Flat Tire on My Road Bike

I got my first flat tire on my road bike today. I was on 2400 South and 400 West. That is not an ideal location to have a flat tire. No bike shops in sight. None within ten blocks. If I wanted to trek up to 800 East I could have gotten to Guthrie. Nope. I walked to the train station instead, went downtown, exchanged the 15 Euros I had left over from our trip in 2006, and went to the Gateway.

Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Gateway has about as much bike stuff as Target – which means not enough for me to get what I needed. I bought spoons, a tire that I thought would work, and a pump. How inconvenient! I’m gonna hafta start bringing my own gear along…I had gone so long without a flat on my road bike that I thought it was immune or something. Nothing doing.

Also, I cracked the glass on my iPhone today. I’m bummed about that. It still works just fine, but it looks a little funky now. I’m going to take it in on Saturday and see what they can do for me. Hopefully they will be able to at least replace the glass for me or something. There’s no way I’m paying $200 for a glass replacement (current prices) if they aren’t going to hook me up. I mean, the new phone comes out tomorrow and it is only $199. Dude.
We’ll see…

More From The Train

Dude, one of the best things about riding the train is that I finally get to blog…what do I have to write about?…

I’ve been pretty handy lately. I’ve had this list of projects to do around the house for about fifty thousand years and I finally started. What’s been interesting is finding out just how cheap a lot of them are. For instance, it’s not terribly expensive to paint. Most basic interior doors are less than 50 bucks. So, I painted all of the trim around the outside of the house two weeks ago. Last week I hung a door in our entry way, which is going to cut our heating and cooling bill in half I swear. First try too. I was pretty proud of myself. They say it is pretty hard to hang doors. I had a good time with it. I’ve owned a set of chisels for about six years and have never had any reason to use them until I got to hang a door. Totally exciting. I chiseled out the holes for everything but the handle. Way fun. I think when school is done I am going to get a block of wood and carve something. I think it would be fun. Then this last weekend Becca and I busted out a magical dining room paint job, two tones, three coats all over. It took most of the day to do it, but we got it done. Good on us. Then I learned how to use a string trimmer to make my lawn look really stinking good.

Overall, this summer is turning out really cool. If only we could take a trip to Disneyland before the end, I think it would be complete. We’ll see.

I’ve been waiting for someone to comment on any of my posts, but apparently my blog is just boring enough that no one wants to say anything about my stupidity.

Do me a favor…if you read my blog, leave an amen. Just click Add a Comment and write Amen. That’s it. I am just curious if anyone even reads this….