Monkeying with Tires and Avenging

My plan was to, starting Thursday, bike more regularly to get used to being on my bike many days in a row and to start rowing again.

I rode my bike to work on Thursday, but got stuck there too late to get to rowing practice, so I just rode home at the end of the day.

Today, Friday, I was at a stoplight and saw that my new tires that I bought at the MS150 starting point had cuts and gouges in them. So, after work, I drove to North St. Paul to return them to the shop from which I bought them in Hinckley. They didn't have my regular standby tires (photo below) in stock, so I went to my neighborhood shop and got them from a woman with the most beautiful and numerous tattoos. She has a really soft voice and reminds me of a non-tattooed person, but I can't think of whom.

I am going to try to get up early tomorrow to put them on my bike and ride to rowing practice. We'll see.

I'm trying to cram in a lot of stuff tomorrow so that I can get an early start to go to Wisconsin on Sunday. There is a memorial service on Monday for the father of my best friend from childhood. I pretty much lived at their house, which was one block away. Their phone number was only one digit different than ours. I was a sedentary kid, and Mr. Kersten used to tease me and call me "Muscles." I think he would be amused by my attempts to be active.

Speaking of my attempts to be active, I just (finally) watched The Avengers. I decided that the superpowers that would come in most handy for me are those of the Black Widow. She's very athletic and resourceful. As a bonus, she is not huge, so she wouldn't have the same sort of wind resistance as the Hulk or Captain America. I was looking for an action shot from the movie. Most images show her standing still, looking sexy, although in the movie, she was always on the go. I'd like her endless energy and good flexibility - that would come in handy on the MS TRAM.

Ah, poop. Neither the tire photo nor the Black Widow photo are loading properly. I think I need to download an update for my phone blogging app. Sorry about the lack of images!