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While in Gainesville, I got the privilege to go bike shopping with a friend for her first bike in a very long time. I alwasy hear all of the bike veterans talk about how excited they are to get people out of their cars and on to bikes but now I fully understand. It felt really good to encourage foot power. She ended up with an 89' Schwinn Le Tour, for a very good price mind you. Sturdy frame and a surprisingly good wheel set for an 89, crank and cassette need some work, but over all a gorgeous bike. I thought about offering to clean it for her, getting almost twenty years worth of grease and grime off of that bike got me really excited but I just didn’t have the time. The bike shop we went ended up buying from was really interesting; It was "dino shirt day" so all of the "employees" were wearing hand made dinosaur shirts. I convinced my friend to buy cute red cork bar wraps to match her frame. The girl at the shop who wrapped the bars was really cute and spoke with her dog as if she was fully convinced he would speak back. She explained to me that if he could talk, he would be the wisest dog I could ever, hypothetically, meet. Said banter almost made me blush.

Life is a test and I got bad marks, Now some saint got the job of writing down my sins.

The word “sin” is derived from a Greek word that we don’t have in English, it’s an archery term which means “to aim for a target, but miss.” Obviously, “sin” isn’t the word Jesus or Abraham used, they spoke Aramaic, but the New Testament was first written in Greek. Plato, of Athens, read this term in the Bible and interpreted it to mean, just as no archer misses the target deliberately, man doesn’t sin willingly. I think this is quite a righteous idea, but not clear-cut. Plato is wiser than I could ever aspire to be but I think he was being too naïve. Years later, Augustine, a great thinker from Hippo, Africa, said quite the opposite. Augustine was known as a Plutonic and was the first to integrate Christian and Plutonic beliefs, but Augustine didn’t see eye to eye with Plato on this matter. Augustine said that man sinned, simply, because it felt good. Man has a perverse relationship with sin. He recalled a story from when he was a boy: In his neighbor’s yard, there was an enormous pear tree, his neighbors would pick and sell the pairs and use the money as their primary source of income. Augustine recalls that the pears were green and he wasn’t very hungry but even if he was, he actually didn’t like pears, but he stole one anyway. Knowing that the act was “wrong,” Augustine said man sinned, simply for the veneration of sin.

MICHAEL JORDAN TOUCH DOWN PASS

I just got back from one of the most relaxing weekend of my life. I slept a total of 6 hours in 3 days, ate nothing but pizza and bbq, (nonalchoholic) rage 24/3, macked on some honeybabies, rooftops at 4am, hit up a countless number of bike shops, chilled at wayward, CLUB CONTACT, hung out at the swamp, took some ill pictures and so forth.

my gators at the swamp (click for actual image):



I took a photo for kunle too: