over to the Library and got started on a few IPAs through the remainder of happy hour, then moved on to Optimators which was a bad idea because I ended up getting in a drinking duel with Marty. Then was prompted to go hit up a hot tub with some people, again a bad idea as when you're already drunk before entering, the steam only makes the head swim that much more. Needless to say it was midnight before I returned to the Library to claim my bike and head for the house. I think I drunk-dialed Billy G somehwere in there to warm him of my impending doom and bad decision making skills. Sorry buddy. Nice ride home though in the crisp night. I think that will do it for the Library for a while, but it served its purpose to get my mind off of the grind and induced some chemical headaches. I like to think of this phase as a crucial periodization tool throughout the year that along with fishing recharges the batteries for the more mundane tasks t...