weekend? poof!
Sun Dec 18 21:16:47 EST 2016
This has been a wasted lost weekend. The weather has been either very cold or wet most of the past week. It was 15°F/-9.4°C when I got home Thursday night, with strong headwinds gusting to 20mph/32kph (wind chill 3°F/-16°C, not counting the bike's speed, 10-15mph/16-24kph). Coming home wee-hours Saturday morning there was very light snow, but at 28°F/-2.2°C in calm air it was comparatively pleasant. Thursday night I was thinking "I've got to be incredibly stubborn to do this all winter"; Friday night "Sure, I could do this for a couple more months." (Although not at 4am. ☹) Arlington had put lots of sand/salt on the roads. That move was proven right later in the morning when we got rain (on the freezing roads) and freezing rain. The high for the weekend was 61°F/16.1°C around 07:00 this morning. It should be sunny tomorrow ☺, but colder again ☹.
The vanishing part of the weekend was leaving the office around 03:00 Saturday (not staying any later because wet weather was expected, and transit doesn't work for getting home after 23:00) and resuming around 04:00 because we had a server that wouldn't reboot after replacing a failed disk with mirrored data. We got that resolved around 11:00 after hours of vendor support, requiring a kernel (OS internals) expert to identify the corrupted modules on the boot disk and a mirroring expert to get the mirroring re-established. (There were mirroring problems before the disk replacement causing data errors on both disks, which is why the server wouldn't boot from the remaining disk. And yes, that's what mirroring is supposed to prevent.)
My body clock (aka circadian circus) has been getting kicked around for weeks, and after this last round I was mostly in bed until 13:00 today. I don't know how people find time for holiday shopping. I certainly wouldn't have fitted any in this weekend.
A couple of weeks ago the local bike shop said my new new bike would be built and shipping late the first week of December, and would take about a week to get here. Based on that, it should have been here this weekend, but they haven't given me a call. And they're not open Mon/Tue off season. (And did I say "fairing"? Much less wind chill on the feet! I need to make poagies, and that covers my pain points for biking below 30°F/-1°C.)
Also no estimate yet on what they think it would cost to repair the old new bike (that got crunched in October). If I do the work it would be a spring project, but if their price is attractive it could be something to keep them working in the winter, when bike shops don't have much business. Assuming I have the new new bike, I wouldn't be in a hurry for the old new bike, so (except for taking up space) the rebuild should be ideal for keeping a mechanic busy; it could be put aside when a customer comes in with something urgent.
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This has been a wasted lost weekend. The weather has been either very cold or wet most of the past week. It was 15°F/-9.4°C when I got home Thursday night, with strong headwinds gusting to 20mph/32kph (wind chill 3°F/-16°C, not counting the bike's speed, 10-15mph/16-24kph). Coming home wee-hours Saturday morning there was very light snow, but at 28°F/-2.2°C in calm air it was comparatively pleasant. Thursday night I was thinking "I've got to be incredibly stubborn to do this all winter"; Friday night "Sure, I could do this for a couple more months." (Although not at 4am. ☹) Arlington had put lots of sand/salt on the roads. That move was proven right later in the morning when we got rain (on the freezing roads) and freezing rain. The high for the weekend was 61°F/16.1°C around 07:00 this morning. It should be sunny tomorrow ☺, but colder again ☹.
The vanishing part of the weekend was leaving the office around 03:00 Saturday (not staying any later because wet weather was expected, and transit doesn't work for getting home after 23:00) and resuming around 04:00 because we had a server that wouldn't reboot after replacing a failed disk with mirrored data. We got that resolved around 11:00 after hours of vendor support, requiring a kernel (OS internals) expert to identify the corrupted modules on the boot disk and a mirroring expert to get the mirroring re-established. (There were mirroring problems before the disk replacement causing data errors on both disks, which is why the server wouldn't boot from the remaining disk. And yes, that's what mirroring is supposed to prevent.)
My body clock (aka circadian circus) has been getting kicked around for weeks, and after this last round I was mostly in bed until 13:00 today. I don't know how people find time for holiday shopping. I certainly wouldn't have fitted any in this weekend.
A couple of weeks ago the local bike shop said my new new bike would be built and shipping late the first week of December, and would take about a week to get here. Based on that, it should have been here this weekend, but they haven't given me a call. And they're not open Mon/Tue off season. (And did I say "fairing"? Much less wind chill on the feet! I need to make poagies, and that covers my pain points for biking below 30°F/-1°C.)
Also no estimate yet on what they think it would cost to repair the old new bike (that got crunched in October). If I do the work it would be a spring project, but if their price is attractive it could be something to keep them working in the winter, when bike shops don't have much business. Assuming I have the new new bike, I wouldn't be in a hurry for the old new bike, so (except for taking up space) the rebuild should be ideal for keeping a mechanic busy; it could be put aside when a customer comes in with something urgent.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/857586.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]