Almost skipped biking today. Feeling tired and sluggish. A little sore too. But I sucked it up and biked in the drizzle on the way in. Think I figured out my path in and out, mostly. Halsted to Milwaukee and Kedzie for a bit then down Canal. Up Clinton on the way home, but that gets a little crazy by the tracks and Kedzie. It's not bad. Lucy's last day at Grandma daycare. She's off to Park View Montessori School on Monday. Scary. I hope she likes it. We went and visited again on Wednesday morning, so I could see what it's like too, and she left us right away to play at the stations. Hopefully that means good things for Monday morning. But it's a school. Institutional. But Ms. Joanne seems nice. Lots to play with. The few kids that we saw seem nice too. Fingers crossed. Not much else is new.

Third day for Lucy at Day Care. She seems to be adjusting. Tracy worked the last 2 nights and has today off, so she's dropped Lucy off for the first 3 days. I got to pick her up the last 2. So I got the good part, the running to, the "Daddy Daddy". That's mostly nice. They say she only cries when getting dropped off and at recess when they go outside. Otherwise she's fine. And she's been coming back covered in paint, so she's painting and drawing. So that's cool. I get to drop her off tomorrow and Friday so I get to be the one she calls as she cries. Also means I'm coming in to work later than usual, since her room doesn't start until 7:45am. We'll wait until she's more acclimated until we try dropping her off in the early drop off room. I think, and I hope, she's having fun. Picking her up was cool too because I bike home from work on the Sprint, then pick up the Xtracycle and head up to Irving Park via Pine Grove to pick her up. So she gets a little bike ride on the way home. I'll do the same thing in reverse when I drop her off. So she'll get a bike ride in the morning too. Just wanting to get the most use out of that Xtracycle. Like when I dropped off a couple boxes of old clothes at my parents condo, I strapped them on and biked over. Or when I picked up 20 lbs 64 qt bag of Miracle Gro Moisture Control potting mix for Tracy from Home Depot last night. So yeah, living the biking life right now.

Almost 2 weeks into daycare, and Lucy seems to be settling down a bit. 10 minutes of crying in the morning, 1 day with no crying at all. Napping too. So maybe adjusting. But she probably picked up her first of many diseases, just a low grade fever. She gets to watch a lot of Thomas & Friends though. I think she likes the bike ride to school in the morning. ANd the biking is starting to pay off. Starting to lose some weight, clothing starting to fit better again. It's nice. Legs kind of in a constant state of tired though. Strange. I don't even try and go fast, except up the 1 incline on Halsted at Chicago. Otherwise, I'm trying to relax more and enjoy my commutes. Drobo's been complaining about getting low on space, so finally got a couple 3 TB drives. Briefly thought about 4 TB, but cost per GB just in favor of the 3. First rebuild is supposed to take 38 hours, but checking again has jumped to 73. Awesome. And to think I need to do that twice. But then I should be able to repurpose the 2TB's for the Raid 1 Backup drives for the iMac, which means I can finally do a nuke and pave . I'll just wait for Mountain Lion though. I assume there will be an updated Mountain Lion Recovery Partition, and I can start clean all over again. That'll be nice.

For my 2nd Father's Day Lucy got me sick. Yay! Pretty much the only thing she had that she could give me, so I guess it's better than nothing? Lucy ended up going home sick on Friday, with a low grade fever and after throwing up. So Tracy took the day off too. Saturday went to Green City Market as usual, then headed over to Fullerton Beach. Water was freezing, which was shocking to me, up until I realized that it was 10am. Then it made sense. Got some Del Seoul for lunch, to satisfy another craving of mine. Sunday went out to the Argaos, when I got taken out by Lucy's present. Felt like a fever, full body aches. Took a nap, made it home, laid on the floor under a blanket, took a shower, went to bed at 9pm. Woke up like someone punched me in the gut, kind of hard to straighten up. Took some ibu's and after the bike ride in felt much better. And then today, Tracy got it too. So continues the joy of day care. In tech news, first Drobo rebuild complete, and now replaced another 2TB with a 3TB drive. Another 50 hours and I should be good to go for maybe another year or so. Bike ride in to work today was slow because of the wind. Made me worried that it was going to shift and I'd also have a headwind on the way home. But not the case today. Tailwinds are awesome. I used gears I only use on downhills.

Drobo rebuild complete. Yay. Moved the 2x2TB drives into the RAID1 backup for the iMac, so now creating a full clone, instead of leaving stuff out. And now I've got 4x1TB just sitting around. Thinking of getting an OWC Mercury Elite Pro 4-Bay RAID enclosure to use them. Then I'd actually have a backup for the stuff on the Drobo. Maybe next month. Was also tempted to move all the machines to SSDs, but again, maybe not for a couple of months. OWC finally released their USB enclosure for MacBook Air SSDs, so that's tempting. And since the SuperDrive doesn't work in the iMac was going to replace it with an SSD, which actually might provide the most boost, since that gets used the most probably. So maybe. Not sure. Wait and see. Seems like everyone in the family is back to health, although Lucy sneezed on the way to school the other day and I had to wipe away a lot of snot that came out of her nose. Bike commuting's been rough this week, heavy headwinds on the way in, nice tailwinds on the way out, and super hot. I actually had to head back in to work after coming home last night to replace a drive on a server. I thought it'd be easier without my bags, and it was, but the 2nd trip home of the day my legs started feeling it. Also, I cancelled my haircut from back in May, and I'm looking pretty shaggy right now. Been waiting for a good weekend to get it done, and Saturday finally looks like it's gonna happen. I can tuck my hair behind my ears, it's that long and annoying. Was almost tempted to buzz cut it at home, and Tracy toyed with the idea of giving me a trim.

Feel like spending money. Will probably get that SSD for the iMac when Mountain Lion is released in a month. And a new bike too. Still deciding on what to get, and now have learned that Titanium might be better than Steel for a frame. Uh oh. Maybe I should just go looking for a nice used bike to use. Would have loved to have just used my old Miyata from growing up, but it's long gone. Anyway, Lucy seems to be adjusting to day care. Not so much with the crying at drop off. Actually ok with going in the morning. A little cranky in the evenings though, which might be because she doesn't get as long as a nap as she wants. She takes after her mom in that way. Otherwise, not much going on. It's been hot, yesterday was supposed to be crazy hot, but wasn't that bad. Been sort of reading Jurassic Park, on and off. With bike commuting, just not reading at all anymore. Current guilty pleasure: Love in the Wild. Not sure why I like that reality relationship adventure show, but I do. It's strangely addicting.