"Told You"

I am determined not to make my recent mistake again.  Today I made a visit that I have been putting off for years, always finding myself too busy.

The death of my friend last week moved me to action.  Tante (Aunt) Mien is my Mom's only surviving sibling (out of 22!!), and she lives only 30 minutes down the road.  Shame on me for not going sooner, but now that I've done so I will go back for sure.  

Tante Mien turns 85 next week, still drives her own car, and still cuts her own grass!  And she reminds me so much of Mom I could just sit and stare at her for hours.

I also had a good day on the computrainer front.  I am very proud to say I figured out the programming thing without John's help.  Of course I did get a little Internet help but that only proves that John is not smarter than the world wide web after all.  Of course it did take me 2 days of surfing to find the answer that I'm sure Odd John had in his brain, and available for immediate recall.   But it don't matter.  Like I told you the other day, I'm still working on that masochistic behaviour.  

All that aside I was delighted with my successful creation of a 33 segment interval program, and even more delighted to report that it worked flawlessly!! I took great pleasure in riding my new course, because all I had to do was press start, and then ride for 88 minutes.  It was very interesting trying to cheat it.  If I tried to ride hard it would take the computer about 5 seconds to figure it out and reduce the pressure.  If I continued trying to go hard, I would soon be spinning out of control,  Conversely, if I tried to slow down it would crank up the resistance to the point where I was barely moving my legs.  

Overall it was just so much less stressful not having to pay attention.  Very, very cool!  One other fringe benefit is that it will not let me over-do my workouts, something I'm often guilty of.

And once more back to my ancestry.  This is a pic from a Dutch newspaper about the farm my Mom grew up in.  What you see in the foreground is the barn where she learned to milk cows.  

On the far end you see a raised portion which is the attached house: a common setup in Holland of the time.  Apparently the barn portion has been deemed some kind of historic building, one of the oldest of it's type in Europe.  They are in the process of stabilizing the structure from the inside, with the intent of turning it into a museum.  Pretty cool eh?

Computrainer ride 88 mins

...this is freakin brilliant...tell me it's not!!

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."---Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love

Peter