Adventures in House-Sitting

[jack_babalon]

Scored a short but sweet gig house-sitting at the Casa Gomez until this Friday. A nice break from the 'Armaghetto' for a few days and a chance to recharge my batteries.

The gig, conveniently enough, puts me at about a fifteen minute bike ride from Downtown Decatur. The main bike trail runs parallel to the old track right around there and will take you as far as Stone Mountain if you have the endurance to burn. So far I've only been able to ride as far as the industrial ghost town of Clarkston; which is about half-way there according to the trail maps. My goal (amongst many others I can assure you) is to make the ride from the MLK boulevard entrance of the trail and ride my 'Baby' all the way to Stone Mountain... and back again... before the end of the Summer. It's not so I can lose weight or get in shape (both wouldn't be bad if it happened but I've long learned to accept that I'm a 'big' guy both by genes and bad habits), but rather a self-diagnostic test of my resolve.

The next few days should be good practice for this endeavor, unless I score some more side jobs or sporadic bursts of yard work (ahh, the glorious life of the self-published author).

Meanwhile I have a lovely home, two princes amongst cats for company and a two hour home made music/image mix to keep me going on my 'down time'. Also hope to do a little more online writing than I have of late. So we'll see how that goes.

Anyway, speaking of 'lovely homes', a perennial favorite of mine...