I went for a ride tonight. I do that sometimes late at night. I just get in the car and tool around for an hour or two on the nearly empty streets, listening to the radio.
After a busy day writing software, it helps to concentrate on something else for a while. I'll drive to an area I haven't been to lately and explore the streets. Or I'll pick a destination like a new restaurant I've heard about, just to give me somewhere to go. I'll focus on how the car steers entering the turns, and how it accelerates coming out of them. Every once in a while, I'll pick out another car on the streets and follow it for a little while, in a non-threatening manner, being careful to lose it after a few turns so the other driver doesn't start to worry.
For no particular reason, I haven't done this since before I started dieting. That's probably a good thing, since getting a bite to eat was always on the agenda. As it is, I spent the whole drive tonight convincing myself that it would be a bad idea go get a bag of slyders the night before my weekly weight check.
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