bikestuck

Woke up on time this morning, got myself together, headed out to yoga in sub-zero weather.

About two-thirds of the way there my rear brake stiffened up in the open position. I squeezed it to try and loosen it... and it stuck closed.

This happened several times last winter but it always loosened up pretty quickly. Not this time. (I took it in to MEC and the guy shrugged and said "yeah, sometimes they get stiff in cold weather." Bleh.)

Got an Evo (carshare with a bike rack) and took it home. I could have driven to yoga, but if there wasn't an Evo around when I got out it'd be stuck there, and I figure it's better to have it stuck at home.

This after I tried to go to yoga on Friday and managed to forget my yoga shorts at home.

Grr.

cookies, and other

One thing about being awake and not going to yoga is that I'm reading Dreamwidth on my real laptop instead of at work. Which means that I see siderea's The Recipe for how to build community on DW, and have the time/space to share and reflect on it.

I've some sort of personal aversion to short linky posts without much to say about them: it doesn't feel like DW is the right venue for that. But I do recognise that more posts are better for engagement / community. So.

And maybe this will get me back in the habit of, you know, /writing/ here.

... here, have a couple of other links too.

The Cookie Experiment: "And I had a flash of insight: 'Wait. There WAS no other activity. The real experiment was to count how many cookies I ate.'"

Followup-ish, Cookies for Claris: "This is applied cookie psychology. This is I/O cookie psychology. It's cookie psychological engineering."