End of the bloody summer, already??

Wow, has the time flew by.. Then again, I know that it has been a very crappy summer. Start it off with the traditional start of summer.. Memorial Day weekend.. (the weekend with Jenna) There were high points, and there were low points on that.. All in all.. good weekend.
The next weeks were good, until friday the 7th of June, when my tranny died on the way to see Larry. One best friend moves away, car having stroke.. Not good..
The next week brought me away from Arsenal.. Woo-hoo.. Then Helene gets a weird phone call Sunday morning..

Helene: Hello??
Me: Hey, it's me.. We have to have a panakhilda for my car.. As it died last night
H: K.. See you in 30 minutes..

My thoughts were.. Well.. O.k.. I can ride my bike around.. And that's exactly what I did.. Especially to the Green Fest show on July 7th. Happy Times, right??

The church picnic was wonderful, and as John W. said.. "I wanna do the bar next year.." Great food.. Great Fellowship.. Great weather..

Then.. the bottom drops out..
July 21. Have final meeting with Rebekah.
August 3. Get bumped from Schaffer to Faison.
August 9. Bike gets stolen from outside of Downtown library.
August 10. Cancel Pens Tix.

Let's break these down:
The Meeting with Rebekah came, and much to my surprise.. She had been wanting to "off-load" me since she wanted to go to Chatham.. (She has much more potential than she or her family thinks she has.. if only she would go somewhere where her creativity wasn't stifled, instead of turned into white wonderbread, she could do great things.)

Getting bumped sucks.. period!

Losing the bike. It was the worst thing that could have happened to me this summer. I enjoy riding.. I can't explain it, but I do.. The feeling of going for an evening ride was exhilarating. It was fantastic. I'm too emotional right now to go into more detail.. but to say thatlosing the bike led to..

Canceling the season.. One one hand, I am saving $$, and I don't have to worry about finding a consigliatori for the other seat.. And I am freeing up nights.. And it's not like I'm NOT going to go to any games this year.. In addition, I have Wheeling and Robert Morris games that I could attend. And they will be here for the next 30+ years.. On the other hand.. well you know..

Life is getting better, at least, on the short term.. Now.. to find something I lost.. Where did I leave it?

~R

P.S.--> We never did have that panakhilda.. did we Helene?? :-)