Day 5 - Snow Biking

Dear Internet,

I thought I'd start my new post this way in memory of Conan O'Brien's last show. On one of the last shows he made a joke about writing to the internet.

So Day 5 was another tough one. I woke up really early to volunteer for habitat for humanity down in Pigtown. After contemplating using the bus system again, I decided to just bike it. I used Suzanne's bike again (by the way I've used hers a few times since my pedal broke) and picked up a sandwich at 7-eleven. I made it down there pretty well, though it was again very cold biking. Working there was pretty awesome. I felt like I was really helping to make this house. Most of the day was spent moving debris. They had taken down the roof of this old house and we had to throw all the junk down, and then take it to the dumpster on the street. Not a glamorous job by any means, but it was hard work and necessary work. After a few hours we started working on constructing the walls of the house. We just used old fashioned hammers and nails. Anyway after lunch the snow was coming down so bad that they canceled the rest of the day and I rode my bike back home. This was the toughest biking I've done in a while. It's mostly an incline back up to Remington from Pigtown so that in addition to the snow blinding me and the slow speed of snow biking made it a bit more difficult than usual. I decided to just take it one pedal stroke at a time. Once home I took a long nap to recover. Afterward I played a bit of Monopoly with my friend Belle and Alexis (my couchsurfer from France). Suzanne isn't too keen on my recent Monopoly craze, so she sat that game out. I guess I'm getting a bit distracted from the purpose of this blog so I'll leave it at that. Good night internet.

Love,

Dan