Finding excuses

Ok, so I'll start listing excuses for why I didn't ride in today ...

My legs are still aching. From like, last week.
Three days I rode in this week! Three! I did that last week. That ain't bad.
Tired.
Short day at work today, so I want to get home quickly.
I have to go to the post office after work to mail something.

Yeah, they're all pretty lame. Thus, I need to make up for today and mayhaps the July 4th as well. That's 60 miles. Screw that. I'll make up for today. And then some. So that's a 2.5 hour ride for the weekend, sometime. I wanted to ride last weekend Saturday a.m., but of course I lazied my way out of that, too. I have some time now, so maybe I'll go find at least a route.

Went driving again for a short trip with Maria at the wheel last night. Things went well. She's getting better at navigating the roundabouts. It's amazing how big of a difference hand positioning on the steering wheel makes. In on position, you need to do hand-over-hand. In the other, just big sweeping swings back and forth.

I feel that we should just keep on working on the fundamentals. That is, speed, braking, lane-changing and turning. When it comes to parking, I just tell her to put it into a spot. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not. But basically it's just like turning onto a very narrow, very specifically-located street. Which, as you can see above, is one of the fundamentals.