Hi, remember me?  Well this entire move across the country, make a home, get a job, has pretty much filled my dance card.  I have been the Executive Assistant to the Dean, Rutgers Business School for about two months now.  It is a terrific position with much to do and plenty of opportunities for growth and professional development.

I have done hardly any cycling or working-out since moving, but have begun finally.  Each ride until lately has been an adventure with little to do with my initial planned route, but I am slowly learning the roads here.  This weekend was a good one.  On Saturday, I joined in the May Birthdays Ride.  I rode with Laura, Jim, and 14 other Princeton Freewheelers (the bike club that I joined before leaving California).  Maybe 4 people on the ride had birthdays in May.  It was a good, flat, 43 miles.  When we all returned to Laura's house after the ride; there was quite the birthday feast and merriment.

The next day, I rode a 37 by myself.  I have always enjoyed riding alone and this was a good one.  Laura has been helping me map out good routes on the quieter roads.  It was the second day of perfect weather and I got in probably something around 2,500 feet of climbing and descending in that 37 miles.  I did not take any pictures or stop except to try and remove some serious oobleck that my tires picked up and I smeared all over my hand trying to remove the gravel sticking to my tires.

Ya.  That's just about how my hand looked.  I'm telling myself that it was plant-based natural sap oobleck.  Here are a couple pictures that I took in Hopewell from a previous ride.

It was a great weekend with 80 miles of cycling, and some quality time both days with Dale and Macy.