New toy, and feeling a bit ill

This week I have had a bit of a sore chest and trouble talking. Of course, my job is to talk at a classroom voice level. I even ended up having my class on Thursday leaving early. I just told them I was done. It did not help that this was an inspection week so I was not able to get anyone to walk me to the clinic. I need the person to go with me from the office so that she would be able to tell them who I was in order to get the service free. There is also the point that I have never been to the clinic so I was not all too sure where it was at.

This morning I went to the clinic. I took a newspaper to read while I was there. The newspaper was entirely unnecessary as the clinic was not crowded and I was pushed to the front of the line. I was then given some medicine and there was no need to go on base to see the specialists. I am now sitting at my flat listening to Car Talk on NPR recovering from the medication.

Earlier this week I did get a new bike (yes, a pushbike). I was not even aware that there was a Giant dealership in this town. I have seen some Giants and I finally located the dealer. In general, there is no room for dickering on the price. This is an odd thing to the Chinese. I am not as concerned about price as I am with not feeling like I have been cheated. So, after I looked at it I then went and got Gao and returned. I got a Giant Tourer2.0. This is a model that is not available in the US but I think it will serve me well. I also got another cycle computer with it. The reason for not using the one on the current bike is about threefold.

The first reason is that I am intending to keep the bike for Zeneta to use and I think that she will like speedometer. The second is that I am continuing to use this bike for on campus riding. I want to keep the speedometer and they must be programmed for the wheel size of the bike. The other reason is that the speedometers have odometers and I like to know how many Kilometers that bikes have gone.

So, I expect to do more road riding soon. As you can see from the name, it is a touring bike, not a race bike. Gao looks at it and calls it a race bike because it is a multigear bike with non-mtb tires (they are 700x41c, not really a narrow tire). Once I find a way to get My space to post pictures again I will put them up.