Month: October 2005

It’s starting to get rather chilly. This morning, on my ride to work, I began to shiver.

“Hmmm…”, I thought, “it seems to be getting somewhat cold.”

Almost at the end of my ride, I started up the steep slope of the mountain only to feel the temperature drop yet again. “Did I say somewhat cold? I meant pretty cold.”

It was 44 degrees.

I think I’m glad I was already planning to stop by the motorcycle shop this evening to buy a heavier winter-ish riding jacket. I really hope they have warmer gloves! I might have to invest in some thermal underwear, too…

Now that I’ve gotten the splint off my wrist, I can now exercise my hand and do things that have for the past three weeks been rather difficult. Like riding the motorcycle. Today, I took my longest ride since the accident – 43 miles. It’s the usual commute to my customer site, so I’m familiar with the drive. However, this was the first time that I’ve ridden that far since the accident.

And, of course, it was also raining…

And I’ll do it again when it’s time to go home from work…

This morning, I got my wrist x-rayed again and it appears that my fracture is mostly healed. I say “mostly” because we could barely see it to begin with and you never know unless you do a bone scan… that sounds scary – “bone scan”…

Anyway, I can ditch the splint now and start to strengthen back my wrist and regain my range of motion. I was going to ride my motorcycle to work this week, but I will be in Houston for the funeral and therefore unable to ride my bike. Ah, well. Guess I have to wait a week for that. Probably for the best anyway.

Today, my last grandparent, my mother’s mother, passed away. She lived a long life and we are all saddened by her departure. We are also happy that she is now with God and will have all her questions answered and her eyes opened.