got lucky again this morning

with the wind and the rain...

not a tail wind but one of those just slightly behind you winds that still give you a bit of lift and a push.

and the rain - poured cats and dogs early (woke up to the music of the rain pounding the roof) but cleared out for the ride in. nice wet roads and path, but nothing falling from the sky.

AND it was warm. Heck I even managed to overdress a bit.

the only dissapointment on the ride was not finding fog shrouding the lighthouse. I'd grabbed the camera on the way out the door in hopes that the 'reports' of fog and low visibility would get me a chance to snap a nice shot. I guess the wind blew it all out. But hey - pretty minor in the list of things that could have been wrong.

it is odd though, all the other commuters are loving how much shorter the ride to and from work is now that the washington bridge is open... i haven't noticed it. I'm far less agitated, something about not being around dickhead drivers at all anymore is pretty relaxing and really awesome. But the distance doesn't seem that much different. I guess maybe it is because a 50 mile ride doesn't really seem that long to me so plus or minus a mile or two each way isn't something my frame of reference can grasp. that and i'm not really timing the trip in so I don't have a good idea how much less time it is taking to get back and forth.

Oh and hey - Legend is having a map launch party tomorrow night IIRC. Jack said he'd be sending out another email reminder about it. I'll pass it on. Sounds like it'll be pretty cool...

And man, after a month of running non-stop fixing things and dealing with people's issues and scheduling nightmares I'm pooped. It would be nice to just take a day off... oh and funny thing happened on the ride tuesday night. I guess one of my team mates thought it would be funny to put their empty Gu packet in my jersey pocket. And yeah. It was pretty funny. That and a whole super stack can of pringles eaten an hour before a long hard ride isn't so bad, sure beats bonking, and for $1.50 how can you go wrong... and they even have maltodextrin listed as an ingredient - not the best thing i've put in my system in a while, but being that it is the worst thing i've eaten since the bag of andy cap hot fries on the drive home from Battenkill, i will probably survive.

Add this up to the "wish i'd thought of that": team-car.com/

Very cool. It hasn't happened for a while but there is a chance it'll happen on Saturday Morning trying to hang on to the taller freak's wheel. It being me wondering why I can't just stick with turning wrenches...

time to turn some really small wrenches...
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