OK, the apartment is cleaner but the carpet still smells. The manager scared off the carpet guy so the owner of the company had to come out here to try to correct this himself. It didn't take, so all of you out there who have carpets which have no smell, please keep me in your thoughts. This is the last piece of this puzzle (at this time). I'm barely breaking even but this I suppose is good for now considering that I had nothing coming in just a few weeks ago.

I rode the bike over 520 miles Saturday and Sunday. I went up to Skagit County to see some of the flower festival on Saturday and on Sunday I took the bike through Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 to Ellensberg, then rode through the Yakima River Canyon on route 821 to Yakima and then back on Rt. 12 and 123 through another (cold) pass to Enumclaw and then highways back to Redmond. The snow up in that pass was much higher than the bike at places but the road was clear. No walking lately or even running. I'll start that routine soon I hope.