Sidelined...

[halfshellvenus]

My bicycle is in the shop, owing to a minor accident-well, minor for me, less for the bike. It started when my foot slipped out of the pedal while drinking water, and things got kind of brakeless. I tried to stay on the bike path, but veered off the edge and crashed. Not terribly hard, NOT over the side of the hill, and not as fast as it could have

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[matchboximpala]

I am in Seattle right now and it was supposed to get to 97 today. I didn't bother to check to see if it made it there -- really, for me, anything past 75 is just hot. It cooled down enough around 8:30 for me to go for a walk while it was still light. I passed a couple and the woman was carrying a thinly quilted jacket. I don't know how long she was planning on walking, but I don't think it is going to be cool enough for a jacket until about 3am.

The heat isn't fun but I am not miserable. My mother, though, is not dealing well.

Sorry to hear about your accident and your bike. I hope you heal up okay and get your bike back soon.

[halfshellvenus]

Love the dead cow icon!

Yesterday was 97 in Sacramento, but my brother is farther north and it was 104 there. Ugh. Should be cooling down a little here this week, though I won't have a bike to enjoy it, and that seems like double punishment after working around last week's 100-108 temperatures. SO awful.

Seattle and Portland both seem to really be cooking, and I have to assure people that it isn't common. That isn't the same as "it never happens," but 100-degree day or two ever few years is not the same as months on end of 92-106 degrees all summer long. Bleh.

[desertport]

Way too much summer. :( Just before the heat wave started I bought some nice running shoes, but I'm just not doing it in this heat, so I gotta wait to break them in.

Glad the bike took the brunt of it and not you, bad cut notwithstanding. It's healing up okay, though?

stylistic, ridiculous, adrenaline-charged and hugely entertaining

My thoughts exactly! It's gonna have to be one of the few films I buy to watch over and over.

[halfshellvenus]

I'm not sure what your transportation is like these days, but Tryon Creek tends to be cool-ish, due to all the shade. Still, on 100-degree days... I can never get out early enough. I overheat at about 72 degrees, and I'm not a morning person, so... Fortunately, the heat will not last for you!

The cut is healing well, though now it has started itching. :( Much like the yellow-jacket stings a week ago. Intensely painful at the time, then 24-hours later... OMG, the itching!

Mad Max was such fun. Even our daughter found it entertaining, and it totally is not her genre. :D

[bleodswean]

Glad you're enjoying Breaking Bad! For me it's all about Saul, Saul, Saul.

I'm STILL obsessing over Mad Max Fury Road!

Sorry about the bike and your arm. Ouch! That COULD HAVE been much worse. Be careful out there!

So glad we're getting a break in the temps this week. It will cool our pool off considerably but the trade-off is going to be being able to sleep at night. No a/c up here in the hills, ya know.

[halfshellvenus]

Oh, boy. Saul was just introduced in the episode I watched last night, but it's all Walt and Jesse for me. Including when I want to smack them. I usually want to smack Marie, too. And Bryan/Aaron? God, so much adoration there

[ariss_tenoh]

Glad to hear you weren't hurt too badly!

[halfshellvenus]

Yes, that was lucky!

The extra bruises the following day were a real surprise-- lots of them, in places I hadn't especially noticed hurting the day before and which hadn't looked like anything. Gah. It's too hot here to wear long pants, so I expect to be fielding questions about the bruises for the next week or so. :(

[ryl]

When I fell off the trail a few weeks ago I found bruises I didn't know I had for the next week. Hot compresses make them fade faster.

[halfshellvenus]

That's good advice, I'll give that a try. Thanks!

It's funny, I feel as if I've finally become my Dad in the sense of

*new wound arrives*

"Oh hey!. When did that happen?"

Sometimes blood is even involved, and I still won't notice any meaningful trauma until after the fact. :O

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm glad you weren't hurt worse! and at least the bike isn't totaled. that would suck.

i liked mad max enough to see it twice, and i almost never see movies more than once in the theater. (i saw catws three times, which is probably the record.) "ridiculous" is a good word for it. but wasn't it totally worth seeing on a big screen? otherwise you can't get the full absurdity of the doof warrior and his flamethrower guitar.

i have deep sympathy for your heatwave at the same time i'm really, really glad we haven't gotten it too.

[halfshellvenus]

The guy with the guitar was the part that made me laugh out loud-- TOO ridiculous! But the rest was totally worth the big screen. :D

This heatwave has been awful. We're getting a little reprieve this week, which I won't be able to enjoy since I can't bike... after working around 100-108 temps last week. Gah. Once the day's high is 105+, outside time is done at 10am. That's pretty limiting. :(