Finally I got back on the bike this morning, rolling out into the cold air around 6:45, and thankful for the extra morning sunlight since the time change. It was somewhere in the upper 30s F, but I have finally accumulated about enough of my winter wardrobe to accomodate those kinds of temperatyures. Still, I felt pretty out of shape, as I undoubtedly am, and wasn't really pushing myself very much. Such is winter training. The whole time, my mind was on other things. For one, I needed to deal with the car. I was lucky to make it back to Jackson on Tuesday. The last 25 miles from Baton Rouge were pretty sketchy. The temperature gauge would make wild fluctuations and the car's engine management system, trying to accomodate the bogus data, was doing some strange stuff that caused the car to misfire sometimes. Right after we arrived yesterday, I popped the hood and jiggled the temperature sender connection. Sure enough, the cooling fan kicked on immediately. I jiggled it again and the fan stopped. So this morning, after my ride, I checked it out and found that the connector had pretty much disintegrated. I think the sending unit was getting only intermittent contact. I got that fixed to my satisfaction, using large amounts of electrical tape, and moved on to other things. There was a 10 a.m. conference call about the state's upcoming special session where they will have to make a lot of cuts. I ended up with a rather impossible task after that one. Then, at 2 p.m. was the weekly research conference call. What a disaster. We kept getting one side of someone else's private phone conversations and it was hard to talk over them. After only half an hour, we abandoned it altogether.
Anyway, I have a lot left to do tonight and I'm very sleepy after having a couple of glasses of wine with dinner.
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