Friday is upon us! And it going to be nice, warm, temps in the mid 60s (F), but definitely not a precursor to the weekend, which will be filled with overcast skies and drizzly, showery storms that are more of nuisance than anything else.
The weather will have a dampening effect on the garden center at the large, brick and mortar, orange home improvement retailer where I spend time on the weekends. One thing I have noticed is that usually around this time of year, when people begin getting their refund checks back from the government, business in the flooring department picks up. This year there hasn't been much of a change. Sure, we're a bit busier, but not like in previous years. I'm betting that those big heads down at corporate failed to predict this and gave us a flooring plan that's unreachable.
I got a 10 mile bike ride in yesterday, in Japan, on an old railway line that's been converted to a cycling, walking trail. The route was very flat, boringly so. I did not make it one of my favorites and will probably never ride it again. While it was nice to get in the distance, I would have rather spent the time climbing a few very small hills. That was not the case.
While Biden was giving his State of the Union Speech last evening, I was at the movies watching Dune 2. It is, as so many people are saying, very good, the kind of spectacle movie goers haven't seen in a long, long time. That being said, I must also say that if you've read the books, you know liberties were taken in the writing of the screenplay. That being said, the movie is still amazing.
