Oct 30 - mostly man about the house

I talked to Carol who was having a problem with her laptop.  I'm not sure if she got that resolved, will have to call her. 

I talked to Alain Abbate about bike transport logistics for 30-50 bikes from Fort Myers Beach to Key West -- this is going to be the most difficult part of organizing this ride ! 

Two calls is more calls that I usually do in a day ... far cry from my "working" days !

Performance Bike is/was having a 25% off sale so I ordered a bunch of parts for the new bike -- shifters, bottom bracket, front and rear derailleurs, crankset, bars, headset and brakes (brakes from a different place).  I may or may not order a Titanium seatpost; will likely want a Ti stem and spacer both of which I'll get from the place that is building my fork.  The first piece of the new bike arrived from Germany -- the Ti rear rack.

Tires for the M5 are due to arrive today while we're at Disney.  Abby can look after them.  Lisa is looking after Abby.

I went over to my doctor's new office location and filled in all the obligatory intake forms.  I had to chuckle that the first form was with regard to travel to Africa ... there should have been a question "do you think you might have or been exposed to Ebola" but it wasn't that blunt.  I listed my travel as Canada, that 4th world country way up north.

Sandy did more weeding and removed a couple of large plants and in the process, broke a pvc pipe connection and water was welling up from the ground.  It wasn't her fault, very poor glue job -- in fact, I couldn't detect any glue holding the one pipe to the joint so I just cleaned it up and re-glued.  I expected that I'd have to cut both pieces and insert a new one but that wasn't necessary.  There are now rocks around the connection in the ground.   

On the way back from the doctor's office, which is at SR 44 and I 95, I stopped at Home Depot to pick up another magnetic tool bar and decided to pick up some shelf brackets to put a shelf on the wall over the garage door.  They're not quite right so I'll trade these in for something smaller or another approach.   The ones that I bought would raise the shelf up too high to be really useful.  Attaching to that wall is a bit of a pain since it's concrete block, so I also bought anchors with screws ... seems that you can't buy lead anchors any more, gone the way of the Dodo with DDT.

Today we head to Disney, Epcot namely.  We're meeting Jason et al at the Japanese pavilion for lunch and then we have dinner reservations at the same restaurant, same time but not at the same table.  They couldn't expand their existing reservation -- perhaps we can push the tables together, assuming that we're close ?  I doubt it :).

We've purchased Florida Resident season passes, the weekday version.  For slightly more than two days full fare, we have a season pass.  When we arrive today we'll get the passes with our pictures on them.  We were talking later that we could do any park hopping that we wanted with season passes. 

I wonder what Halloween at Epcot will be like ?  Watch this space ....

We ate at the SYC, which was basically free since we'd be paying for October anyway.  The place was fairly busy when we arrived at 6:30 but there was only one other couple as we left an hour later.  The Tiki was open but quiet as well.   

The weather is looking good for today, high of 79, but only a high of 59F tomorrow and then the temp jumps up again.  It looks like it's going to be cold all the way north -- 50 in Reading; 36 in Barrie (snow tonight); ooh snow today in Sudbury (the cottage) down to 19, high of 33.  I expect that the furnace is finally running.  I'd checked the temperature a couple of days ago and it was 53F inside; the furnace is set for 50.

Onward !