Last night we went with Ryan and Andrew to Red Lobster for dinner. We had a good time, came back and watched the pilot of LOST with Andrew. I'd crashed by the end of it but from what I hear he enjoyed it, and is probably hooked.

We just got back from San Francisco. We got up at 8am, and took Eighmee's parents (for her dad's b-day), and Ryan, there to see the Maritime Museum. It wasn't all that exciting, but they had a cool exibit of William Coulter paintings of the bay that they were interested in. We had a great lunch at some Italian cafe closer to Pier 39, then drove to the Golden Gate Bridge and walked across and back. It was windy-as-hell and pretty cold even with a windbreaker, but it was a nice break from Stocktons baking temperatures. Also of note, we made a total of three Starbucks 'runs' during the outting (x5 people = 15 cups met their demise). Not bad! :o)

Not much to report. I've gone about 120 miles for the week (most for a week so far) but I think I'm about done at least for this week. The Yahoo's forecast yields >100F temps for the next five days and I just about killed myself yesterday doing a 27 mile ride to Lodi at 4:30. I rested a while while I was there, but two bottles of water getting there and back almost wasn't enough. Once I got back I downed a bottle of water, some OJ and a half-glass of chocolate milk, weighed myself and I was down 5 lbs from when I left. 5 lbs! Over the course of the evening I think I downed 2 more bottles of water, ice cream, and a Whopper Jr meal with a Coke from Burger King before I was starting to feel more satiated and back up to my more-normal 155 lbs.

So needless to say, another live-and-learn. Don't go out on 100+ days during the peak-heat hours. :o)

Over the past two or three weeks our DSL connection has been cutting out, often in the mornings we'd have to reset our modem and connection would be fine, and periodically it'd spontaneously drop connection while you're in the middle of doing something. Well Sunday morning it died for good with our Speedstream modem continuously cycling through various light combinations. So yesterday after work it was still not working after about 80 resets so I called AT&T, and first-tier support said they weren't getting any response from the modem and sent the cast to 'Line Support' who called back a few hours later and said that chances are our modem was effed. We could either be mailed a new one and get billed for it, or just go to BestBuy and pickup a new one. So we did and got a new Speedstream 4100 for about seventy bucks. A tiny little modem, that indeed fixed the problem and got the packets flowing once again.

Eighmee's New Trek

So Eighmee's been wanting to try riding bikes with me but has been without a bike for quite a long time. So today after work we headed over to Robby's Bicycle Shop and picked out a Trek 1000 WSD that she liked and got it outfitted it with the typical bottle cage, pack, spare tube, etc. I also picked up a Blackburn floor pump. All for about 700 bucks. We got it home and did a short feel-it-out ride doing several laps (maybe a mile) around a nearby circle. My first take: not the best componants, but the Trek 1000 WSD has a fantasticly light and rigid frame, fork and wheelset combination for the money. I figure if she really takes to biking the componants can always be upgraded to 105s or Ultegras.