cleanliness anyway

god certainly noticed that i showed up at church this morning only to buy large quantities of equal exchange coffee for home and office. but god also knows where my heart is, so we're cool.

so it is quiet at the office this morning, the ideal setting for working a little magic with SWMM-EXTRAN and DOS , or what passes for DOS these days. yes, it is still possible in this modern age. tomorrow morning i will be able to tell whether there is any benefit, it terms of reduced frequency of overflow from a proposed CSO basin at Oakdale, to restricting the flow from Wood County, Ohio. no, the names were not changed to protect the innocent; i am relying on total obscurity here.

yesterday we had a great morning at the track. my 10-year-old decided he didn't want to try riding, and although i thought he could probably do it, and that the people at the 'drome would certainly give him lots of encouragement, i didn't want to push him into something that could be discouraging. we will work on different things at home. but the 15-year-old got out there and rode around quite a bit. he is strong, but needs to get more comfortable riding close in a paceline. he tended to drift back, which is the same thing he does when he follows me on the road. i believe he can keep up, but he doesn't seem comfortable being right on my wheel, and then he loses the advantage of drafting and it gets harder. so we'll work at that. my self, i had a fine time slashing around. next time i want someone to time me on a flying 200. i mean i know i suck, but i still want a point of sucking reference, to judge relative suckitude and see how i progress over the summer.

and the commuter fixed was whisper-quiet after applying chain lube, which we confirmed riding to washtenaw dairy last night for some ice cream (see? i got them out on bikes a couple of times yesterday!). of course i couldn't show off my punkazoid street cred skidding awesomeocity with no lockring yet, but when the shorter spindle arrives it will be only a matter of time.