And tire rotation day. Not raining so hard, though I expect to get fairly wet after dropping off my truck. I guess it best to walk home rather then ride, I’m a bit on the fence. I think by the time I unload the bike from truck, ride back, I’d get wetter then just walking home. If necessary, I’ll I can catch a bus. I won’t melt in the rain.

Fingers crossed that things will go well with the inspection. I know the lights, tires, and windshield wipers are good, so that’s two thirds of the inspection. I worry too much but if there is a deficiency in the suspension that needs to get fixed, it will get fixed. But it seems okay, things haven’t really gotten worse this year, and the truck is old at this point. Who knows, this might be the last inspection or maybe not. Just got to get through it.

Cornmeal pancakes this morning, along with shredded oatmeal and a banana. I also kneaded up some apple-cinnamon bread which is rising in the oven, and I will bake later this morning. Thinking about also making some red-lentil soup on this cold rainy December morning. This should be a good day taking off, not having to worry about getting dressed up for work. Besides cooking, I want to do some reading and working on code. Albany County published their official results — in an Excel file — yeah! so I may want to make some maps up. I might go down to the library when I pick up my truck this afternoon, as there is some data I would like to pull off the internet and don’t want to use too much mobile bandwidth.

Weekend still looks like rain, at least come Sunday. Not going to camping this weekend, just because I want to do more then one night, and not in the rain. I might take off the second half of next work week, depending on the status of the database update at work. I was looking at a photo I took of my bike and realized that the lock wasn’t on the hanger fairly on, so that narrows down the places I could have lost the lock. It’s possible — maybe even likely — I took it off when I started riding due to the rough terrain and it falling off, and it’s somewhere in my apartment. I’ll go back looking on the bike trail on Saturday morning. Once the snow and ice melt today, along with the much smaller area for search, I think that will increase my chances of finding it. Without the key it’s not likely particularly valuable to most people to be stolen..