almost June?

Crazy talk. Can it really be almost June? I'm already booking stuff in June so I guess it can't be that far off. The end of the school year for my girls is looking to be insane. For some reason the K and Pre-K finishes a week before the 1-5th graders do in the elementary school. Nuts. Just plain old nuts. And a nice logistical headache. Granted I'm very much looking forward to the extra time with the youngest, I will probably be taking the bulk of the time off or having more than one take your daughter to work day. And I will not be riding to work quite as much.

Looks like maybe this week will start a longer 'rest' period than maybe I had thought. But then carrying through from Tuesday won't help much, too tired.

And what is up with the temps? seriously. i'm ready for the warm weather. enough with this cool and wet crap. save it up for the fall. maybe we can have endless rain from September until December. That would be a nice change from the dry and dusty and maybe cold conditions that have typified the NE cross scene as of late.

But actually these next two weeks play well into heading to Maine for a week. Gonna hit the training camp at the beginning of the summer instead of the end. Different. It just works better with everyone'schedules, esp as even the oldest's last day is a week earlier than the district where the Y's summer day camp is. I'm so ready for a long vacation. The scopes are in a perpetual state of misbehaving. Fun usually, but now the same problem over and over and over and the service folks are tossing parts at it with no results. Well lately they've just taken to sending me the parts and I've put them on. Saves them a bunch of cash, and me lots of waiting for them to get here but still with the same lack of improvement. Intermittent problems suck. Hardest is having to tell user after user "Yeah, the scope is broken." "Sorry, no I don't know when it will be working again." "you can try it, it might work, but no guarantees" talk about broken record. I've have the conversation so many times this week and last I don't know what to say. The company's working on it and we're making progress (ticking things off the list as they get replaced) but no headway. Silly complicated systems.

It would have been nice if some of the Maine races coincided with my week up there, but I'll just go ride some nice roads alone.

I'm kinda pissed - i can't find one of my long finger gloves for commuting. It's just cold enough that it is more comfortable with long fingers. And riding with one glove is just wrong. So i've been wearing the ones that match the team kit, the ones i usually save for racing. Then it hit me. I'll be in different colors for cross season. I'm going to see if I can find a pair to match those. that or go gloveless like some...

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