nevermind
busy weekend.
That bike ride friday nearly killed me. But now I'm recovered, and hopefully will train hard this week, so I can do that ride with no troubles.
I have discovered one issue with my summer planning, and that is that I thought the race was one weekend later than it really is. I thought I was going to be in fort collins for a week of drinking and eating, then have a week of training to get back into groove, then the race.
Instead, the race is the weekend that I come back from fort collins. So I'll have about 1 day to get ready for the race. Yeah, I anticipate great things from me for this race, cuz I'm not going to hold back the eating and drinking on vacation, and I highly doubt I'll do a lot of training while I'm out there.
saturday I finished building the kids new swingset.
Yes, it's all new stuff at our house. Mostly because I insist on buying the cheapest thing available the first time, and invariably, the kids destroy it. So then I have to replace it. Only then am I convinced that we need something better than the cheapest thing available. So now we have a new trampoline and swingset.
I was pretty irritated with it friday nite, because I went to mount the top beam to the a frames, after Aubrey and I had carefully measured and drilled all the mounting holes, and found that the a frame brackets were not spaced apart the width the instructions claimed. And they were off just enough that I could not just drill a new hole to compensate, I would have had to drill two new holes, and then the spacing of the frames would have been too close to the swings.
So I had to get a whole new 4x6x12 and do it again.
So Sunday I turned the first 4x6x12 into a balance beam, just to use it for something.
Maybe I'll turn it into a teeter totter if the balance beam isn't used.
The kegbot is progressing, although slowly. Since there's no deadline, it's easily interrupted. Although no that I think about it, it really should have a deadline of the 'end of summer' because once the semester starts, I'll be busy with my thesis, and won't have much time for the kegbot anymore. Maybe I can make the kegbot my thesis....
That bike ride friday nearly killed me. But now I'm recovered, and hopefully will train hard this week, so I can do that ride with no troubles.
I have discovered one issue with my summer planning, and that is that I thought the race was one weekend later than it really is. I thought I was going to be in fort collins for a week of drinking and eating, then have a week of training to get back into groove, then the race.
Instead, the race is the weekend that I come back from fort collins. So I'll have about 1 day to get ready for the race. Yeah, I anticipate great things from me for this race, cuz I'm not going to hold back the eating and drinking on vacation, and I highly doubt I'll do a lot of training while I'm out there.
saturday I finished building the kids new swingset.
Yes, it's all new stuff at our house. Mostly because I insist on buying the cheapest thing available the first time, and invariably, the kids destroy it. So then I have to replace it. Only then am I convinced that we need something better than the cheapest thing available. So now we have a new trampoline and swingset.
I was pretty irritated with it friday nite, because I went to mount the top beam to the a frames, after Aubrey and I had carefully measured and drilled all the mounting holes, and found that the a frame brackets were not spaced apart the width the instructions claimed. And they were off just enough that I could not just drill a new hole to compensate, I would have had to drill two new holes, and then the spacing of the frames would have been too close to the swings.
So I had to get a whole new 4x6x12 and do it again.
So Sunday I turned the first 4x6x12 into a balance beam, just to use it for something.
Maybe I'll turn it into a teeter totter if the balance beam isn't used.
The kegbot is progressing, although slowly. Since there's no deadline, it's easily interrupted. Although no that I think about it, it really should have a deadline of the 'end of summer' because once the semester starts, I'll be busy with my thesis, and won't have much time for the kegbot anymore. Maybe I can make the kegbot my thesis....
Comments
Yeah, I'm about 8 shots of Irish Cream into training tonight - you better bring it. Don't worry, I'm just warming up...
Posted by: David | July 3, 2007 11:32 PM