Rather Bored

It's been relatively quiet at the office today, due in no small part to the fact that I'm the only one here, and although I've a bunch of items on my to-do list I'm feeling rather bored fumbling through our cumbersome online accounting reports and cranking out some tedious reports that nobody will ever pay any attention to whatsoever. This morning's ride was easy, as planned. I started solo a little bit early after I ran into Realdo. He turned around eventually but I picked up Charlie, and then on the way back we waited for the four or five guys who had started at the regular time to catch us.

So I think I'm going to build up a pair of training wheels. Standard fare, of course. 32-spoke, Open Pro, with a Campi rear hub and an old Campi Record front. By "old" I mean around 1980 or so. Isn't it interesting that the "old style" loose-bearing Campi hubs are still smooth after 20 years while the fancy-schmancy sealed-bearing ultralight cartridge hubs seem to self-destruct much sooner? I may go ahead and get a third cheaper rim and also rebuild the damaged wheel from my run-in with the truck, but that one will probably go on the commuter so that I can put the wheel I've been commuting on for the past few years back on the old Pennine where it belongs. It's been quite a few years since I built a wheel, but then building a regular 32-hole 3-cross wheel on a solid rim like the Open Pro is not exactly rocket-science and sometimes it seems practically therapeutic. Since people always say I need therapy, I guess that's good!

The "new" LAMBRA website is finally being properly referenced in the domain nameservers, so I added a couple of our sponsor advertisements during lunch. I think there is one or maybe a couple more sponsors, but I don't have their stuff yet.

Got a TM from Gina V about half an hour ago. She said she had still not gotten to Little Rock, AK. Long drive for someone who just escaped from a hospital bed. It's about ten hours from Little Rock to Athens. That would put her in there around 1 or 2 a.m., but hey, it's Athens Twilight and her race probably doesn't start until around 7 p.m.

What would you do?