Happens to me every year. I just get to feeling totally overburdened by lifes little trials and tribulations.

My bride and I have just cleared several little life hurdles, hurdles that at the time seemed major to us. Though any one of the challanges would seem trivial to most, the collective weight of them all at once has taken its toll on us both.

We did fine and are both all right and we'resquaring off to meet a few remaining challanges before the year is over.

I actually think she handled the past year or so better than I did. I have become short tempered and quite testy but her patience has kept our home life quite tolerable. Physically I am very, very tired. I actually started to feel obligated to ride my bike to work these past few days, as if I hadn't already had enough to deal with.

So today I pushed back. I actually drove the S-10 to work last night and I fully intend to drive it again tomorrow. I think I'll be biking a bit less for a spell. Bikes are and always have been a part of my life, but sometimes I try to squeeze too many activities into too little time and the result is me becoming stressed out and frustrated. If Cranky ain't happy, nobody's happy. If you don't believe me just ask that poor lady in the SUV.

So if I don't show up for a spell don't fret none, I'm just kinda sorta regrouping a bit.