What I do when I'm riding my bike.

It's heartening to know that even 20 years after I stopped traveling for business all the time, I have not lost my ability to completely trash a hotel room within 15 minutes of entering one. Especially one with 2 beds like at this hotel. Show me a horizontal surface and I'm seeing an opportunity to put things on it. It's quite remarkable (as you may have noted because I remarked on it). 

Went for a nice 20 mile bike ride this morning, north to Bethany Beach. It's a beautiful day- perfect for riding. There are nice wide shoulders on both sides of the road, nice and smooth and not much junk sitting on them.

In one direction (when I spoke that into the phone it capitalized it), there's not only a shoulder, but a pedestrian path. Along the pedestrian path, there are lots of benches. I know people want to sit down sometimes when they're walking, but I don't know that you need one every 10 yards. People go on the paths to walk, not sit.

All the benches have some sort of message embossed into their backs. Some of them are ads for real estate companies, some praise Jesus or some other sort of deity. But most of them have some sort of memorial statement. "In loving memory of Person - Loving husband, father, and grandfather."

It got me thinking. That might be a nice way to memorialize myself after I'm gone. I have some money, so I could buy maybe 1000 benches and line all the area trails with them. Each one would say "In loving memory of Frank -" and then each one would be different. 

No need for them to be true. Not all of those people could have been so great. I would give the trustees of my estate three lists of words- a superlative, a noun and a modifier. "Monumental appliance shredder" or "Unparalleled cabbage soother". Some would have to be alliterative. We'd have a special list for that. Hope I don't die too soon so I have time to work on this.