194 Minutes

That's how long my bike ride was on Sunday. The longest ride I've been on since probably June of 2007. I'll have to go back and look, but I haven't exactly been keeping up my endurance. I really did enjoy the ride, though. I haven't been out around Lake Minnetonka for a long time. It was really nice.

I have a friend who got me a subscription to Men's Journal magazine for my birthday last year. It's an interesting magazine if for no other reason than it's schizophrenic. It doesn't know whether to be macho, sensitive, misogynist, healthy, unhealthy, vice-ridden or virtuous, intellectual or banal. It does have some great fitness routines and some really good recommendations on alcohol as related to food choices. But I can't help but notice a sense of deja vu as I read through some of the articles and particularly as I look at some of the graphics. And I'm pretty sure that a number of the articles are actually culled or condensed from other sources that they must assume the average MJ reader doesn't have time to peruse. Maybe they acknowledge it and I just haven't been careful enough to notice. I any case, still an enjoyable read.

Next weekend Deana's going to be out of town for a trip to discuss business strategy for her new venture. That's not going to stop me from dragging the kids to see some new music, though. I may regret it about 15 minutes into the concert, but hey, I'm going to give it a shot. Hannah should be tired from rehearsing her musical earlier in the day and I've been taking Aaron to Dick's Sporting Goods to go rock climbing during rehearsal, so with a little luck he'll be worn out, too. I tried it this weekend, and my wrists are still paying for it. Don't know what I did to get a bit of tendinitis going, but I think rock climbing is out for a while. I'll see if I can get a picture of him up on the wall and post it next week.