not primarily concerned with cats
Oct. 25th, 2022 02:01 pmOr even with one cat. Though he's still awful cute. Last night I got a couple of hand-licks while I was reading in bed, so I think I am at least conditionally accepted.
I went out at lunch today for my first ride in the rain in several years. Well, "rain," barely a drizzle. But cold and grey and windy, all of which make it feel more like rain than it ever actually is.
It went well. The first bit, down closer to the water, had a stiff breeze and was generally unpleasantly cold and hard-to-breathe. But that improved as I warmed up and moved uphill out of the wind. By the time I got to the halfway point (Edmonds station) I was feeling pretty good about the whole thing.
It's about a half-hour ride to Edmonds, mostly gentle uphill with a couple of dips or flats. Then from Edmonds my loop sends me back through New West proper, which is mostly flat until it's mostly down. That also took me half an hour this time, but a) it's sort of inscribing 2/3 of a circle where the route to Edmonds is about 1/3, and b) I stopped halfway to pick up a chicken sandwich from Popeye's for lunch.
An hour lunchtime ride works for me, especially on days when I'm up for a 7am meeting (ie, most of them).
There's a park, Moody Park, on the way back, which includes amenities like ball fields and the Lawn Bowling Club. I stopped off there a couple of weeks ago for early voting. I did my research; I was looking for excuses not to vote a straight party slate, but a) the party in question, Community First, is NDP-endorsed, and b) a bit of poking around determined that the "New West Progressives" were no such thing. So, CF down the line, and for the one school board seat they weren't running a candidate I threw in with what looked to be the least bad NWP option. In the event CF won the mayoralty, four of six council seats, and five or six (I forget) of seven school trustees. So we'll see how that does over the next few years. Better than Vancouver city, at least, which appears to have traded a disorganized centre-left mayor and council for a more organized centre(?)-right administration.
Anyway, it somehow only occurred to me today that Moody Park also has a swimming pool. Which is of no use at the moment, but "stop for a swim on my way home" sounds pretty appealing when sumer is icumen in next year.
Meanwhile I'm still locking my bike in the bike rack on the back of my car. The latest in strata bike room key nonsense: the company who handled the bike room lock is out of business, so if they want more keys they'll have to put a new lock on. Argh.
I went out at lunch today for my first ride in the rain in several years. Well, "rain," barely a drizzle. But cold and grey and windy, all of which make it feel more like rain than it ever actually is.
It went well. The first bit, down closer to the water, had a stiff breeze and was generally unpleasantly cold and hard-to-breathe. But that improved as I warmed up and moved uphill out of the wind. By the time I got to the halfway point (Edmonds station) I was feeling pretty good about the whole thing.
It's about a half-hour ride to Edmonds, mostly gentle uphill with a couple of dips or flats. Then from Edmonds my loop sends me back through New West proper, which is mostly flat until it's mostly down. That also took me half an hour this time, but a) it's sort of inscribing 2/3 of a circle where the route to Edmonds is about 1/3, and b) I stopped halfway to pick up a chicken sandwich from Popeye's for lunch.
An hour lunchtime ride works for me, especially on days when I'm up for a 7am meeting (ie, most of them).
There's a park, Moody Park, on the way back, which includes amenities like ball fields and the Lawn Bowling Club. I stopped off there a couple of weeks ago for early voting. I did my research; I was looking for excuses not to vote a straight party slate, but a) the party in question, Community First, is NDP-endorsed, and b) a bit of poking around determined that the "New West Progressives" were no such thing. So, CF down the line, and for the one school board seat they weren't running a candidate I threw in with what looked to be the least bad NWP option. In the event CF won the mayoralty, four of six council seats, and five or six (I forget) of seven school trustees. So we'll see how that does over the next few years. Better than Vancouver city, at least, which appears to have traded a disorganized centre-left mayor and council for a more organized centre(?)-right administration.
Anyway, it somehow only occurred to me today that Moody Park also has a swimming pool. Which is of no use at the moment, but "stop for a swim on my way home" sounds pretty appealing when sumer is icumen in next year.
Meanwhile I'm still locking my bike in the bike rack on the back of my car. The latest in strata bike room key nonsense: the company who handled the bike room lock is out of business, so if they want more keys they'll have to put a new lock on. Argh.