Where has the time gone???

[ianuk]

Well, it seems that I'm behind on sewing...my plan to be done with my dress by Thursday night is looking...optimistic. Now, if I had not gone to scribble on monday I might have gotten things further done but eh, we had stuff to work out to deliver to the crown for upcoming events (including a scroll I had that I finished that night) so I can't say I wasted time. But I have an engagement on Thursday night that I need to go to and well, I'm not sure how late I want to stay up. It will all depend on if we can get Benton down for the night and snug him in the car seat before we leave the house so he will sleep through our engagement and then come home and go to bed. So, I've decided that when the time gets crunched...the To Do list appears.

Our plan is to leave early Friday AM so we can tool around Prescott and hit up some antique stores and a yarn shop. I want it to be nice and stress free and if I finish sewing things on the way up there, so be it. We are staying at the Holiday Inn Express (I get a good rate due to my Gold Status) so we know we will be comfortable and have breakfast there.

Just need to get things ready and hopefully tonight I can knock out the dress stuff better and feel okay about running errands with the boy when I pick him up thursday later afternoon before we head home for things course...Prescott has a costco....hmmmmm. That might work.

This morning Benton had very gummy eyes and a snotty nose. Both of which he didn't like me cleaning out but he was a much happier camper that he could breath/eat without a nose full. Not sure what that means but it could just be that he got the tail end of my cold or teething is making him snotty. Babies leak and there is nothing much you can do about it.

Oh, on the book front I read #14 Every Women's Guide to Cycling.... It was okay. I think it glossed over things that I really wanted to know about i.e. bike stuff and then it went overly much into training schedules which I was kinda meh on. But I guess I got what I paid for.

I'm now reading #15 for the year Raven's Strike by Patricia Briggs. Its sucking me in and a fun romp.



To Do for Crown:
1) Hem dress (50%)
2) Attach front straps
3) Attach back straps
4) Attach trim
5) Pack Benton stuff for trip
6) Have Ed bring Pack and Play to Thursday night
7) Get luncheon stuff organized: Chx, cheese and bread
8) Make some banana bread
9) Pack Banners
10) Find shawl/shawl pin
11) pack chairs and small table/stools
12) Pack cooler: ice, drinks, 4 gallons of water.
13) Pack serving ware for chix, cutting board/bread knife.
14) Go to costco for stuff.
15) Go to Target for diapers
16) Attempt to not stay up too late to accomplish any of this...yeah, right.

Comments

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

once upon a time i had a spiral bound, lay flat, small size, fit in the cycle bag guide to do it yourself maintanence and repairs, plus a basic "this is your bike" book...
i wonder if they still make it...

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Do-Yourself-Bike-Book/dp/1600940242/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
not the same book, but looks REALLY useful

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

That does look like an awesome book...unfortunately, the info I was hoping for wasn't about maintenance it was about fit. She only gave the basics and then stated "go get a good fit with your bike shop" which doesn't help me when I want to do adjustments on the fly.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

generally? when the pedal is all the way down you want your knee to be still slightly flexed. if you straightened your knee (stood on the pedal) your ass should be up off the seat.
in my considered opinion, (having bad knees) the bike shops tend to adjust with insufficient flex.. that is most women's bikes are adjusted to leave our knees too straight. i suspect we need our knees a TAD more flexed than men. but i do mean just a touch.

and obviously you would like in an ideal circumstance to have the frame be such a size that (if short) you CAN get that fit, or (if tall) you can do it without having the seat at maximum.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Its not that adjustment that I want to know more about its the handlebars etc..I've finally gotten (well, I had gotten before I was preggers) things worked out for seat placement and pedal flex and tilt but I still think my handlebars/grips aren't right.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

THAT is an incredibly personal adjustment. i know some people who are teh exact same measurements i am whose hand bar adj drives me nuts (and vice versa)
a great deal of that depends on whether you bike bent down, or sitting up right, and to what degree.... the racing folks usually are bent over and their hand bar grips are far too low for me.

[ceciliamowebray.livejournal.com]

I just started reading Patricia Briggs - I'm on the 5th of the Mercy Thompson books. It's funny - she breaks a bunch of writing "rules", but I still love them. It just goes to show that an interesting world/characters/plot can make up for style and pacing.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, her early stuff does some strange things with the story telling that grate on my nerves when they happen and then I forget about them until it happens again.

Course we know there are lots of rules for writing, like grammar, that people break all the time and still sell books (ala Twilight)

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

Bar fit is a combination of the bar itself, rise, and reach.

Once you have the right size bar (I *love* Salsa Short n Shallows) can you justify a fully adjustable stem? You can really fiddle when you don't have to change everything over and over.

For default, I tend to line up the bottom drop to be in-line with my knee at the bottom of the stroke, and move from there.

This page helped me when I was having trouble.

Here's hoping to a dry baby and a fun weekend!

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

crum, I forgot to include the link!
http://www.jimlangley.net/crank/bikefit.html