RACC report

I was going well last Saturday, starting off from home at 05:30 to the start of the RACC, at Clark County College in Vancouver.  Left at 07:05 and by 08:45 had gotten around Lacamas Lake.  Had a blowout and examined the rear tire, and there was a see through hole in the tread, just where the round hole was in the tube.  Surprize.   Booted the hole with a $5 bill, and also noticed a gash, also on the tread.  Inflated just fine with a 12gm CO2 cartridge, and then mangaged to mount the wheel picking up the chain coming from the bottom of the rear derailleur.  So off again,and back on, and off riding. About 15 minutes later, another flat, so I decided to wait for the SAG support.  It took awhile, but got a ride with the truck that was picking up the Lacamas Rest Station and would be going back to Clark College.

Last weekend's Monster Cookie Ride was a great success.  Warm and sunny and fast times on the flat route, with 3 others that pushed each other.

Getting ready for the Edens Gate 400km brevet, the 2011 New Years Resolution

If this works, here's the route on Google maps.
 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&vps=3&jsv=331c&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=205583683732563108609.0004a0aef6182ec4bdb8a

20% done with being in charge

But did the Birkie 200k on Saturday, and got my ANSI Class 3 vest today.  The vest is not stylish, but the cars seemed to notice it.

The wife's back, so less housework! But got sick.

The night before work began, I woke up all dizzy.  Was able to sleep some more then had to get up around 05:30 due to the intense nausea caused by all the dizziness.  Stayed home on Tuesday, and saw the doctor, who ruled out the more serious causes of vertigo, and gave Rx to relieve the symptoms.  The meds helped, and today, Wednesday, I felt better and good enough to search it out on the web.  BPPV is Benign (not harmful), Paroxysmal (all of a sudden onset), Positional (just what is says), Vertigo (dizziness).    I also tried out a technique for moving the fluids around in the semi-circular canals of the middle ear called the Epley maneuver.  I could feel stuff moving around in there, so hopefully that will do the trick.  It did seem like the vertigo was quite severe on the right side, good thing the associated nausea's not around, and not on the left side.

Housekeeping tonight

Three loads of laundry, three zones for the Roomba today, and applied Moss-out to the front lawn, to preserve the grass. Oh, and it was a garbage night, with the bonus of being a yard debris pick up tomorrow, as well.

Three more days of work, before four days off, because of the President's Day Holiday Monday fall on by normal compressed day off. Very busy, there, as we've lost 5 of 14 staff in 2010 and are expected to retire another 4 in 2011, and a younger one saying there physically unable to do the job.

Income taxes coming up, too.

Bachelor for 3.5 weeks

Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinnner all mine for a few weeks. Starts today

Oh, and work, too. At least for another 719 days.

Next to sign up for the Worst Day of the Year Ride, next Sunday.

Oh, hopefully find my lost items, too.
$20 coffee card
rear fender support for the Buzz
a MP3 player
and a few other things, too.

Good night

Testing 123, if it works

Got an email that Word® 2010 can post to Blogs, maybe even Google's Blogger?