Earthy crunchy
For Earth day, I bicycled to work instead of taking the T, I refused to print out ANYTHING at work on the printer. This is difficult, I do a lot of complex configuration changes and log-line alalysis - the sharpie - arrows and highlighters help me to conceptualize complex solutions. But, I have three monitors, surely I can get by without printing for at least one day-? I drank water from a recycled water bottle, coffee from a ceramic mug. But I worry that I don't do these all the time... that last one for example... those DnD cups are going to be around for a million years... maybe I should not quit coffee but quit going to DnD.
Online I signed up for Bike Day to ride my bike 5 days that week, I hope it doesn't rain. I need a good rain solution, then i can actually ride every day it'd make me happy.
Anyone have suggestions how to waterproof footsies, pants, hair? Not from rain but from huge puddle splashes from occasional inconsiderate motorists (most drivers aren't but it only takes a few of them.)
Overall it was a good day. I can't help but think of the big picture - i'm an IT professional so why does my employer require me to commute AT ALL for example? I have telephone, I have high speed 'net at home. I can attend meetings via Breeze and other tools that we already have, but they claim they need me in person. They really don't. We could save this office - cooling & heating requirement entirely, not to mention commute time and expenditure. I look at the four hundred cars stacked up across the bridge, stopped, during my bicycle ride.
Recent smog report showed average speed on Route-93 is 11mph over the day through Somerville (because of the averaging of the 3 to 4mph during commute time. - it averages 60 mph during slow times of day, but volume then is low... overall average per day per car is 11mph) :: sigh :: -Is humanity just numbed to this? What can I do to convince my boss's boss to stop requiring daily commute?
Thanks for reading, -Me.-
Online I signed up for Bike Day to ride my bike 5 days that week, I hope it doesn't rain. I need a good rain solution, then i can actually ride every day it'd make me happy.
Anyone have suggestions how to waterproof footsies, pants, hair? Not from rain but from huge puddle splashes from occasional inconsiderate motorists (most drivers aren't but it only takes a few of them.)
Overall it was a good day. I can't help but think of the big picture - i'm an IT professional so why does my employer require me to commute AT ALL for example? I have telephone, I have high speed 'net at home. I can attend meetings via Breeze and other tools that we already have, but they claim they need me in person. They really don't. We could save this office - cooling & heating requirement entirely, not to mention commute time and expenditure. I look at the four hundred cars stacked up across the bridge, stopped, during my bicycle ride.
Recent smog report showed average speed on Route-93 is 11mph over the day through Somerville (because of the averaging of the 3 to 4mph during commute time. - it averages 60 mph during slow times of day, but volume then is low... overall average per day per car is 11mph) :: sigh :: -Is humanity just numbed to this? What can I do to convince my boss's boss to stop requiring daily commute?
Thanks for reading, -Me.-