"...Reproductively Important"

Did the Wednesday night ride, though didn't finish. Guess my skills are a little lacking as my chain ring was completely cooked and would no longer hold my chain. It's been this way for a while. I was hoping I could hold out replacing it before I went away. Doesn't look like that's the case.

Had to wrap the chain around the rear to roll home. Thirty miles an hour downhill on the road with a flapping chain is a little un-nerving.

The Ultimate Frisbee game after the bar was tough. My lack of fitness is really starting to show. The only redeeming move I had was climbing to the roof to get a wild throw. Wild indeed.

Stayed home Thursday to receive our new toy.

For Jen and I it's like a flat panel TV, but better. You can control temps, flame hight, fuel source, etc. It has a controller like a video game and it heats the house. Turns out the brochure and info we had was for last years model. The one we got is this years. It's full of all kinds of new features and heat output. As long as it doesn't out think itself and burn the house down, we should have a nice warm happy life together. Now if it would just get cold.

And our Praying Mantis are getting bigger.

On the pool front, it looks like we might finally be getting our skimmer replaced. I stopped in our local store back in June to discuss this with them. They said yes, it's something they can fix, but might be a while before they get to it. Three months later I got tired of waiting and started calling around. Most places said the job was too big. When I called the bigger places, they said the job was too small. I started getting nervous and angry. Finally went back to our local store and the woman was like "they haven't fixed it yet? How's next week sound?" We'll see. I didn't get a specific day next week or a call back confirming.

Went last night to the Madison Cup. Pretty fun watching the strategy and strength unfold before your eyes in two laps.

Time to give CJ a bath.

- b