A day, and a phone call!

Had a nice day -- an afternoon of lunch and snooker with thatguychuck and renniekins interrupted by a phone call from gabriel_le. Unfortunately, it was a very short phone call as she was using a borrowed phone, but it was both a great surprise and wonderful, to hear from her. She is well. Then, I join M and some friends for a bit more gaming, playing a couple games of Bang! and a couple games of Medici. I died quickly in both games of Bang!, and was a solid middle of the pack in both games of Medici -- but since I'd never played before, and several of them were fairly experienced with the game, I'm ok with that. Medici plays with 2-6, and we played with 6, and it played well at that number.

Michigan road repair

Or, should I say road removal?

For the last while, M14 has been under repair, and reduced to one lane both ways -- often with big backups. It is the main route from northern Detroit suburbs to Ann Arbor (M14 - US 23 south, to be exact). The usual alternate route, is to take I275 south to I94 west. So, the last couple evenings (at least) I275 south has been reduced to one lane(looks like for resurfacing, since I think I saw both an asphalt lifter machine & steam rollers on the other side as I drove north-bound), with some on/off ramps closed. Did noone think to coordinate the two repair jobs, so that the main alternate wouldn't be closed down, too? No, of course not.

So far, no solid plans for the week in Warren, other than making it back to Ann Arbor area for Tio's on Tuesday evening. Maybe get out climbing Wednesday or Thursday with renniekins, maybe gaming Friday with tammylc & eviljohn, but nothing solid, yet.

And, of course, Saturday I park the bike at elizilla's for a week, and hop on a plane for England.

Intercom

I road-tested elizilla's intercom on the Concours today. The sound was quite good, even at highway speeds up to about 130 km/h (about 80 mph). The voice-activation needed a bit of tuning, but that is expected. The fitting of the speakers in the helmet needs work -- after a short while, the extra pressure on my ears became uncomfortable, but that should be fixable by sculpting the inside of the helmet a bit. I think the brand was Audiovox -- but if I'm wrong, I hope elizilla will correct me. :)