Good Friday

Easter is weird.

I mean, how do we go from a man (son of god, philosopher, spiritual leader, take your pick) being put to death on a crucifix and then supposedly rising from the dead two days later to save all of humanity from the sin of being human (or something)..how do we go from that to Bunnies that carry baskets of dyed chicken eggs, and brunches of glazed ham, and cartons of marshmallow peeps?

And whats with Easter being on a different Sunday each year. Who decides that anyway?

Speaking of religion, which I shouldn't because I will likely offend, but even after 8 or more years of roman catholic bible pounding, no one could ever explain what it meant to be the son of god. With the greek and roman gods, it was pretty clear. They had little god families. God husbands and wives, and sometimes mortal mistresses and sons and duaghters and all the family baggage that goes with that like jealousy and protection. You could picture them sitting around their god family table on the top of some mountain and eating grapes and stuff.

But the bible god is not like that. He or she or the entity doesn't have a house in the clouds or a dinner table or a wife/husband. So I never could understand what it meant to be the son of that. And no one could explain. Not even Father McGuiness who usually looked like he drank too much of his own namesake.

And don't even get me started on the holy ghost. But my visions as a kid whenever I made the sign of the cross and said the holy trinity, was some old dude with a big beard, some adult hippy looking guy with sandals, and casper the friendly ghost. Because I figured that if a ghost was part of all this, he was at least friendly.

What does any of this have to do with biking? Its all the crazy random crap that ran through my mind during my lunch ride today. All alone, on trails I have ridden before...the mind wanders. Sometimes afterwards I can't even remember where it wandered.

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This afternoon I made a quick dash over to Target to get a head start on necessary supplies for our booth at Sea Otter. Here is what I bought:

2 packs of AA Batteries
1 Extension cord
1 big box of Pepperidge Farm goldish (cheese flavored)
2 Cosmic light up hula hoops
2 strands of door beads from the kid's room section
1 bubble machine
1 gallon bubble juice
6 strands of cosmic beads necklaces
2 multicolored stunt dance ribbons
3 bags lollipops
1 kid's hello kitty roller disco shirt size XL

I hope we don't lose our non profit status....

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I was a complete goofball spaz on my ride today. Couldn't ride a rock to save my life. Took three tries to get up this little grunt I have been doing without problem lately. Fell over just straddling my bike (not once, but twice even). Almost fell while trying to take a Lauren'esque self portrait. And ran into a fence while looking at a bunch of firefighters.

whatever.