Back to the Salt Mine

After a nice 3-day weekend, it was back to the salt mine this morning, but not before squeezing in a ride up on the levee. It rained most of the night and the streets were wet when I awoke, but when I checked the weather radar it looked like we'd be in the clear for a couple of hours. There was a small group up on the levee for the Tuesday ride, but when we got out to Kenner I turned back because I needed to get to work a little bit earlier than usual today. My legs were kind of sore, although not from riding. I had spent much of Monday playing electrician and plumber around the house and by the time I was done I was sore in a lot of places. At least I was able to avoid electrocuting myself, burning down the house, or flooding the bathroom floor, although I did end up having to go back to the hardware store for more wire, since I was about two feet short with what I had after having to deal with an unanticipated situation. Of course I knew ahead of time that there would be some sort of unanticipated situation - there always is in an old house like this - so I guess it was more of an unknown, rather than unanticipated, situation.

The weather forecast is not looking too great for the next few days, which is just as well since I will be tied up with work and other things most of the time.

I got the results from last weekend's races in Monroe last night. I'm not quite sure what will happen about the Master 35+, Master 45+ breakdown. It seems there were two versions of the flyer floating around, only one of which had a Master 45+ class on it, but the official one on the sponsoring club's website did have the 45+ class, so that's good. I don't know if they were asking the 45+ riders whether they wanted to be scored as 35+ or 45+, however, and the Chief Referee just sent me results with all of the 35+ riders together. Anyway, for now the results just show all the masters as 35+. Whatever.

The Daughter's boyfriend is coming in tomorrow, and The Wife has responded to her lack of control over the situation by grocery shopping. The refrigerator and freezer are literally packed with food, which I definitely not what I need! They will be leaving later this week to drive up to Iowa City, which means that I will end up eating ad libitum until the food supply is back to normal.