A light rain for most of the night last night. Most people would assume that rain would be good for people with allergies, but the reality is that unless it rains really hard for a long time all it does is wash off all the pollen and stir it back up into the air. In most cases it leaves me like this morning, all plugged up with a huge headache. Lucky for me they have good drugs for that these days. Thirty minutes after popping a couple allergy pills and an aspirin the day was looking much better.

   Spent most of the morning cleaning and putting stuff away. Need to be on the road tomorrow morning and it's always better to have a head start on things like that. Went back into the city this afternoon and did some last minute grocery shopping. Mostly fresh stuff this time, broccoli and fruit, (gotta have my banana's and blueberries in the morning), but also picked up a package of tortilla's and a couple packs of shredded cheese that they were having a sale on.

   Of course the main reason for going in was to look at a few more bikes. Found two that might be possibilities. Neither are very expensive, I decided what was needed was just something to ride around campground roads and city bike paths and either of these would be good enough for that. There is enough difference in cost and quality between them though that I'll need to think about it for a day or two. No problem finding them again, they are both at major name stores so they should be at most any store in the country.

   Spent the evening loading new music on to the iPod in preparation for the road tomorrow. It's going to be nice to have some new music along again. NPR is okay most of the time, but it's hard for me to put up with all the inane commercials that go along with regular radio stations. In fact I don't put up with it, not for long anyway. Have decided that the next truck, or car for that matter, will have to have an input jack right into the stereo system for the iPod or mp3 player. The current one doesn't have one and it has made life a bit hard trying to find something that will work and that still sounds decent.

    Also spent a little time this evening and watched the original 'Shrek' movie on DVD. Still the best one out of them all and just an amazing bit of creative fun. Need to finish up though and hit the rack. It's going to be earlier than I like when the alarm goes off in the morning. Yuck!