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08-14-2006, 06:05 PM #1Kitsune06 Guest
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08-14-2006, 07:03 PM #2
Team Danger Dachsund!
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Quite a day!
As I started out on my last 30 mile ride before next Sunday's tri, I thought I'd strip the bike down to the bare essentials. I wouldn't carry all my keys, they wouldn't fit in the bento box with my phone and Clif blox anyway! I cleverly hid them in my storage locker in the basement, closed the door, and locked the padlock!!!
OH NO MR. BILL!!! That's the padlock I *never* lock, it just sort of holds the door shut, didn't the slip of paper with the combination on it get lost long ago?!?!? Yes. Argh! Sloth never pays! I keep meaning to put another lock on there, one to which I know the combo! Our basement is so secure that I don't bother with actually locking the storage locker. My bikes are locked up separately.
Now I have a real problem. Hmmm. I scrounge around the basement and find a metal file. Use that to cut through the screening on the front of the locker. Reach in and get my keys. Go up to my apartment for my hammer and screwdriver. One more look around to make sure I don't have that combo anywhere. Nope. Back downstairs, pry the entire lock thing out of the wood door. Sigh heavily.
Go out on my ride. Have a great time.
Come home, go to Home Depot, buy wood putty and a new hasp for the door. Install it the wrong way (of course), take it off, reinstall it. Patch up the gouges in the wood door. This is when it pays to live in an old building. Easy to break into my own storage locker!
Make an appt to take The Green Hornet in for her pre-tri tune up. Decide to bite the bullet and clean my chain. For the first time. For some reason, it has intimidated me. Get it pretty darned clean, and wash down the whole bike. She's gleaming. Then I notice my poor, beloved Marin Larkspur, who's never once had her chain cleaned. I clean her up too. Everybody's clean, dry, lubed and locked up safe. My hands are filthy.
Oh, and I bought a rice cooker! Haven't used it yet.
Going for echocardiogram in the AM. Going to bed now. Sleep tight, TD!Run like a dachshund! Ride like a superhero! Swim like a three-legged cat!
TE Bianchi Girls Rock
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08-14-2006, 07:16 PM #3
Now in the PNW
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keep practicing Dad, first of many diapers ....
Last edited by Trek420; 03-15-2008 at 12:21 PM.
Fancy Schmancy Custom Road bike ~ Mondonico Futura Legero
Found on side of the road bike ~ Motobecane Mixte
Gravel bike ~ Salsa Vaya
Favorite bike ~ Soma Buena Vista mixte
Folder ~ Brompton
N+1 ~ My seat on the Rover recumbent tandem
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08-14-2006, 07:23 PM #4
Team Danger Dachsund!
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Awwwwwwwwww!!! Thanks, Trek! I love how little Jalen's right hand is going so fast it's just a blur!
Even with as many of these little guys as I'm privileged to see, I delight in each one!
Run like a dachshund! Ride like a superhero! Swim like a three-legged cat!
TE Bianchi Girls Rock
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08-14-2006, 07:56 PM #5
matchy matchy
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I just ordered my replacement laptop battery.
because apparently the one I have might start on fire...
Dell battery recall
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08-14-2006, 08:17 PM #6
Zipper Neck & Survivor
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Oh goodie. I'll have to check my battery too.
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08-14-2006, 08:29 PM #7
Seven!
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RATS - 2 batteries going back to Dell
(but thanks for the heads up, WD).
Hey - how was day 1 at the new job?Keep calm and carry on...
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