Homework

A little mini cool front drifted through 'round here Friday night, making Saturday morning a bit less humid than usual. So I had a nice ride out to the lakefront this morning to meet the Saturday Giro ride. The first part of the ride seemed kind of odd, though. For some reason the pace seemed inconsistent. Perhaps it was just that I was hanging around closer to the back than the front. It took a long time to get my legs going, but by the end of Hayne they were feeling a lot better. The pace got fast on Chef Highway as usual and when the sprint started Howard bridged me up to Tim, where I stayed for the duration. Soon after we started the return trip, Tim, Donald and I rolled off the front a bit since the group was moving in slow motion. After a while our pace picked up and the gap widened. At some point Tim vocalized what we were all thinking. The goal today was to stay ahead of the group to the end. So it was a 3-man time trial that eventually evolved into a 2-man somewhere on Hayne. Since we didn't get caught, it was fun!

Back on the home front, today was a work day. This being the first free weekend we've had in a while, there was a long list of things that needed to get done around the house. I spun the roulette wheel and the ball landed in the "fix the garage roof" slot. Working mostly with random scraps of lumber I replaced a bunch of rotten wood and replaced a couple section of corrugated metal roofing that had blown off during Katrina. Along the way, though, The Wife somehow bent the lawnmower blade rather dramatically, so we ended up making a trip out to Sears where I finally broke down and bought a small chainsaw. A couple of stops later and I had acquired a 10 foot 2x6 that, amazingly, just barely fits completely inside the Volvo, along with various nails, screws etc.

I'm tired, so I'm going to bed.......