Had meatloaf and mashed potatoes for 3 out of 4 consecutive meals, only because I didn't want it for breakfast, but I wonder how it'd be in a breakfast sandwich with an egg. Hmmm, something to try the next time. CUSL-Competitive was good last night, nice and cool and the ground was soft. We lost 14-16 after being up 14-12, but otherwise I thought it was a pretty good game. Felt pretty good running. However when I got home and tried walking my right ankle was pretty messed up, couldn't really put any weight on it. But after some movement, and some ice, it's back to it's normal state today. Good thing I'm getting it checked out next Thursday. Hoping it's nothing too serious and maybe some rehab is all I need. Of course, it's possible the ankle is really screwed up from Potlatch 2004, and I've been compensating ever since, so maybe there's a whole lot wrong with it. Find out Thursday. Tried to get some Residential Daily Parking passes today, but since I placed an online order, I can't place an additional order in person. And apparently I can't make more than one order at a time. Headed to Taste of Chicago tonight. Cleaning tomorrow.

I told Tracy that I want to get back to cooking, since she does pretty much all of it since we got married. So I get one night a week. So I made meatloaf last night. I like meatloaf. It's simple, and comfy, and down home, and so good. And you can make sandwiches, and it's quite a filling meal. Of course, I didn't get around to the other things I had planned for last night, like exercising and some cleaning, but I'm putting that off until Friday, when I won't be working, but Tracy will be. Biking yesterday was good, but it was odd to be cool enough to wear arm sleeves on the way home. Definitely odd. And I'm wondering if I brought enough clothes for ultimate tonight. Which means I drove in again to work. Tried a different garage this time. Not sure when I'll try biking down again, but maybe in a couple weeks. Also, the Airport Expresses are still acting flaky, which is really annoying.

Back to exercising. Back to riding. Went for a run when I got home last night, jogged up to Montrose and did some runs up that little hill there. It's better than nothing. After that I worked on the bikes a little bit, to get them back up and running, pumped tires, tweaked the drive train on the Sprint so no more grinding or skipping, but now creaking again, so I'll have to grease it up a bit again. If it's not one thing, it's another. I still have to clean out the drive train on the mtb. Rode in this morning, nice and cool, even to the point where I might use pants on the ride home, or maybe arm sleeves. Changed the Airport Expresses back to using a switch instead of all connecting wirelessly. Hoping the new 7.4.2 firmware update on the extending 802.11n Express will help prevent drop outs. Wonder if a Powerline network would make it work better. Here's hoping. Forgot to mention that my brother lost a bunch of weight, and looks almost too skinny. And for the first time in our lives, I weigh more than he does. I'm longer the little brother.

Helped pull off a surprise birthday party for my Mom. Dad, Al and especially Joy and Mary Lou and Carmi did all the work putting it together. It was awesome. Except for Tracy and I having to drive 2 hours in traffic to get there on Friday night. Besides that, we probably could have been a little more organized, including the guest list, but we did as best we could, on relatively short notice. Aside from that, the other big news from the weekend was Tracy doing and completing her first Triathlon, the sprint distance at the Bigfoot Triathlon up in Lake Geneva. I'm so impressed she pulled it off. I wouldn't have made the decision, did all the training (by herself), and ran the race on an extremely windy day (15-20mph). Seriously awesome. She's got another, Harbor Lights Triathlon up in Waukegan on July 19. And I get to be a tri-husband again, and at yesterday's event, it made me happy that I wasn't the only one. I did update her Facebook status as she competed, and tried to take photos and videos as best I could. Got to hang out with the family for a bit, since Al and Nicole were around. Scouted out the course on Saturday and realized that we should head up to Lake Geneva for a day or weekend and not to swim, bike and run in a competition. And a couple other things I've figured out: how the bike rack attaches to the trunk of the car, so we can now take our bikes out to places that have hills for a ride; and that I need to set an alarm if I want to get up with enough time to prep for bike commuting.