Hail to thee, bike rider
I checked with one of my friends who is in the cycling group and he assured me that the Sprague Road test is a mid-season thing. At the beginning of Spring, when the group starts anew, pretty much nobody is capable of making it up that road, so I will be going out with them whenever they start.
This didn't stop me from working on getting into shape, of course. I did a few more laps of the hill by my house and had just ridden back home when I got a call from a guy who had borrowed my cuff-links on Friday. He apologized for forgetting to return them, and would be at such-and-such a location for the next 45 minutes, if I wanted to come by; otherwise, he would drop them off.
Well, the location was only a mile away and back up the hill, so I took it as an excuse to do one more climb. On the way back, I got a call on my cell from Peachie Girl warning me to come straight home, as a storm was approaching. As it happens, I reached my driveway just as the first few drops hit and was putting the bike in the basement when it really let loose. When I came upstairs and looked out, I realized how closely I had cut it. It wasn't rain - it was hail. Big hail, with the stones ranging from pea size to marble size to as large as a nickel. The hail only went on for a few minutes before it did change to just rain, but I am so glad I was not outside when it came down.
Otherwise, it's been a pretty productive end of the week. I finally did my taxes (they owe me money), I finished mixing all but one scene of Misfile episode 5 - and that is waiting on bomberman61, who was gracious enough to stand in for a one-shot role when one of my VAs disappeared on me.
I also submitted my entries for this week's Act It! competition, which continues to be a blast, made some progress with a graph layout algorithm I need for a work project, and am now looking at restarting a personal project I had abandoned a few months ago. The reason for cancellation seems no longer to be valid, and I have found a way to justify it not only for its own sake, but also as a way to polish up a new skill that will be useful for work.
This didn't stop me from working on getting into shape, of course. I did a few more laps of the hill by my house and had just ridden back home when I got a call from a guy who had borrowed my cuff-links on Friday. He apologized for forgetting to return them, and would be at such-and-such a location for the next 45 minutes, if I wanted to come by; otherwise, he would drop them off.
Well, the location was only a mile away and back up the hill, so I took it as an excuse to do one more climb. On the way back, I got a call on my cell from Peachie Girl warning me to come straight home, as a storm was approaching. As it happens, I reached my driveway just as the first few drops hit and was putting the bike in the basement when it really let loose. When I came upstairs and looked out, I realized how closely I had cut it. It wasn't rain - it was hail. Big hail, with the stones ranging from pea size to marble size to as large as a nickel. The hail only went on for a few minutes before it did change to just rain, but I am so glad I was not outside when it came down.
Otherwise, it's been a pretty productive end of the week. I finally did my taxes (they owe me money), I finished mixing all but one scene of Misfile episode 5 - and that is waiting on bomberman61, who was gracious enough to stand in for a one-shot role when one of my VAs disappeared on me.
I also submitted my entries for this week's Act It! competition, which continues to be a blast, made some progress with a graph layout algorithm I need for a work project, and am now looking at restarting a personal project I had abandoned a few months ago. The reason for cancellation seems no longer to be valid, and I have found a way to justify it not only for its own sake, but also as a way to polish up a new skill that will be useful for work.