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It's a long weekend here ("Memorial day"), so I'm heading out cycling. I'm going with my friend Paul from Waterloo.
I've had a littlel flurry of spending here -- clipless (SPD) pedals (no platforms, unlike my other ones), a 3L Camelback backpack/bladder deal (with a hose that comes over your shoulder so you can drink without much effort, an iPod Shuffle (1GB), and a 60GB external Firewire harddrive (which turns out to be a bad drive, apparently.) The iPod replaces my iRiver, since iRiver failed twice to answer my warranty emails. Bastards.
So Monday's a holiday, then I work Tuesday and Wednesday, and fly out Thursday, arriving Friday back in Dublin. It's gone pretty quickly this time, what with having a more proper place to stay, and an imported social life -- I've been hanging out a lot with the others from the Dublin office, plus Seth who came to visit Dublin.
Looking forward to the cycling...Weather looks okay. I have no particular plans -- to San Francisco today, but then no idea. No accomodations books; hopefully I'll be able to find a hostel. We'll see if my experience arriving randomly in European cities transfers well to SF. I have in my head to go north along the coast from there, but beyond that I don't really know.
