The mothership has landed

I got a message late a couple of nights ago that the new Black Sheep frame has arrived in Germany! Woohoo!

I’m going to pick it up from my buddy this weekend at a race that we’re both attending.

Crazy busy with classes right now. Not to mention, I often have 3 separate classes a day in 3 different parts of the city. That means 3 different levels and in total about 2 hours of travel time. It means basically that I have have about 2 or so hours off between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Phew! Granted, it’s a good problem (being busy, just exhausting).

Still no word on my Deutsch test. I need to give them a call or go by today and check in.

It’s really crappy out today. I’d planned to go for a ride, but I’m not sure that I’ll manage it given that it’s raining off/on and it’s close to freezing. Yuck! Instead, I’m hanging light fixtures and pictures as well as doing laundry and cleaning house. Fun eh?

Christmas markets open this weekend so we might go see them. That’s about all the news.

Quick ride

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FAMILY, FRIENDS AND WORLD!

It’s funny, now that we’ve been here this long (this is our third Thanksgiving), I don’t even think about it. The only reminders were Kera making a pumpkin pie for her co-workers (not me…hmm) and when she was talking to her parents last weekend and they reminded her that is was today. Out of sight, out of mind I guess. It does mean that it’s almost

Glühwein time (hot mulled wine). Woohoo!

In between starting a new class in a Structural engineering company and my regular evening class, I did some laundry (had to do it at a laundrimat as we’re waiting for the new ones to arrive on Friday), waited for the electrician to fix some left over electrical problems from the original installation and then shot out for a short ride… about 1.5 hours. Today it’s a little below freezing and it shows as most of the recent snow is melting here in town even though it is below freezing. You know, it just happens when the sun shines.

The ride felt good. It didn’t hurt that we started back to spin class yesterday. While I’ve been in my integrations course me riding has gone to hell. Hopefully, this will jump-start it again. In theory, there’s a race in a couple of weeks that we did last year, I’d like to do it again. It also didn’t matter that it was a bit sloppy out on the dirt roads as the snow’s melting. When I could, I just ducked in to the singletrack in the woods. That’s what I’d rather ride on anyway.

These shoes = toasty and dry feet. Nice! Thanks LAKE!

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