On Excessive Driving

I had to go to London Ontario to a client site this weekend. Sucks.

I had to drive to London Ontario to a client site this weekend. Sucks worse.

I had to drive to London Ontario to a client site this weekend and apparently the weather was great for riding back home. Sucks balls it sucks so bad!

I had to... oh you get the idea and someone else ran a club ITT and in one day got a bigger turn out than I could despite all my begging and pleading. Since I am practicing not swearing (I've had to spend the day in the presence of clients.) I will not say what I'm thinking.

It gets better.

Yesterday (Friday) I packed up the servers for the client site and we brought them down, only we discovered that the servers, HP Proliant DL 380s were incompatible with the HP Proliant DL 180 rack rails that were in the boxes. Ooops, that would be a my bad. So I had to schlep back to the office in Richmond Hill (200km most assuredly Not in on the saddle.) Get said rack mount rails and haul back to London Ontario. Total distance driven (thanks to traffic jams and a car with no working air conditioning in 37 degree heat), since Friday night, 670km. Total distance ridden: Zilch, bupkiss, nadda, ZERO!

At least I may have discovered a great place for an ITT, in my efforts to keep a wind happening so I wouldn't melt in the car I drove on some back roads, and well this might just work.

It is a lot further than the traditional ITT circuit, but that might be a good thing. Drive out to some point near the start and ride from there as a warm up. No riding in crowded cities, and ITT on a flat circuit... mind you, if we are doing an ITT, and driving to the start... hmmm, rural Ontario out near Kitchener Waterloo might work. Then after we could all go to the Math Building at U(W) and watch Michael gag as I enjoy the memories of undergraduate skule.