Today's Update

Wow...when you're unemployed, you can really blog a lot. So it's still Tuesday. It turns out I was reading the wrong number off my cyclometer on Sunday...in fact the Lake Washington to Seattle ride only totalled about 18 miles round trip. There is a good side and a bad side to this. The good side is that it's only about 8 miles to Seattle from here (I took some detours on the 18 mile ride). The bad side is that I really am totally out of shape and a wimp. When I left off nearly two months ago in CT I was riding 35 and 40 miles in a couple hours no problemo. Anyway I rode about sixteen miles today on the Lake Washington Loop. I went down to Boeing in Renton and back. I didn't realize it until I was nearly done with the ride but my seat post was a little loose and was slowly sinking. Finally I thought...man it is getting hard to pedal and I looked down and realized that I must look like a total idiot with my knees bent at nearly a ninety degree angle...anyway, I got off my bike and fixed that...along with some brake maintenance. This was my first on-road maintenance. I really need to buy a flat repair kit and a pump after having witnessed other people fixing flats nearly on every ride I've been on. I'm living on the edge now...but it would suck to have to walk my bike back 8 or even 15 miles. Today's ride wasn't quite as pleasant as Sunday's. Renton isn't quite as bike friendly, though the Lake Washington Loop still beats the pants off any Connecticut road.

I'm making a list from Yelp of restaurants I want to go once I get a job and we have some money. I want to go to Dixie's...a bbq joint, and I want to meet the "Man" (meeting the man is trying some of this super hot sauce); and a couple of sushi places; and a burrito place in Seattle, and when I'm really doing well I can go to Seastar, a supposedly awesome seafood place just down the road. Of course I want to cruise down to Tacoma and see the UPS campus for old times' sake and I want to go hiking in the Olympics and go to the Pacific coast...and up to Vancouver...tons of things, but there's already so much to do just in our immediate vicinity. Once I have a job I may have money but won't have so much time. It looks like Merinda is going to stick with the sales job at Bell Square, so we'll still have the same weekend issues as we did in Hartford, at least until I'm making mucho denero, which may never happen, especially at this rate.