Still tired, van prep, sad, pic

I still have not been able to kick this low energy, tired feeling.  It starts hitting me in the afternoon and by the time I arrive home I feel like death, I’m ready to go to bed.  Ali insists it’s because I push myself too hard, not enough sleep, etc.  I might agree if I was doing something significantly different than I always have.  For the past decade or so I have pushed myself as hard if not harder without feeling this way.  For awhile I have been telling myself I need to have a testosterone level blood test taken.  A lot of what I am feeling are symptoms of low levels.

Last night I did some more van prep for the trip.  I installed an antenna and FM transmitter booster for my Sirius radio.  Satellite radio is a pretty awesome thing on a road trip.  Without it you wind up channel surfing constantly as radio stations come and go out of range.

I saw that my mom posted on Facebook that a friend of hers suddenly died.   She had lung cancer but was not really experiencing many problems up to this point and was feeling more or less ok.  In fact she had just booked a cruise and was looking forward to enjoying whatever time she had left.

Mom had just talked to her friend a couple days prior so it made the reality all the more shocking.  One day you are interacting with your friend, talking about going out to dinner and the next, just like that, she is gone.  My mom and her also were the same age, born only one day apart as a matter of fact. That made mom feel her own mortality as well.  I talked to her on the phone for awhile last night even though it was tough for mom to talk about it without crying which I understood.

Mom’s friend was a HEAVY smoker which surely was the cause of the lung cancer that was her ultimate demise.  I have seen first hand multiple people I knew personally contract lung cancer in the last 5 years.  It is a vicious, cold killer, a form of cancer that you really can’t beat.  Of course I can’t help but worry that mom, with her lifetime smoking habit, is destined to go down that same path.  I can only hope that she manages to beat the odds.

The Flyers managed to even up their playoff series somehow after being down 3-0.  I haven’t seen a single game, I just have seen the box scores.  If they manage to pull off what would be a miraculous comeback and eliminate the Bruins I might have to actually tune in.

There was a photographer wandering around the triathlon on Saturday morning.  He snapped this picture of Todd, Ali, Michelle and I.  Based on the grip I have around Todd’s waist you would think we were a couple.