Today I went for a ride with my wife's gdi2; 48cm is way to small for me; was half way on my usual route back home and I had to turn around as I couldn't stand the crampness anymore. Along the ride I noticed many things changed since the last time I was here in the bay area; the most cool imo was the county swapped out all streetlamps with LED versions.

On another note I'm totally stoked that my wife totally helped me score a $5000 vacuum tube amplifier (a mcintosh mc275) for free today. Apparently the original owner accidentally had something heavy fall on it with the protective cage on and completely broke off one and cracked one of the large vacuum tubes and 2 of the smaller ones at the socket; thought it was toast and put it outside in hopes someone can make use of it/ cannibalize it. My wife sent me pictures and it's a shame the original owner doesn't know the carrot trick to remove bulbs from sockets... I sure feel lucky that I fitted my porteur rack to her via condotti otherwise she wouldn't have had a chance lugging that 50lbs brick back home. She added that she totally looked like a hipster with that thing tied down in front of her!