Young Ho?
I don't feel so young. As a matter of fact, I feel beat, burnt and busted. You know it's an ass kicking weekend when you look forward to Monday to sleep in and relax a little at work.
Friday started with a 7:30am conference with Bangalore, India. From that point on it was balls-to-the-walls work till 6:30pm. They're testing our software's "Accessibility" (can blind people use it), and they weren't real happy with some of our implementations. Being that it was the end of day for them, we had only Friday to get the fixes done and checked-in for them to test on Monday (which would be now). When that was done, I jumped right into our trim project here at home.
The first on our trim list is the kitchen cabinets. For some reason, they were never completely trimmed out. An ugly gap was left everywhere between the cabinets, walls and ceiling.
A little quarter round fixed it up nicely.
So I cut and measured nearly everything twice, but what the hell? I don't do this everyday. Ok, so that's not exactly true either. I did trim Friday night, Saturday and today. I'll be doing trim from now till who knows. It's tedious and takes me a while. But damn it looks good and makes Jen very very happy.
In the middle of my Bob Vila tasks, I got some riding done too. Went down to Delaware and rode Brandywine with my Mighty Mighty Spot Brand/TwinSix teammates. It wasn't an easy ride. Les Leach led and kicked my ass pretty well. I hadn't done much intensity lately. Climbing the icy hills down there was a little rough on the lungs. More info here.
This morning I got up at 5 to wash some dishes, eat some breakfast and meet Craig for a four hour freeze fest. The thermometer said 23 or so degrees when I left. Didn't seem too bad, though I was secretly hoping Craig wouldn't answer the door when I got to his place. Nope. He's crazier then I am and met me with a smile through his balaclava. We rolled out shortly after 7. It was cold. The sun wasn't up high enough and the shady areas were chilly. The route was to the art museum in Philly, back, then up to Collegeville - roughly four hours (on a fixie for me). Besides a few icy patches, the ride down wasn't too bad (very bad sign). Got to the art museum, put some toe warmers in and headed back. BAM! Right into a headwind. Dumbasses. No wonder it wasn't bad getting down to the city - the wind pushed us the whole way. We struggled with our heads down (literally, the wind bit so hard at the exposed skin on our faces it hurt) till Manyunk, where we stopped at Starbucks for refreshment. I got a coffee and a blueberry muffin. Make that two blueberry muffins. One simply wasn't big enough. Refueled we pushed onto Valley Forge. Feeling somewhat ok (besides both of us being nuts), we headed on to Collegeville, turned around and made it back to Craig's with all our fingers and toes. Can't say the same for my face (I think the insides of my eyelids are wind burnt). I did some more trim work this afternoon, but it was a struggle. Every thing's been a struggle this afternoon. I'll eat. Get some energy for an hour or so, then crash again. I should just go to bed.
Not sure if I'm making the commute tomorrow morning. The forecast is something like single digits with subzero windchills. Unfortunatetly that's not what's keeping me from riding. The struggle in the wind today, tweaked my knee pretty good. Unless the drugs work some serious magic in my sleep, I'll probably be polluting tomorrow. Damn not so young knees.
- b
Friday started with a 7:30am conference with Bangalore, India. From that point on it was balls-to-the-walls work till 6:30pm. They're testing our software's "Accessibility" (can blind people use it), and they weren't real happy with some of our implementations. Being that it was the end of day for them, we had only Friday to get the fixes done and checked-in for them to test on Monday (which would be now). When that was done, I jumped right into our trim project here at home.
The first on our trim list is the kitchen cabinets. For some reason, they were never completely trimmed out. An ugly gap was left everywhere between the cabinets, walls and ceiling.
A little quarter round fixed it up nicely.So I cut and measured nearly everything twice, but what the hell? I don't do this everyday. Ok, so that's not exactly true either. I did trim Friday night, Saturday and today. I'll be doing trim from now till who knows. It's tedious and takes me a while. But damn it looks good and makes Jen very very happy.In the middle of my Bob Vila tasks, I got some riding done too. Went down to Delaware and rode Brandywine with my Mighty Mighty Spot Brand/TwinSix teammates. It wasn't an easy ride. Les Leach led and kicked my ass pretty well. I hadn't done much intensity lately. Climbing the icy hills down there was a little rough on the lungs. More info here.
This morning I got up at 5 to wash some dishes, eat some breakfast and meet Craig for a four hour freeze fest. The thermometer said 23 or so degrees when I left. Didn't seem too bad, though I was secretly hoping Craig wouldn't answer the door when I got to his place. Nope. He's crazier then I am and met me with a smile through his balaclava. We rolled out shortly after 7. It was cold. The sun wasn't up high enough and the shady areas were chilly. The route was to the art museum in Philly, back, then up to Collegeville - roughly four hours (on a fixie for me). Besides a few icy patches, the ride down wasn't too bad (very bad sign). Got to the art museum, put some toe warmers in and headed back. BAM! Right into a headwind. Dumbasses. No wonder it wasn't bad getting down to the city - the wind pushed us the whole way. We struggled with our heads down (literally, the wind bit so hard at the exposed skin on our faces it hurt) till Manyunk, where we stopped at Starbucks for refreshment. I got a coffee and a blueberry muffin. Make that two blueberry muffins. One simply wasn't big enough. Refueled we pushed onto Valley Forge. Feeling somewhat ok (besides both of us being nuts), we headed on to Collegeville, turned around and made it back to Craig's with all our fingers and toes. Can't say the same for my face (I think the insides of my eyelids are wind burnt). I did some more trim work this afternoon, but it was a struggle. Every thing's been a struggle this afternoon. I'll eat. Get some energy for an hour or so, then crash again. I should just go to bed.
Not sure if I'm making the commute tomorrow morning. The forecast is something like single digits with subzero windchills. Unfortunatetly that's not what's keeping me from riding. The struggle in the wind today, tweaked my knee pretty good. Unless the drugs work some serious magic in my sleep, I'll probably be polluting tomorrow. Damn not so young knees.
- b
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