Yesterday was a great birthday. After I went to school, I got a few cards and small gifts from the kids. They’re so sweet!  Then we had a nice steak dinner at home – a rarity with the prices for Korean beef.

Today, I got out and put some miles on the new bike. I let SaTang run alongside me for a while but she could only manage a mile or so. We went around the neighborhood  a few times and then she pooped out and wouldn’t budge from the park across the street. At least not until I said she could go home, and then she promptly got up and trotted off to the apartment. I merely let her inside the stairwell and then went off for a long hard ride. When I came back, all sweaty and deliciously tired, she was waiting faithfully at the bottom of the stairs for me. I went back upstairs to shower and gert ready for work and she crashed. She’s been been sacked out on the sofa ever since.

I rode quite a bit back in Texas the last year or so I was there. I haven’t ridden like that since. It might take a bit to work up to that level. Today was good, but it ain’t Texas – flat and lacking good hills. Here it’s just the opposite. Hopefully, it won’t be long before I work off some of this gut I’ve acquired eating the good food my wife makes for me. (It’s HER fault! Yeah, that’s it!)