Off By One

First blood: Bike. Second blood: Me.

The bike got a bent tire, I got this seemingly-minor, but very uncomfortable abrasion:

Yay, summer!

I had an epiphany yesterday: I don’t want to drive to work. Me. The lazy one.

My gods was traffic stressful, after the relative pleasure of cycling. People were asshats, the car was too hot, and the whole experience conspired to make me look forward to winter, and a need to drive, with no small amount of apprehension. Really, I’m happier biking.

Mind you, no rain on me, yet

Well, it’s been a bit; I’m not sure why, but I’ve been undermotivated to blog lately, which has resulted in an ominous quiet from the site.

Here’s a bullet-point update on my situation these days:

• I’m biking to work pretty much daily now; it’s about (I’m told) 6km each way, so it’s a bit of exercise I wouldn’t otherwise be getting, and it’s pretty decent exercise. It’s excellent that our workplace has a shower.
• I’m taking class in the morning and working late, which means that anyone that wants to make plans with me has to take into account that I won’t be home until 7:30 or so each weekday. Having said that, I’d love to do evening things with people, so please call any time.
• Work is up & down; I want to work on new things, but old things keep cropping up.
• Char is away this week, and I miss her.
• XBMC is the greatest thing since sliced bread. No AppleTV for me, my new (old) Xbox does everything I would want the aTV to do.
• I’ve read a few books recently, notably “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which I bought for Char. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend it.
• On Sunday, with the blessings of Lyal and the qualified non-refusal of a shoulder surgeon, I’m going to fly again.

For my birthday I got me one of these, and I’m using it to bike to work.

That’s quite a workout, I kid ye not.

No real reason to talk about it other than the ever-growing gap in between postings. Sorry about that…