since I am so cusp-y, I'll post both

ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I meditated on your immediate future, I
got a vision of you making your way through an obstacle
course--scurrying across booby-trapped terrains, shimmying through
tunnels, climbing over barriers, leaping across ditches. Curiously,
there was not the least bit of stress etched on your face. On the
contrary, your eyes were wide and your expression was exultant. You
seemed to regard this not as an ordeal, but as a welcome opportunity to
expand your resourcefulness.


TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1953, Ena Bridge got engaged to Tony Baker
in their hometown of Kent, England. But they broke up and lost touch
with each other until recently. Now they're engaged again, planning to
go through with the marriage they shrunk back from 52 years ago. I
regard them as your good luck charms, Taurus. Soon you, too, will be
returning to the site of a long lost dream, or revisiting a desire you
abandoned years ago, or exploring a potential union you gave up on in
the past.

... as both seem kinda appropriate. Though I haven't quite managed the exultancy yet. I'm working on it.

lots of birds

Nice day for a bicycle ride at lunch time, as it was still pretty overcast, but not actually raining. The air was rain washed clean though; smells were clear and hung in the air; particularly the scent of eucalyptus. The path is well enough cambered that most of the water had flowed off to the sides, so I didn't get wet while riding (save for a pleasant sweat, LOL).

I rode past the little lake/reservoir, then back again, for a rest along a shore before pressing on back to work. There were an extra TON of birds out (and no people, amazingly)! There is a tiny little island just off the bank I was on; lots of birds encircled it, many standing on one leg. A bunch of seagulls were visiting among themselves out in the water, far out from the ducks. Lots of geese lately, too, Canadian I think, all dark heads and nearly checkered wings. Also saw a bunch of big white birds... not egrets... maybe pelican? Something related. Weird not to be able to say for sure. Anyhow, they were cool.

I have got to get some kind of athletic strap on thing (hey!) for my ipod. It has now fallen from the bike twice (I'm placing it in the hang-off-the-center-bar triangle bag). Breaking the ipod would be a Bad Thing. I haven't even learned how to put the tunes on shuffle yet!

Speaking of bikes... for the first time ever, I attempted Black Friday shopping (admittedly, a new phrase to me, though as a former bookstore employee, I am very! familiar with the phenomenon). Pretty much a flop. Had to go to two Wal-Mart stores (yes, I visited the Evil Empire) to find the bike that was on sale (I need a bike for home)... and didn't like it when I found it. But they did have a not-on-sale bike with an aluminum frame and one spring, so I got it; pretty much the best of the inexpensive bikes I've seen (now I'd like to get the Scott's Valley cyclery to make me a comfort bike, but...). So, huzzah for that. I also visited the downtown Ace store, wanting some nifty tools... yet the lumber store turned out not to BE an Ace store, but only to carry Ace products. So much for that. Lacking breakfast, I gave up and went home for food. And a nap.