just got back from the doc shop, it looks like the pita pocket on my leg has closed up pretty substantially. in fact, they didn’t honestly expect it to have healed up this fast. the doc’s opinion: easily within two weeks it’ll be completely scarred over. i’m hoping that means i’ll be back on the bike in full effect in a week or so. i’m going to try to ride in two-legged sooner (tomorrow?) but taking it easy. no fixie until it’s fully closed back up, for certain. it is still a pretty big wound, but i don’t need them to do anything further than to come by and show off pictures in a couple weeks. i really am excited to be off the gimpcycle though.

saturday my mom came up to have a look at it, i satisified her curiousity that i was in fact not going to keel over dead any time soon. after that i went down to arick’s bachelor party and got some beer on. quite a bit really, but it was a good time. the whole thing is still surprisingly surreal to me though.

i felt it a bit on sunday but after church went to the third place pub to check out their pub philosophy series “shepherd and the knucklehead”. we had some pretty good conversation with jason and richard on the topic of “who is my neighbor?” and what does neighborliness mean in the modern context. it was insightful and good conversation, and spurred me to figure out how to get to know my new neighbors. i think andrew and susan know them a bit already, so perhaps inviting them to a little bbq or something would not be amiss? it also inspired me to finish up this article i’ve been working on for cranked. pressure!

the one bad piece of news in all this is that i won’t do the multnomah county bike fair this weekend, since i’m not really back to full rideability. i had been so looking forward to that as well.

my gimpcycle commute is a less-than impressive 4.3 miles, but on the other hand it is keeping me riding. and i have done it twice this week. it’s not exactly easy to dash home to grab something if you forgot it though. i also managed to get in a little two-miler down to greenlake with miss c on tuesday, a totally adequate subsitute to the apparently epic tuesday night ride i was missing.

of course they went through the arboretum. my bane.

things are starting to heal up down there in my knee. the hall health sports doc seems pretty pessimistic sometimes but it’s clear that his goal is that i’ll be able to have full knee function back when i’m healed up with a giant scar.

weekly total: 23.2 miles
cumulative total: 139.7 miles

gimpcycle-1 has been constructed. pictures forthcoming.

between my leg and the sad demise of the blakeley, i’m not doing the best ever these days. it’s getting to me. prayers welcome.

weekly total: 12.6 miles
cumulative total: 129.1 miles