Better off mowing, dirty or clean

So yesterday I decided to go to the after work club social run at the running store.  In theory it sounded like fun, do a short run (3 miles in my case) and then enjoy free food and beer for an hour or so.  Ali was there as well to handle membership duties as one of the purposes of the event is to drive membership.  She brought a laptop with to work directly with the membership database which I had just finished moving to a new location during the day.

So I returned from the run soaked with sweat and headed inside to see how things were going.  Ali was struggling because she wasn’t familiar with the new membership set up.  I wound up shadowing her the entire time, trying to work through certain problems.  Some of them were solvable, some of them would require me to do further digging.

Well the end result was I didn’t eat anything besides a nacho chip or two and didn’t even get a sip of free beer.  To be honest, there were too many people there, at least for that space.  All of the food was gone (besides nacho chips) in short order.  By the time I pulled out a little after 7:30 I was aggravated and hungry.  I would have been better served just going home and working on mowing the back of the property like I was thinking about doing.

Combined with other things from my Tuesday including work and other issues it added up to just be one of those shitty days.

My spirits were lifted slightly when I got home when I saw a box by the front door.  It was my replacement washer fluid reservoir for the Tacoma.  The factory tank is brittle, cracking and leaking. I hope to replace it soon.

I have an odd question to ask.  Do you go to bed dirty or clean?  For a long time I was a dirty bed person, meaning I would take a shower first thing in the morning but not before bed.  Sometime in the last 15 years I converted to a clean bed person, always taking a shower before going to sleep.

I don’t recall what was the impetus for the change but now, I really have no understanding of why you would want to go day to day any either way.

I mean think about it.  If you take a shower in the morning, by the time you go to bed some 18 hours later your body is coated in the sweat and oils that the human body secretes, not to mention what ever other auxiliary dirt, microbes, residue and bacteria you managed to pick up during the day.  Why would you want to lay in a bed and grind that shit into your sheets and pillow? Depending on how often you wash your bedding, this can attain varying levels of grossness.

On a typical weekday I take a shower at night and then the following morning I will just bend over the tub and wash/wet my hair.  It works for me.

Which are you, dirty or clean and why…..