Spent most of last night assembling a kitchen worktable thing. The instructions said, "tools needed: phillips head screwdriver." Reality: Three different sizes of phillips head screwdrivers, hammer, extra wood glue, allen wrench, drill, sandpaper, lots of wine. The instructions were incomprehensible at best and flat-out wrong at worst, but I finally got the blasted thing put together. Of course this will no doubt escalate into a total remodeling of the kitchen.
The Thursday morning ride was pretty nice today. It was probably the last of the unseasonably cool days we'll get for a while and I was feeling pretty good. Well, maybe I was a little miffed that I won't be racing this weekend and was trying to take it out on my legs. Anyway, the pace was pretty good most of the way and really picked up on the way back. We hit the "dip" pretty fast and I was on, I think, Donald's wheel as we blasted down the ramp and along the street-level section of bike path that is always littered with rocks. I hit one of those suckers really hard and immediately heard the air escaping from the pinch-flat in my rear tube. I was on the rim before I made it up the other side. At least I knew what had happened and since I didn't have to check the tire for embedded glass the change went fast and we were rolling again in a few minutes. I probably only got 60 psi into the tire and could feel the difference, but it was plenty enough to get me home.
Spent a lot of time yesterday working on the Tour de Louisiane. The USCF permit got submitted, the website got updated, I set up the online registration, put up a map of the new road race course, etc. Still much to do and I will probably not send out the official announcement to the lists until next week. Don't want to take any of the luster away from the Rocky Mount Omnium going on this weekend in S'port. I think I'll try and see if I can get some of the folks who are not going to Rocky Mount to do a few laps on the Tour de La road course this weekend so I can check out the intersections, start/finish, etc.
Locally, it seems like a lot of new repair work has started up all over town in the last couple of weeks. Speaking of which, I need to get something going on the roof!
2 comments:
I've always wondered why Robertson screws have not caught on in the US. I much prefer them to Philips.
The answer is that Phillips head screws work better with automated assembly systems. I agree that they don't work nearly as well with humans.
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