The dryer vent guy showed up quickly and on time. He was happy to explain what he was doing and how it was going, how the blind would be calculated, and showed us how much junk came out of the vent.

( More behind the cut )

Gross! I cannot believe the former homeowners never cleaned this thing out. And apparently the way the builder set up the room and the vent there are a couple bends in the venting that of course are ripe to catch lint as it flows out, so there was plenty to get dragged out. I think we're lucky there wasn't a fire from all of that. We're trying a load of towels now, so let's hope it finishes drying in one go this time. And I'm setting up a reminder for this time next year to do this again.

You know it must be past time to vacuum the carpet when you get up from doing your post-run stretching and you have the occasional carpet fuzzy stuck to you.

One thing on the weights yesterday was that I forgot I have a 1G iPod shuffle (the kind that looked like a white stick of gum) that I used to use while doing weights (or running on the treadmill). Thing is so old I can’t even find anything but support references to it on the Apple site. Hauled it out this morning to charge and reload with music. Some of the music that was on it (I have it fill randomly from “my top rated”) was stuff that I’d removed from that particular playlist, so was happy to see it gone (mostly stuff I’d listened to far too often). I think I still have my 3G iPod “classic” around the place somewhere, too, though as I recall it won’t hold a charge and will only play when plugged into something that provides power (the result of playing it on a docking station at work for too long).

In other news™, BC texted me this morning to let me know he finally picked up the bicycle he was getting from a friend. The assimilation continues (he said, with an evil cackle).

View this post at the Glen.