I just installed new windshield wipers on the car. It took a few minutes just to decipher the little latching mechanism, but once that was figured out it was only a matter of moments to get them all on.

Marcella has been saying for a while she thought I needed them, and it’s been raining lots and lots here for some time now. Sure enough, the rubber squeegee strip on the rear hatch window wiper broke loose the other day and was just flapping around; not very effective.

Just watch though, now that I’ve replaced them we’ll start having another drought.

I hope everybody understands that I wrote this post solely to use the word squeegee. That’s twice!

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I did get out this morning on the bike, but my ride was shortened when it began to rain a bit. It wasn’t raining hard, just a few sprinkles, but I decided to turn around and head towards home rather than pushing onward. I can take a certain degree of cold, but when you add wet to the mix sometimes that changes the game.

As it turned out it still hasn’t begun to pour, but them’s the breaks. I did end up with a little over eleven miles, so at least I can be happy that I crawled out of bed and made the attempt.

I think today I’ll try and take care of some household activities—vacuuming, laundry, stuff like that. Later on I might write up another article or two, and in the late afternoon the Tour of California will begin and I hope to watch some of that on Versus. Mario Cipollini is coming out of retirement and is expected to ride today. That should be fun to see.

So there’s my plan for Sunday in a nutshell. I hope everyone out there has a good day today.

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