Stuff

Things are gradually coming together...

I biked about 48 miles on Sunday (including a stop at an amazing orange stand... pretty much the best oranges I've ever eaten. I realize this is yet another awesome perk about biking through Florida) and 32 miles on Monday. I decided to rest today as my neck was hurting something awful. :-/ I decided some adjustments combined with more dedicated pre- and post- ride stretching should do wonders.

I am almost completely geared up. I bought my Armadillos (tires that are not supposed to get flats. Unless you run over a nail as Lynn demonstrated on our Sunday ride) and told my bike shop not to install them. I want to get a little more TLC between me and my bike, which may result in me spending several frustrated hours trying to install tires that would prolly take the bike shop 10 minutes. I found out I don't really need spokes, so now just waiting for one final order from Amazon and I should be good to go!

I am still trying to figure out shipping... I am really paranoid about letting my new baby (who still does not have a name :-/) out of my sight... If I go the "GUARANTEED to be there on said day" route with insurance covering the cost of my bike, it will cost somewhere in the realm of $100-$200. If I go the "cross your fingers and pray to the gods that our Estimated Date of Arrival is correct" route it will cost me under $40. Soo... yeah. In advance, I am really sorry Pastor Rick if my bike graces your church's doorstep too early!

Affordable housing research due tomorrow! Hopefully 11:59PM tomorrow is acceptable! I found a coupla websites that have pages and pages of useful information related to my topic. Now it is a matter of looking through it all and deciding what is most important. I couldn't have asked for a better topic: "Relationship between affordable housing and homelessness." It's riddled with all sorts of controversial things that tend to come up and stuff I've been really curious about since my involvement with Habitat.

And finally, just bought my plane tickets from the end point. So that clinches it--I will be making it to San Diego!! :-)