The week

[bill_schubert]

I just checked my schedule this week and it is empty other than US Open.  Dana and I tried to get her military ID card renewed on Friday.  It is a 45 minute drive down into Austin to a base and still a little PIA from there.  Usually a half day ordeal at best.  Got there only to find out they had closed to make a four day holiday.  I wouldn't have minded if they had it on a web site or on their phone message.  But not much we could do.  So Tuesday we'll try again.  We've still got a month before it expires but I don't want to put it off.

I'm so happy to have my car back!  It is running fine and I now park in the very end of the space where the problem of no reverse happened.  If I don't have reverse again I can crank over the steering wheel and go out forward.  So nice to have a car that only uses up half a space.  I actually think they did not fix what was the issue but I'm just going to be careful where I park and now worry about it.  I can push the car back as long as it is not on a hill.

Today was a bike day.  It is really hard to get very excited about riding in this kind of heat (it is showing 100 on my Echo show) but I did get in about 40 minutes before calling it this morning.  And I'm going to go out again tomorrow.  Days when there is little traffic (Sunday and Labor Day) I've got a local route that I can ride.  It crosses a very busy road so only days that are quiet are good ones for it.  Tomorrow is one so I'll go out two days in a row.  It was just four years ago I was riding 20 mile rides at about 100 miles a week.  What a change.  Not sure how to attribute it but I'm going to talk to my doc when I have my annual checkup later this month.  It might just be age and how it effects a physical layoff.