HAPPY 4TH OF JULY to all you Americans out there. If you are not American then feel free to join us in celebrating. Today is actually the first time in my life that I do not have today off…kinda strange. But I have made arrangements by working from home and having Top Gun play in the background…what a great movie…and she just lost that lovin’ feeling. Anyways, Barbie and I are looking for fireworks and such but no luck as of yet. We are heading to the American Bar/Cafe this evening to try and celebrate with people…although I don’t know if they have anything special planned for the occasion, but we’ll have a good time. So…enjoy your holiday and don’t forget to have an extra bbq’d hamburger or hotdog for us.

So I get up this morning at about 6am so I can do some training before I head to work. I slacked off yesterday mainly due to the rain, and today was going to be my “make-up day”. First I wake up with the intention of doing some swimming followed by a 8 mile run, then I realize I don’t have time for all that if I am going to leave work early to get home for our “Date Night” this evening. So I decide to just ride my bike to work (about 18 miles), and then I will ride home followed immediately by my 8 mile run…which basically just leaves my swim training for the day out to dry (ha…you gotta love the pun on that one ).
Anyways, the ride went fine and I arrive to work around 8:40am. Supposedly, although I had never seen them (which should have tipped me off in the first place), there are showers in the building that Barbie works in. So I politely ask the secretary where they are and she does her best to give me directions…”through the doors, go left, down the hall, then on your right”. So I proceed to lock my bike up in the garage, and then follow her directions, only to find myself lost and no showers to be found anywhere. So I ask another lady and she takes me back out to the lobby (where the secretary is sitting) and points to a door where the shower …notice I didn’t say showers … is located. This door is in plain view of where I just asked the secretary, so who knows what she was thinking.
Now this is a bathroom built for handicap people…you know the ones with bars everywhere. I figure it’s OK, and proceed to try and get the hot water going. However, there is absolutely no hot water, the drain doesn’t work and remnants of shampoo/soap left. We are not talking about your Miami cold water…this is Munich cold water. Anyways, after the shower, the thing is about to overflow b/c the drain is clogged…but I am not about to stick around and ask questions. So, on my way out I politely ask the secretary if that is the only shower (thinking to myself there has to be another place that she was directing me to)…but alas there are no other showers and I was left to wonder what everyone is talking about when that the building has showers…when in fact all they have is a cold, handicapped, clogged drain, miniature of a shower. Hopefully the afternoon gets a little better.

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