Ah, yeah

Woke up around 4am after getting to bed around 10pm. Road my bike over to Greenpoint to look in after E's cat while she's away. Weather wasn't too cold, it was dry, the sun had this spectacular hue of breaking through many day's gloom and it was happy to be able to stretch it's arms. While huffing up the Williamsburg Bridge, I had one of those 'Ah, yeah' moments -- this is why I ride, this is why I must get Edie on a bike as soon as can be negotiated with B. Being able to read what the weather is saying, observing something as pedestrian as the bridge and every rivet looking like a story, the trains whizzing by and the sparse fellow pedestrians on the bridge, it was a feeling of connectedness that is hard to achieve without recreational medication. Its a feeling I had every day on my cross-country bike trek. It's something that is a goal to achieve as often as possible.

BREAKFAST: 6am, good yogurt with homemade vanilla extract, honey and cashews, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 8am, sour cream donut, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
While in Greenpoint, I stopped in on Peter Pan, an old-style bakery on the business strip there. Not as good as Donut Plant, but it is a top example of the old-school style. My donut was slightly crisp on the outside, tender and rich on the inside, and the flavor of the sour cream shown through. Nice.

LUNCH: 1:15pm, Stouffer's French bread pizzas, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, mac n' cheese, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 8pm, pint of bad ice cream, 5 cookies, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
In one of those moods.