Michael Fogleman

Went to Target 'cuz Sandra suffers shopping withdrawal if we don't go to a store (even if it's a grocery store) within any 24-hour period, or something like that. =) I've been wanting to get a bike so I'd get myself out of the house a little more often so I headed to the back where the bikes are located. One of them caught my eye so I pulled it off the rack and started looking at it and seeing if it was a good size for me. Of course, as I sit on the bike some employee tells me not to ride in the store. Geez dude, I just want to see if I really want to buy it, and I haven't even hardly moved. Anyway, I decided to get it. Taking it home was a pain in the butt. It has a quick release front-wheel but I couldn't figure out how to get the brakes out of the way to actually get the wheel off. (I've since figured this out.) So I ended up putting the rear seats down and tossing the bike in the trunk. Of course, the trunk wouldn't close so I went inside to see if someone could give me some twine or something to tie the trunk shut. The employees were about 0% helpful so I went back outside in frustration. Of course, it was also RAINING (like it has been all freaking weekend) so I was getting soaked and just wanted to leave. So that's what we did. The whole time I just knew the trunk was gonna bounce up and my trunk get flooded with water. Well, somehow we made it home without it opening (just a lot of slight bouncing and creaking) and everything was a-okay. (Except my attitude... I was kind of annoyed about the whole situation.) Anyway, now I have my bike which I really like but STILL have not ridden due to this crap weather. But I can take pictures:

I also bought new tires for my car. I bought some good ones. My old ones got 75,000 miles on them, which is pretty much a ridiculously large amount of mileage for one set of tires. I'm happy with them so far. Got them in time for our trip to NC next weekend. Yay!

posted by Michael  # 6/25/2006 08:00:00 PM 2 Comments