Yesterday I wrote about devices to which I am not yet accustomed. I'm learning them, but I think I'll master Sanskrit, if I start learning it on my next round-number birthday, sooner and better than I'll master the iPhone or iPad.
I also wrote about something to which I was accustomed practically from the moment I touched it: Dee-Lilah, my new Mercian Vincitore Special. She's a birthday gift to myself and, after my initial ride, I was going to "save" her until the day came. So much for my self-discipline.
Everything was right yesterday: Small puffs drifted across a blue sky, the air was warm but not oppressively so, and a brisk wind blew into my face during most of the outbound part of my ride. That meant, of course, that the wind pushed at my back on my way home.
And, of course, Dee-Lilah.
Well, almost everything was right. When I got to Point Lookout, the Point itself was closed. There were trucks and earthmovers and other kinds of machinery from some agency. The folks in them didn't want to talk and one of them glowered at me when I aimed my phone to take a photo. I just hope they're rebuilding the shoreline, which has been damaged by storms wrought by climate change our, ahem, political leaders deny. At least, I hope they're not readying the spot for some developer who wants to build condos or something.
The other part of my ride that could've been better was the traffic: I saw lots more of it almost everywhere. Worst of all, drivers were weaving--well over the speed limit, no less--with no apparent regard for anyone else. The ones who weren't driving that way seemed to be working as Uber drivers, picking up people--kids, mainly--in seemingly random places.
Then I remembered why: Yesterday was the last day of the academic term for New York school kids. I could understand the kids being a little crazy. But the adults?
Oh well. At least school was out for me, too, and I had a great ride nonetheless.
N.B.: The bag on the front is from--you guessed it--RuthWorks SF.
I also wrote about something to which I was accustomed practically from the moment I touched it: Dee-Lilah, my new Mercian Vincitore Special. She's a birthday gift to myself and, after my initial ride, I was going to "save" her until the day came. So much for my self-discipline.
Everything was right yesterday: Small puffs drifted across a blue sky, the air was warm but not oppressively so, and a brisk wind blew into my face during most of the outbound part of my ride. That meant, of course, that the wind pushed at my back on my way home.
And, of course, Dee-Lilah.
Well, almost everything was right. When I got to Point Lookout, the Point itself was closed. There were trucks and earthmovers and other kinds of machinery from some agency. The folks in them didn't want to talk and one of them glowered at me when I aimed my phone to take a photo. I just hope they're rebuilding the shoreline, which has been damaged by storms wrought by climate change our, ahem, political leaders deny. At least, I hope they're not readying the spot for some developer who wants to build condos or something.
The other part of my ride that could've been better was the traffic: I saw lots more of it almost everywhere. Worst of all, drivers were weaving--well over the speed limit, no less--with no apparent regard for anyone else. The ones who weren't driving that way seemed to be working as Uber drivers, picking up people--kids, mainly--in seemingly random places.
Then I remembered why: Yesterday was the last day of the academic term for New York school kids. I could understand the kids being a little crazy. But the adults?
Oh well. At least school was out for me, too, and I had a great ride nonetheless.
N.B.: The bag on the front is from--you guessed it--RuthWorks SF.
