[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ron]
On a lighter note, we must set up a meeting this year...

[Arlo]
Absolutely. Boxers is one of my favorite places in that area, a 
frequent road destination. I'd be happy to buy you a stoudt or two. 
BTW, I saw Social Distortion in Philly a few years back. Great show. 
And their cover of Ring of Fire is phenomenal.

My bike is in its winter-home back home (near Pottsville). Wasn't a 
very good riding year for me, between my mom's surgery, work, weather 
and what not, I ended up riding less miles than I have in years. Last 
year I delayed storage on it until around this time, and let me tell 
you I had the _coldest_ ride of my life, a half-bottle of Jim Beam 
and sitting on a coal stove and I was _still_ cold. So this year I 
took advantage of the warm weather a few weeks back and took it down 
then. It was funny, to relate this to Pirsig's rain-ride described in 
ZMM, that on that ride down last year, with flurries in the air, I 
saw people staring at me in their car's as they passed looking at me 
like 'what the hell are you doing on a bike in this weather". Like 
Pirsig, I was sure I could not answer them.

Also, you, DMB, Ian and Joe made some insightful and interesting 
comments I'd love to reply to, but have to digest this a bit more. 
Don't take silence as anything other than my thinking a bit before replying.