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Why do I keep reading [or listening] to the news

I hate Mondays. Monday is a day off for me. A day off from work, and a day off from riding.

I did have a golf game lined up in Industry Hills this morning, but golf just hasn't excited me as of late, so I passed. I also could have gone for a bike ride, but I put in over 900 miles last month, and I think my body could do with a little R&R. Besides it was foggy this morning, and that never makes for a pleasant or fun ride.

So what did I do instead? I got up (after a lousy nights sleep), surfed the internet for interesting stuff (which there wasn't much of), watched some news and early morning talk shows on TV, and then just got depressed.

The ever bleak and gloomy picture[s] being painted by many economic experts is disheartening at best, and the continual bickering and infighting by our elected representatives, and others, repeating the same old rhetoric over and over again, is enough to make a grown man cry.

I really need to put a stop to this!

Work might have even been more enjoyable, if it weren't for the damn 80 mile drive.

I think I'll just go for a walk! At this point anything would be better than sitting in front of this computer any longer.
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Gerry said…
Try swimming again it really blocks out all the negative things going on in the world!
3:48 AM
Marc said…
Yeah, I could do that, but that would mean packing up my gym bag, driving to the gym, then unpacking my gym bag, and getting changed into my swim trunks. It's just so much easier to sit around the house and mope.
3:56 AM
Marc said…
I am actually!

I'm reading "Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban". The trouble is that gets me even more depressed when I think about how futile our endeavor is there. Afghanistan that is. It is very interesting though.
1:43 PM
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