Acclimatization??

5 a.m. and I'm lying in bed thinking that it should be warmer. I check the indoor-outdoor thermometer next to the bed and my suspicions are confirmed. So I ended up down in the basement re-lighting the pilot light on the furnace. It was too late to go back to sleep, so I basically shuffled around the house until it was light enough to go out.

It was fairly cold this morning, and still rather windy, and it was clear that I have not quite acclimatized to the cold weather. My fingers were frozen by the time I hit the levee, and since I was a few minutes early and it was too cold to stop and wait, I rolled down the levee slowly wondering if anyone would turn up. After a while Joe F. showed up. He had never been able to find his long tights yet this winter, and so was riding in shorts. He was looking pretty cold, and I think he would have been happy to turn around at the playground, but I convinced him to ride on. Even so, we were going pretty slowly and turned around at the pumping station, a couple of miles before the usual turn-around. Another rider joined us on the way back, and by then the sun was coming up and it was a little warmer. Anyway, it was kind of a typical easy Friday ride, just a bit colder. It always seems to take me a couple of weeks to acclimatize to the cold weather, so I figure it's worth it to force myself out the door right now because in a few weeks this weather will feel relatively comfy.

The house looks more and more like an office every day now, and I guess there were five or six staff there all day today. I had to run back from Tulane to the house around lunchtime to get a few files off of my desktop which currently resides in my study along with a few visiting Psychiatry computers, printers, routers, etc. When I got home, there was some good news, however. The word from the VP at the Health Sciences Center was that the power was back on in the Tidewater Building and that he was probably going to move back into his office on Monday and then begin to coordinate the re-entry of other departments, one of which would be The Wife's and another of which would be mine. I have a feeling, however, that we will hang out on the uptown campus for a while longer, though.

Should be interesting.

Tomorrow, the Giro; Sunday, the Northshore training ride. Also Sunday, the refrigerator and dryer get delivered!! Whoooohooooo!