After a week of seasonably abnormal weather, a cold front finally limped through the area this morning, bringing with it a rain storm perfectly timed to wipe out any chance of a morning ride. Instead, I drove The Wife over to the Tulane shuttle stop, and in the process got good and wet and then spilled half a cup of coffee onto the seat of the car. Even worse, I was sitting in said seat at the time. It was not pretty.
Of course the clouds cleared and the sun came out when it was time to go to work. Anyway, I guess I shouldn't be complaining about a few days of riding in summer kit in January. For some reason, although my camera came along for practically every ride in the last week, I never managed to fish it out of my pocket to take a picture. Uninspired, I suppose.
One thing I did manage to accomplish was to install a new security system at the house. I still need to run the wire for the exterior siren, and I think I'll add a motion detector for the basement, but essentially it's up and running with door and window sensors, smoke detector, motion detector, remote keyfob, etc.. It even has that same British lady's voice that my Garmin does, and when it's tripped she calls me on my cellphone. I'm still a little bit up in the air about whether or not to sign up for an alarm monitoring service. I guess I'll eventually cave in on that, but I might wait a while so I can see how it all works first.
Change is in the air, however, and it looks like we'll be a little closer to seasonal normal by tomorrow morning. Perhaps I'll be inspired to pull that camera out of my pocket. The Tulane team is making its new 2012 team kits available for purchase via WePay, so if you want to support the team, pick up a couple of items.
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