Week's End

A week back from Georgia and I've had way too much going on and only some of it good.

The roof and bedroom walls of my apartment have decided to spring a leak and now the wall in our bedroom and the bedroom closet is buckled in, weeping gypsum from water contamination, and is in need of serious repair. This happened before in September because of the rain Chicago received from the remnants of Hurricane Ike, but all the landlord did was patch and paint the wall without actually fixing the root cause of the problem, that being a hole somewhere outside that lets rainwater in whenever it rains a lot.

Infuriating, especially when all of your clothes and your girlfriend's clothes are in baskets all over the apartment because the closet is unusable. Pictures have been taken and the landlords have been contacted -- let's see if something positive comes of this.

Training's been a positive thing this week. Commuting felt great, hard intensities felt better, and I'm taking the day off the bike today to save my juice for a long jaunt to Calumet Park to scope out things for our races next week.