Today I finished my sweat equity requirements for Bike & Build. Each rider is required to complete at least eight hours of sweat equity with an affordable housing organization, so I did two six hour trips with BU's Habitat Chapter. Todays trip wasn't really a build trip because we spent the day making last minute touch ups on several units in a larger habitat project in Boston that are going to be shown to people tomorrow. I spent most of the day scrapping dried paint off of linoleum floors and painting over scuff marks on the walls. It wasn't so bad and really I only wish I could have been outside instead of cooped up inside all day (take note that it was 70 degrees, something I'm not likely to see again for several months), but the units look great and ready for tomorrow. It's kinda funny that now that I'm supposed to be gaining actual building experience for this summer the build trips I go on end up not really involving building (the last one I spent nearly the whole day caulking and sanding). I guess it's good I've been on so many other build trips.
The other big news for today is that I made a special trip home this weekend to collect my bike and the packages that have arrived containing exciting goodies like pedals, a bike computer (that was amazingly easy to install and worked on the first try), and Chamois Butt'r. My next great adventure is going to be learning to clip in and out of my new pedals. I'm hoping I only fall over once or twice.
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