I thought I’d do a bit of a mid-week post, to update the masses on various things that are going on:

• Things are coming along nicely for our trip out to Washington. Carolyn, as I speak (well sort of), is writing down the list of stuff ta pack. I have begun preparations on my talk for the ring ceremony. I have the 5-10 minutes, now I just have to do some tweakage to make sure it’s a good 5-10 minutes
• Super doubles is going well. If I had the whole week, I’d say it would be my best week ever. I think I could definitely top $1000. As it stands, after 2 days, I have bought $618.92 of groceries for -$9.89. Suave shampoo / conditioner has been my best deal I think. It’s 99 cents (regular price – though I did have one raincheck for 79 cents), and I have coupons for $1/1. It’s doubling it too, so for every shampoo I buy for 99 cents, it takes $2 off my order. Not bad! Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m going to be able to use all my Suave coupons before we have to leave.
• I did a nice bike ride this evening. I have split the original 10 Madeira routes of 6 or so miles into 5 routes of 8-10 miles each. I did one today of 8.32 miles. I wanted to get in a ride tonight since if I didn’t, I might not ride at all this week. It was good, though tiring. Very humid this evening. I also got to check out a street I thought I might have missed in my earlier trip – Paisley Lane. I didn’t notice it when I did this part of Madeira last week, and it was only when I got back home and looked at the map that I saw it. As I rode by it tonight, I rode on it, but I’m definitely going to have to appeal to the powers that be if it’s really a road. And the answer is… no. It was more like a private drive, which I am not counting. To answer Kerry’s question from before about riding on the streets vs. riding on the sidewalks, I ride on the street everywhere. It’s the way you should do it (and safer). Plus, it’s not like this is ride on every sidewalk of Madeira!!! The good news is that most (well, maybe not most, but a good number) of the major roads around here have bike lanes. Well, they’re not exactly bike lanes (with a nice white chalk bike dude) but there’s a good space between the line at the side of the road and the curb. So it’s pretty easy to pass me, except when there aren’t these spaces or I have to move into the road (i.e. if I have to turn left)