The dog gets restrained

Ok. It is 1:23 AM and I just hit a wall. I need to go to bed and get some sleep but not until I put up a post or two. I almost didn't go on a bike ride tonight, because I really must have this job to the printers before I leave for Nuiqsut Tuesday morning. But last night I didn't take my bike ride for the same reason. Then, after I went to bed a little before 1 AM, I found I could hardly sleep because my muscles missed having pushed the pedals - they felt awful. So tonight, I went. I was going to keep it very short, just to Abby's and back, about 3 miles, but when I reached Abby's I had to keep going so it turned into six miles or so.

I don't believe this dog would have bothered me. I've been seeing this dog for years, it's never bothered me before, but the man it owns was worried it might, so he pulled it to the side. I pedaled on by. I'm going to bed now. I don't think my muscles will bother me tonight. That doesn't mean I'll get a good night's sleep, but I can hope.

Shadow me on last night's bike ride

Self-portrait from my bike ride last night. I saved it for this morning so I could leave the bubble shot on top for longer. It is Wednesday, the day I supposedly have set aside to do my blog in the old-fashioned way – with multiple images from my "real camera," not Instagram. But I don't know. Today and for the rest of the week I will be preparing my Uiñiq photos in CMYK. Come tonight, I will not want to breakaway to make a blog. But I can probably still quickly shoot at least a couple of iPhone pictures during the day, Instagram them and post them both to Instagram and my blog in this way, without losing much time.

I fear I am hooked on Instagram.

Four Oahu beaches: Wakiki - seven bikinis in a row; Turtle Beach - Shadow Me touches a turtle; Bonzai Pipeline - nice wave and a dog too; Sunset - parrot on bike ride, surfers ride big waves

People were surfing at Sunset Beach, too. They say the waves are supposed to get bigger over the

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Chillin' down; Tim, Tim and the cowboy cup; kid bikes across pond

Yes - same old, same old: Got up this

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Shadow Me takes a bicycle ride - and that means... !!!!!

.... Yes! It means I took a bike ride, too!!! After 3.5 months!!! I had been thinking about it, wondering when I would be healed enough, wondering how I would know?

And then, yesterday, without planning to, I just picked up my bike, swung my leg over the seat and pedalled away...