A cold, icky afternoon

I had hoped to do something outside today--go for a ride or work on my herb garden. But it's really nasty outside. On the cool side, windy, and raining. I spent the first part of the afternoon cooking and cleaning. Think I'll spend the rest in the garage, cleaning my bike and giving it a once-over--checking all the bolts, lubing the places that need it, cleaning it, and doing a little polishing of the chrome. I haven't really given it a good cleaning since last spring. I noticed when I was taking some close-up pictures for a friend of my saddlebag mounts that it's pretty dirty, especially down in the crevices.

Alan's home, and he's not going back to California next week. So I'm going to push him to clean up the mess he's made setting up the server and rebuilding his computer. There are computer parts and boxes all over the guest room (on the floor and covering the bed). We're having company soon, so I need to get that room ready. I took Julie's old twin bed out and brought in the queen-sized frame and box springs that she left in the garage. I'm going to buy a top mattress for it and get the room ready for the first batch of company. It will continue through the summer, as more and more friends come to visit (most of them friends who are coming to ride with us). It will be nice to have a second guest room upstairs, so we don't have to send people down to the basement, where they have to use Brian's bathroom. :-)