Establishment

The hardest day of any enterprise is never the first. It may take a long time to get to that point, but on the first day, there's the newness, the satisfaction of accomplishing or beginning or organizing whatever it may be, e.g. planning a get together in NE or doing a game night or organizing a hiking trip. I think of this because this morning on the bike was awful. I slept poorly. I took a slightly different route to see if it would be any better (Kellogg to John Ireland which becomes Summit right next to the Cathedral instead of Kellogg to W 7th to Grand). It was not better. At 6:15 there's not much traffic, but there are still lights and cars to navigate around, whereas Grand is just a smooth uphill ride. I don't even think the grade was different, I just believe it was the starting and stopping. Nonetheless, it had me wondering, what the hell am I doing riding my bike this early. There's a part of me that is still flirting with moving my work schedule since I know at some point life will intervene. For example, I'm curious to see how I feel to jump on the bike on Friday morning. That one could be interesting. Or it could be that the other things in my life will subtly shift. Maybe I'll get lucky and there will be more weekend shows instead of weekday shows. Or maybe I'll just become one of those people who enjoys getting up at awful times like 5:45 am. I doubt that one will happen, but I certainly can do it. Usually only in the presence of nothing else to do (for example, on a backpacking trip, where I got up about 6 am every day. Of course, I was asleep by 10 pm too) can I pull off a feat like that. But I want to keep doing it. So instead of making excuses for why I can't do it, maybe I just shift my work schedule around. Because I'm tired of making excuses for why I cannot do something. There's always a reason, but normally, there's a good solution at hand or it's something unnecessary that I can do without if I bother to think. I was going to pick up more Powerbars to have something to eat in the morning, but I forgot, so I just got a box of granola bars. Problem solved. That's my take away. Obviously I'm not going to bike to work every day for the rest of my life, or even the rest of the summer as I'm sure there will be occasions where it just doesn't make sense. What if I interview for a position? It would be difficult to ride to work. Sure, if I got some advanced notice I could make it work, but the last time they sprang an interview on me (literally, it was 1 or 2 days after they scheduled it, which I didn't expect). So I'm not going to make some foolish promise. But what I'm going to do is get some sleep because if I am tired. And hopefully, unlike last night, my body will go along with the program and I'll get more than 6 hours of sleep. And I will ride my bike. Now it's a novelty, but I hope to establish it as a fact some day.