Daylight
The one (perhaps only) nice thing about early DST is there's suddenly a lot of daytime for doing things after work. Like on Wednesday, when akiko is out at Tai-Chi class in the early evening anyway, giving me just barely enough time to get in a decent bike ride before making dinner. Since they're practically the only decent exercise I get (barring new DDR games), this is a good thing.
Yesterday's ride: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3556852
Wasn't intended to be nearly 8 miles, but those dead-ends in the trailer park off Hwy 10 represent a colossal shortcut failure. Took a wrong turn after the tracks. Speaking of tracks, I'm afraid I can't recommend taking the railroad tracks with a bike as a method of avoiding the annoying traffic on the highway (See the first leg of the trip). I'm not quite stupid enough to actually bike on the tracks (yeah, I would *probably* hear a train behind in enough time to get off, but I'm not gonna bet my life on it), and beside them is mostly too rough for riding, making for a long bike-walk. And let's not even talk about the short open bridge over the creek.
Also talked on the way back to our neighbor who had his house broken into and a bunch of electronics stolen when he went to the grocery store for an hour. Pretty weird for our neighborhood. He thinks someone must have been watching for an opportunity - one possibility is people connected to the dude with drug problems who used to live there. A bit unsettling, but we have a deadbolt (which is pretty much always set because we rarely use the front door - his was latched but not bolted) and an alarm system which we mostly got to have monitored fire protection for the cats, but should work perfectly well for burglaries too.
Yesterday's ride: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3556852
Wasn't intended to be nearly 8 miles, but those dead-ends in the trailer park off Hwy 10 represent a colossal shortcut failure. Took a wrong turn after the tracks. Speaking of tracks, I'm afraid I can't recommend taking the railroad tracks with a bike as a method of avoiding the annoying traffic on the highway (See the first leg of the trip). I'm not quite stupid enough to actually bike on the tracks (yeah, I would *probably* hear a train behind in enough time to get off, but I'm not gonna bet my life on it), and beside them is mostly too rough for riding, making for a long bike-walk. And let's not even talk about the short open bridge over the creek.
Also talked on the way back to our neighbor who had his house broken into and a bunch of electronics stolen when he went to the grocery store for an hour. Pretty weird for our neighborhood. He thinks someone must have been watching for an opportunity - one possibility is people connected to the dude with drug problems who used to live there. A bit unsettling, but we have a deadbolt (which is pretty much always set because we rarely use the front door - his was latched but not bolted) and an alarm system which we mostly got to have monitored fire protection for the cats, but should work perfectly well for burglaries too.