what's happening

not much, that's what.

I got a response back from the guy who runs our company MS150 team, and after some confusion about whether or not I was registered for the ride, I managed to join the team. I still have very little idea what that entails, but hey--I'm a member!

And while I was searching for something else on the MS150 website, I came across their officially-sanctioned ms150 logo files, hidden under the group info section. In a classic example of not leaving well enough alone, I dutifully downloaded one of the gifs and replaced my existing sidebar button with it. Only then did I realize it had a white background, so I tried to photoshop it out of existence. All resulting gifs looked like crap, so I finally gave up and tried to put the original .png back. Even though it's exactly the same file as it was before, I get this weird border around the edge of the drop shadow now. After messing with it for about 5 minutes, I gave up and put the official white-backgrounded gif back. So now I have a white button instead of a nicely blended image, and you know why? Because I'm graphically incompetent, that's why. Grr.

I haven't been doing much riding this week either. This past weekend was so cold, we only lasted 8 miles on the Saturday ride, and I didn't commute on Friday. Sunday was rained out and I accidentally slept in Monday, so I've got a grand total of 18 miles this week. Woo! Go me!

On the bright side, I did discover that my bike fits nicely in my car's back seat, so I don't have to mess with the carrier anymore. I will need to mess with an old bedsheet to protect the upholstery, but that's a little thing. I'll be glad when I have a cargo-carrying vehicle again. At the rate I drive, that'll be about 4 more months. Just in time for the big ride!

In weight loss news, there really isn't any. I'm holding steady at 201-202, though my eating has been more controlled this week than it has been lately. I won't be able to weigh in tomorrow because we're going to have a consultant onsite. I could probably still go weigh in over my lunch hour, but I think I'll just wait till Friday again instead. Give myself one more day.