Wondering what they have in common? Not much except I have had experiences with both in the last day. After getting my rear bike tire replaced, I have again had the chance to enjoy biking. However, after an uneventful bike ride back from campus yesterday, I took a couple hour nap and after waking decided I would watch a movie while looking at some notes (this is my downtime). Shortly after starting the movie, I hear this loud hissing sound and am sort of worried because my couch is near my furnace area and at first thought about my gas line. But I quickly realized it was coming from my bike. I looked and saw the stem of my inner tube had ripped partially off, leaving my back wheel quite flat. It will be cheap to replace and considering the tube was used, that stuff happens, but I will have to admit it was a fairly random occurence.

In other news, I was in the bathroom for a "bigger purpose" (It may be better not to ask why I am referring it as this), and all of a sudden I saw a cockroach come in under the door in the bathroom. This wasn't just any cockroach, it was about the size of my big toe and scared the shit out of me (not literally of course). It scurried under a pair of shorts I had on the ground and gave me time to finish up at which point I turned Macgyver. Using a toilet plunger and a Tucson yellow pages I was able to direct the cockroach to the hallway and after a near miss with the phonebook, the cockroach was running for it's life. My second shot was sure and so the bug never made it to the dining room. Usually I am not too bad with bugs, but the crickets and the cockroaches down here are absolutely massive and I don't do too well with large bugs, thus the rather embarrassing moment. Oh well, I guess that's life.

-Trevor