Today the rain held up long enough for me to walk the bike to the LBS for a checkup on my reassembly job. I told them the bike had been very professionally packed by Chris Robinson, and then very unprofessionally reassembled by me. They laughed. They also said they'd check it over and fix all my mistakes, be they of omission or comission.

The good weather lasted long enough for a stroll around town, then it started to pour again for an hour or so. Long enough that my newspaper, which the delivery guy had optimistically left on the stoop with no plastic wrapper, was soaked through by the time I got home -- literally a washout. Oh well. Probably no good news anyway. But I did want to check the weather forecast. I'm hoping it'll be good enough tomorrow that I can ride the bike home.