Nicely chilled air circulated through the mesh in my shoes as I pedaled slowly in the dark out to the morning training ride. For a while, it was almost chilly. The group gathered there on the levee was fairly large, and we headed off down the bike path at a reasonable pace, considering the darkness. Brady had his ultra bright helmet light on, and I noticed that unless he was at the front, the light reflecting off of the riders ahead of him actually made it harder to see what was coming. From the start, I knew I'd be turning around early today. The movers were due to start around 9 am and I had to be at the office before that, so I turned around at the parish line. Riding back alone was surprisingly nice, and I reminded myself that I should do more of that.
Knowing that things would be sketchy all day, I slipped my laptop and charger into my messenger bag before heading off to work. I was glad I did. With a few interruptions, I ended up hanging around the "old" office until around noon. The movers were still far from finished loading up the truck, but everyone else was gone and there was nothing more I could do there, so I headed uptown to the "new" office in University Square. I arrived around 1 pm, I guess, to find the new office empty but open. There was a very weak and unreliable Tulane wireless signal, and when I plugged my ethernet cable into the wall I couldn't get it to connect. I would later find out that you have to plug you computer into the internet connected telephone in
order to get it to work. Would have been nice if someone had told us about that! Anyway, by 3:30 pm I was still
sitting on the floor with a sketchy internet connection
waiting for the truck to show up. At least a few of the other folks from the office had appeared by then. Finally, around 4 pm they arrived, and when I left half an hour later they still had not unloaded anything. They promised it would all be unloaded and set up by tomorrow, so I headed home and called it a day.
Nicely chilled air circulated through the mesh in my shoes as I pedaled slowly in the dark out to the morning training ride. For a while, it was almost chilly. The group gathered there on the levee was fairly large, and we headed off down the bike path at a reasonable pace, considering the darkness. Brady had his ultra bright helmet light on, and I noticed that unless he was at the front, the light reflecting off of the riders ahead of him actually made it harder to see what was coming. From the start, I knew I'd be turning around early today. The movers were due to start around 9 am and I had to be at the office before that, so I turned around at the parish line. Riding back alone was surprisingly nice, and I reminded myself that I should do more of that.
Knowing that things would be sketchy all day, I slipped my laptop and charger into my messenger bag before heading off to work. I was glad I did. With a few interruptions, I ended up hanging around the "old" office until around noon. The movers were still far from finished loading up the truck, but everyone else was gone and there was nothing more I could do there, so I headed uptown to the "new" office in University Square. I arrived around 1 pm, I guess, to find the new office empty but open. There was a very weak and unreliable Tulane wireless signal, and when I plugged my ethernet cable into the wall I couldn't get it to connect. I would later find out that you have to plug you computer into the internet connected telephone in 
order to get it to work. Would have been nice if someone had told us about that! Anyway, by 3:30 pm I was still sitting on the floor with a sketchy internet connection waiting for the truck to show up. At least a few of the other folks from the office had appeared by then. Finally, around 4 pm they arrived, and when I left half an hour later they still had not unloaded anything. They promised it would all be unloaded and set up by tomorrow, so I headed home and called it a day.
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