and things went downhill from there

The plan for the first half of our day was pretty much set. We were going to head out for some inexpensive breakfast, pick up a new cartridge for our printer, and if the weather held up we were going to walk over to the bike shop and pick up my new bike. It's a good 45-minute walk, but we've been looking for an excuse to get more exercise.

And then this happened.
( Ouch! )

Anyway, we altered our plans a bit, and atara drove us over to the bike shop instead so that I could get the bike. By the time I was about five blocks from the shop I concluded that the seat was slightly too low for me, and the tires were a bit under-inflated. There was a pretty good layer of dust on the bike when I bought it, so I suspect that it was in the showroom long enough to have lost some air. It almost felt like riding through soft sand all the way home, and by the time I arrived at the house my legs felt like rubber. I was ready to call it a day, but atara wanted to haul out her bike and go riding together. I couldn't say "no" once she turned on those puppy-dog eyes.

We adjusted the seat, and I topped up the tires, then we mounted up and rode down to Safeway for Milk. It was a much easier ride, and by the time we were on our way home my legs were feeling full of energy again. I could probably have handled a loop of the park and back, but we needed to start getting ready for atara's graduation party over at pierrekrahn's place this afternoon.

I feel good about this bike. It's a nice ride. I have a hunch the two of us are going to get in a lot more riding this summer than we did last.



Finally, I'll leave you with a video appropriate to the date. The lyrics are slightly NSFW (depending on where you work).