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Tuesday: bike ride!
Apr. 11th, 2023 09:18 amI’ve been meaning to get back on my bike … for a while. I don’t think it has been years since I’ve been on a bike, but it has been a bit. I used to ride pretty regularly for errands until I got the i3 in 2014, but all the guilt associated with driving a car to run errands was washed away on the tide of EV righteousness. It has returned, not because I’m driving an ICE again (we do still have an Odyssey), but because it’s often just me in the car, or just me and A. and the trip length is often very short. So I’ve been walking over to the school when I pick her up in the afternoon now that the weather is nice, but I didn’t get on a bike until today.
Today, R. has driven over to look at the view and make decisions about whether there needs to be any further adjustments or if the removal already done is Enough. He did most of the morning routine (I did have to go get A. going because she had another very slow start to the day), but somehow they forgot the folders, which I saw sitting on the table the night before and thought, you know, I should put those in the bag now because they are going to forget them in the morning, but then I was like, Not My Problem. I asked R. yesterday if he was going to be able to do the morning routine and he seemed to indicate that he could — certainly the timing was going to be fine. But they also forgot the Chromebook. *sigh* I didn’t check texts until an hour later, when I saw that there was an outstanding request for me to deliver these items to the school. R. took the i4 (it does have plenty of range for that trip) and T. took the i3 (it’s Tuesday, and he needs to hustle to get over to his therapy appointment on time) leaving me with the Odyssey. I was going to just walk the stuff over, but then I thought, hey! I could ride a bike. I grabbed the purple pannier bags which someone removed from the bike I intended and set over on the Townie in classic Hang Clothes On the Treadmill fashion, put them back on the bike I intended to take and headed out. R. _had_ made sure there was air in the tires, which may well be why the pannier bags had been removed.
Anyway. Lots of utility trucks at the church on the corner and on Mass Ave between Prospect and Charter, police officer directing traffic. Other than that, not particularly eventful. And I got my bike ride! Maybe I’ll ride over to a library or something later today.
ETA:
Three years and two days ago, we moved the treadmill from my office to the upstairs hallway. That meant we had to move a couple bookshelves out of the way, so one went into the dining room, where people have been staring at it weekly during Friday cocktail zoom and Sunday family zoom ever since. The other one went into the eat-in part of the kitchen, next to the slider, which I’ve never been happy about because it makes it kind of tight to get to the slider.
I’ve been decluttering the shelving unit opposite, and today I decided I’d hit a point where I could consolidate, and donate the bookshelf that had moved downstairs to the kitchen. And it worked! A few things went to other places around the house, but places that make sense — not just, “wherever they fit”.
We’ll either donate the bookcase to HG on Thursday, or deliver it to someone locally, if a friend asks for it (I posted about it on FB with dimensions and pictures). I think this is one of the Ballard Bookcase bookcases, which is kinda funny feeling, because I recently learned that Ballard Bookcase has gone out of business. I mean, it’s kind of inevitable, but also, A Thing.
Also, pretty hilarious that it is so close to exactly three years.
ETAYA:
And in samples, I read the sample of _Laziness Does Not Exist_. Obviously, I am in complete agreement with the thesis. Perhaps marginally less obviously, it was really pretty distressing to read the sample, because, like the beginning of _so_ _many_ _self-help_/_psychology_/wtf books that I am _not_ the target audience for, it is all about in detail describing The Wrong Thing that the book is in opposition to.
Ow ow ow.
I applaud Devon Price for producing this book and also I can’t imagine actually reading it. Again, _totally_ in agreement with the thesis of the book, and am glad the book exists.
I also finished (after three or more tries!) reading the sample of _The Big One_ by Dr. Lucy Jones. No shade on the author or the book, other than that if I can’t get motivated to finish a sample until I’ve tried three times, I doubt I’m gonna make much progress on the book.
Laura Raicovich’s _Culture Strike_ sample was a fast and moderately interesting read. I’m not committed to buying the book and reading it yet, but might change my mind. Friends and book club members who are also docents at a museum in NH were reading it for their museum book group, which is how I heard about it.
Today, R. has driven over to look at the view and make decisions about whether there needs to be any further adjustments or if the removal already done is Enough. He did most of the morning routine (I did have to go get A. going because she had another very slow start to the day), but somehow they forgot the folders, which I saw sitting on the table the night before and thought, you know, I should put those in the bag now because they are going to forget them in the morning, but then I was like, Not My Problem. I asked R. yesterday if he was going to be able to do the morning routine and he seemed to indicate that he could — certainly the timing was going to be fine. But they also forgot the Chromebook. *sigh* I didn’t check texts until an hour later, when I saw that there was an outstanding request for me to deliver these items to the school. R. took the i4 (it does have plenty of range for that trip) and T. took the i3 (it’s Tuesday, and he needs to hustle to get over to his therapy appointment on time) leaving me with the Odyssey. I was going to just walk the stuff over, but then I thought, hey! I could ride a bike. I grabbed the purple pannier bags which someone removed from the bike I intended and set over on the Townie in classic Hang Clothes On the Treadmill fashion, put them back on the bike I intended to take and headed out. R. _had_ made sure there was air in the tires, which may well be why the pannier bags had been removed.
Anyway. Lots of utility trucks at the church on the corner and on Mass Ave between Prospect and Charter, police officer directing traffic. Other than that, not particularly eventful. And I got my bike ride! Maybe I’ll ride over to a library or something later today.
ETA:
Three years and two days ago, we moved the treadmill from my office to the upstairs hallway. That meant we had to move a couple bookshelves out of the way, so one went into the dining room, where people have been staring at it weekly during Friday cocktail zoom and Sunday family zoom ever since. The other one went into the eat-in part of the kitchen, next to the slider, which I’ve never been happy about because it makes it kind of tight to get to the slider.
I’ve been decluttering the shelving unit opposite, and today I decided I’d hit a point where I could consolidate, and donate the bookshelf that had moved downstairs to the kitchen. And it worked! A few things went to other places around the house, but places that make sense — not just, “wherever they fit”.
We’ll either donate the bookcase to HG on Thursday, or deliver it to someone locally, if a friend asks for it (I posted about it on FB with dimensions and pictures). I think this is one of the Ballard Bookcase bookcases, which is kinda funny feeling, because I recently learned that Ballard Bookcase has gone out of business. I mean, it’s kind of inevitable, but also, A Thing.
Also, pretty hilarious that it is so close to exactly three years.
ETAYA:
And in samples, I read the sample of _Laziness Does Not Exist_. Obviously, I am in complete agreement with the thesis. Perhaps marginally less obviously, it was really pretty distressing to read the sample, because, like the beginning of _so_ _many_ _self-help_/_psychology_/wtf books that I am _not_ the target audience for, it is all about in detail describing The Wrong Thing that the book is in opposition to.
Ow ow ow.
I applaud Devon Price for producing this book and also I can’t imagine actually reading it. Again, _totally_ in agreement with the thesis of the book, and am glad the book exists.
I also finished (after three or more tries!) reading the sample of _The Big One_ by Dr. Lucy Jones. No shade on the author or the book, other than that if I can’t get motivated to finish a sample until I’ve tried three times, I doubt I’m gonna make much progress on the book.
Laura Raicovich’s _Culture Strike_ sample was a fast and moderately interesting read. I’m not committed to buying the book and reading it yet, but might change my mind. Friends and book club members who are also docents at a museum in NH were reading it for their museum book group, which is how I heard about it.