Travis: Went mountain biking this weekend.

Me: Looks like you’re having way too much fun. Get back to the lab.

Me: That’s more like it. How did that happen? Following too close, no mudflaps?

Travis: No fenders. Everyone I went with was too fast for me to follow too closely.

Travis: It was worse on the backside.

Me: How far did you go?

Travis: I think about 16 or 17 miles. We were going to do an 85 mile road race, but it was forecast to rain, and no one felt very fast, so we went mountain bikin’. I started out with glasses, but they got covered in mud in about the first minute. I had dirt in my eyeballs for the next 36 hours. I think it’s all out now.