8 days later. Had my 8 year anniversary of being employed with Market Track. Crazy. Getting excited about the Xtracycle that's supposedly showing up on Thursday. Should be fun. Need to get Lucy a helmet though. Been hot lately. Too hot. Like I've forgotten how hot Chicago summers can be hot. Finally got around to watching a bunch of movies, like Predators, and Slumdog Millionaire, and Letters to juliet and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which made me buy the book. I guess my writing's been so sporadic, I haven't mentioned that I plowed through the Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentology. Good times. Not sure what my next Young Adult novel series is going to be. I've also read Jumper and Reflex, and of course had to watch the movie. I've already read the Hunger Games, and I'm not ready to go back to Harry Potter, and when I start biking again I won't have time to read anymore. But I'll try Artemis Fowl. I'd rather go for complete series, because waiting around a year or more for the next in a series is too long. Oh, WWDC 2011 was yesterday. Looking forward to iCloud and all the syncing. Happy iOS 5 applies to iPhone 3GS, so I can continue to hold out for an iPhone 5. I think I'm happiest right now about the iBookStore now available in iTunes. Oh, it's also IPv6 Test Day, so I turned it on for all the Macs in the house. All seems to work, except it doesn't look like Comcast has any IP6 DNS servers, so that's kind of useless. But otherwise, I think I'm all set for the future.

So Comcast did have IPv6 DNS servers. My bad. I was checking just shortly after it got turned on, and didn't really check during the day when it was going on, so yeah. I'm leaving it on though. Been trying to set up a hotspot at work for client internet access. Surprisingly hard. Kind of annoying. Wish there was a one stop shop firmware for a WRT54G to drop in and start using. I thought CoovaAP would be it, but it's not easy, or it's not working in our setup. Pretty annoying. Got my Xtracycle and stuff today, probably won't get around to installing it until tomorrow or Saturday. Still have to get Lucy a helmet before we can take her out on it. Oh, and it's freezing out now. 30 degree swing over 24 hours? Awesome Chicago weather.

So got the Xtracycle all put together last weekend, and it's awesome. Got a helmet for Lucy last Saturday, so her first bike ride was last Sunday to Old Town Art Fair. I think she liked it, but must have been comfortable enough because she slept on the way home. Super easy. Was able to throw in the diaper bag, a stroller, and my shoulder bag/man purse, a blanket, with plenty of space to spare. Super cool. Didn't take it in to work this week, even though it was bike to work week. Maybe I'll try next week. I'm on Daddy Day Care this week, and I'll take Lucy on a couple bike rides. Will try and head down to Green City Market tomorrow. Maybe just go down the lake front path on Sunday. Had lunch with C.Moore today. Ran into him randomly last week or so. Great seeing him. Nice guy. Bryan King's in town for a couple weeks. I'll have to catch up with him at some point. The end of June I have to head out to Omaha for work, to help shut down an office out there, from a company that we bought. Never thought I'd have to travel for my job, so should be interesting.

So could have used the Xtracycle today to go get some potting soil from Tracy tonight, but I wimped out. Forecast was for thunderstorms, and there was actually some sort of tornado warning, but I think I could have made it there and back before the rain hit. I did get a bunch of bike hooks, so we can hopefully hang up a bunch of bikes from the neighbors too in the garage. I did take Lucy down to Green City Market on Saturday. On Sunday we all went down on bikes to Old Town for some plants, some oil, and dinner at Trattoria Roma. I wish we had the Xtracycle earlier and done Bike the Drive. That would have been fun. And now I'm getting into biking again. Or at least trying. Need to actually go to work on it at some point. Not sure how I feel about trucking the baby seat with me everywhere though. Had some Comcast issues the last couple of days, but now everything appears back to normal. There used to be an online comcast status website, but no longer. Annoying. No idea what the problem was. Forums aren't any help. It was bad enough that I started looking at alternatives again, and I was happy we had AT&T DSL for Tracy's work.

Headed out to Omaha tomorrow until Friday. It's a work trip. Driving. Rental Car. My first work trip. Crazy. Helping to shut down an office of an acquisition. So that should be interesting. If I was smarter, I would have gotten an audio book or something. I actually have no idea if the rental will have an iPhone dock cable, or if I need to bring my own, or what. Probably should have gotten an car charger for the iPhone too, but maybe I'll stop by the Apple Store in Des Moines, since that's about halfway. Besides that, the family went biking Saturday and Sunday last weekend. Went to Green City Market, and then on Sunday we biked to breakfast at Kanela then down to the Lincoln Park Conservatory before cruising up Halsted Pride parade route. That was pretty cool. Super happy about the Xtracycle. It's a little too big for Tracy to use by herself, which is too bad. Wonder if I should get the Wide Loaders and put training wheels on it. Need to start remembering to check mechanics on the bikes before heading out. Make sure all the nuts and bolts are nice and tight.