Another Exciting Day

Due to the large amount of work my office has been facing I've been working 7 days a week, about 80 hours a week, to try and get stuff done. So here I am, sitting at my desk and computer yet again. At least I get overtime. The house still hasn't sold. We will likely have to drop the price as the other homes in the neighborhood have been dropping there's. The market is very slow right now. Reno is still moving, but Carson is a slug. Bad for us. The house has about 10 years left at full payments, about 7 or 8 years of payments left at our current payment rate. Might end up having to rent it out the way it is going. Just have to wait and see.

House and Fire

A new fire started yesterday by Virginia Highlands. Looked like a small nuke had gone off. The helicopters are refueling across the street from our office. They've been busy. Our house has been painted and should be getting cabinets this week if they get the driveway cleared out. The builder evidently forgot a minor little thing on our neighbor's house. . .no water line was run up to the pad. So, looks like they are finally putting it in. Put a nice ditch next to our place and even more dirt on the driveway. Paint looks good inside for the most part. They definitely screwed up on a couple of spots mainly from removing masking tape before the paint was dry. Pretty easy fixes. The color isn't correct in the photos. It should actually be only a very slight off white color. Not that yellow but the sunlight streaming in the windows was pretty off colored due to thunderstorms and smoke.

Selected our Granite Slabs today

Here's a picture of the first one. Basically all look the same. Not too exciting but that's about all that's going on with the house right now. They are going to paint and I assume put in the cabinets this week.

The Death Ride Part I Tour of the California Alps

See the posting below for a better explanation.

Death Ride 2006 Tour of the California Alps

Here's the pictures from Debra and I on the Death Ride. We only did about 100 miles and 11,000 foot of climbing. We just didn't have enough get up and go, or desire, to complete the last pass. Plus, the weather was going downhill in a hurry. For the last 3.5 miles we were riding in some of the hardest rain I have ever riden in. I was literally spitting out mouthfuls of water when we were on the downhill stretch. About 1 inch of water was on the road and lightening was hitting the trees around us as we descended. Very scarey all around. About 3000 riders participated and 1700 completed all five passes. I guess we'll have to see if we can get in again next year to complete #5!

Another Biking Thread

Went biking around Tahoe for another training ride before the Death Ride this Saturday. We rode 83 miles including a side trip to Fallen Leaf Lake. I often post on the forums on Roadbikereview.com and ended up meeting up with a gentleman and his wife from Wisconsin. The mountains were a little large and the air a little thin for them but they did fine. We also rode for the first time with Susan and her friend Richard. Richard rode on a mountain bike with road wheels and looked a little worn out by the end but did well overall. We got lots and lots of traffic near the end of the ride with plenty of thunderstorms to add to the fun. Anyway, here's the pics.