Saturday, April 12, 2008

Isolated Rain Shower

I had a dark cloud over my head today.

I finally had a chance to ride some trails down in Baltimore/DC last weekend. Yay!

I was back down there for a couple of nights and went for another ride on the trails yesterday. Yay!

Today, I'm supposed to meet up with Demo DaveO and our Philly sales rep for a ride, before heading into Philly to hang out with Lockwood. The forecast is calling for scattered thunderstorms, and if the drive home is any indication of what's to come, they are going to be heavy.

So I thought I'd better sneak out for a little ride this morning while it was still bright and sunny. Just something to spin out the legs after yesterday's hard singlespeed affair. To the beach and back. Sounds good.

Frazier was wanting some exercise, so I hopped on the bike and rode down the street with him trotting along. He managed to find something disgusting to eat. Probably a dead fish or some poo. Hooray.

Anyhoo...I got him back and noticed the sky was changing to grey, clouds were approaching and the wind was picking up. I start to pedal out and decide to go a different direction in case it started to pour. There are lots of straight-as-an-arrow flat roads around here that link up to other roads of the same ilk. It was doing that big-drop sprinkle thing, so I decided to do a giant square and head back to the house.

Just as I turned on to the road here, it started to rain quite hard. The house is 2 miles or so from the other end of the road, and it rained hard on me the whole way. Just enough to ensure that I was soaked by the time I got home.

To add insult, I looked to my left and noticed the gorgeous multitude of blue sky. It was just a passing shower, but one that followed me every direction I went. Within 5 minutes after getting back to the house it stopped raining and all evidence of the passing rain was gone.

Unbelievable. My luck couldn't be any worse!

In lighter news, today is Simon's birthday. Happy Birthday man with lovely lips, and eyes like limpid pools! Or, LLLP. ;~)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Simon!!!

Anonymous said...

Did you get a wet fanny Chris ?