Psssssssssst!

A smallish group at the start turned into a more normal 15 person string this morning. It was warm and especially humid up on the levee and for the most part my mind was elsewhere. Thanks to the light wind it was easy to loiter near the back of the group as the pace ebbed and flowed - a nice way to say it was particularly erratic. I guess my legs were still feeling a little bit of the weekend today, as I wasn't feeling particularly energetic. Just as things were getting fast approaching the turnaround, I felt that all-to-familiar squishiness that signalled a soft rear tire, so I dropped out of the paceline as the group sped past and took my time changing the tube out. I almost cut my finger checking the tire, as there was a quarter-inch long shard of rock that had penetrated the casing. The group surprised me a bit and so I only got about 50 psi into the tire before I had to roll. Missing the group way out there by the turnaround would have meant a long, lonley ride home f'sure.

Back at the house I discover that the commuter has a flat tire too, so I had to patch a tube and change that one out too, by which time I was running pretty late. There were no roofers in sight, and in fact they still haven't returned to finish up the last little bit of roof. I guess they don't really need my check too badly. Work today felt like nothing but spinning wheels and getting nowhere. Some of the information I need in order to put together this last-minute proposal for the Dept. of Education, which will probably amount to something like $7M, is starting to get hard to come by because there is now all this pending litigation and the attorneys have gotten themselves in the middle of everything. Basically it just means more phone calls and more delays and more stomach acid.

So there are a couple of things I'm getting really tired of. One are the daily "action reporter" segments about people who are having trouble with their FEMA trailers. The other is the endless, yet uninformed, banter about Landis.

Time to move on, boys and girls.