This weekend was all over the map, both literally and metaphorically. Much of it I won’t go into.

The big news from today is… I finally bought a bike! Sure, it’s a $130 model built in some commie country on the other side of the planet, but if some thief decides to be gone with the Schwinn, well, I won’t be out all that much. We did an inaugural bike ride around Harriet and then the Isles this evening–my first real ride since I trashed my last bike in cinematic crash back 1999–and it was a lot of fun. I need to get a better seat than the P.O.S. that came with the bike, but otherwise it seems to fit me pretty well.

I kind of wondered if the bike ride was going to show me to be out of shape, but not really. I guess all that walking I’ve been doing for the past seven years was good for something. Now I just need to get a camera mount for the front of the bike. Hmmm. Lisa is going to love that.

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Saturday was kind of interesting. Lisa and I jumped in the SUV–more on that later–and headed to Stillwater since, really, we had nothing better to do. We had a really bad lunch at some crank diner along the main strip, and then wandered across the bridge and watched the boats for a while. (Note to self: Lisa does not respond well to jokes about the bridge opening without any warning.) We probably would’ve walked around some more, but it was brutally hot, so we retreated home to air conditioning and then went and grabbed dinner at Kahn’s Mongolian Barbecue. (Note to self, Part II: The Roseville Kahn’s is nowhere near as crowded as the Richfield Kahn’s, and just as good.)

Beyond that, there’s not much else fit or right for report. I have an 8:00 meeting tomorrow morning, which is dreadfully early for me, so I guess I should hit it.

More later.