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Tomorrow's ride cancelled because I didn't give a darn
"Darn" isn't a euphemism. It's predicted to be well below zero tomorrow, and my alpaca tights need mending. I wonder whether people who use Celsius exclusively have a name for the temperature at which road salt stops working and below which frozen food will keep forever. Ah, well, I need driving practice and we are getting low on seltzer and other things too heavy to bring home by bike. Yes, I did bring home a case of beer bungeed to the rack of my bike once. *Once*. And if I put two cartons of seltzer in my panniers, there isn't any room for anything else. I want at least half a dozen, and also Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper. We're also low on frozen "I don't feel like cooking tonight"s. I did climb stairs three times today. When we had a multi-floor house, I'd climb stairs more than three times per hour when I had a load of wash in. But I was really glad to be all on one floor this time last year, when my meralgia parasthetica advanced into sciatica. All praise to the guy who invented fluoroscopic steroid shots! -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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Tomorrow's ride cancelled because I didn't give a darn
On 1/20/2019 11:40 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
"Darn" isn't a euphemism. It's predicted to be well below zero tomorrow, and my alpaca tights need mending. I wonder whether people who use Celsius exclusively have a name for the temperature at which road salt stops working and below which frozen food will keep forever. How about "Darned cold"? ;-) Yes, I did bring home a case of beer bungeed to the rack of my bike once. *Once*. I did that quite a few times, back in the days when I could buy a case of beer in bottles and return them for a deposit. I felt quite virtuous, figuring that one factory washing bottles made a lot more sense than a different factory re-melting glass to make new bottles. Bit I stopped doing that after the beer store stiffed me on the deposit a couple times. To my surprise, their policy was "There are only 23 bottles, so you don't get the deposit." :-( -- - Frank Krygowski |
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Tomorrow's ride cancelled because I didn't give a darn
Just as well. Aside from needing to re-stock the freezer, I'd have had to walk clear downtown before it was safe to mount my bike -- and there was no place to walk but in the roadway. The tire tracks in the incoming lane started before the tire tracks in the outgoing lane, and the incoming lane continued to be cleaner nearly to the entrance. You'd think that in the morning in a bedroom town, it would be the other way around. On the way home, I saw two bike riders -- one on Argonne Road, and one crossing it. It's physically possible that they were the same guy, but not likely. I accidentally went to three stores. As I was looking for a parking space in Martin's lot, I suddenly realized that this was not Aldi. I'm not at all surprised if I turn toward Owen's when I meant to go to the fairground, but I don't have a habitual route to Martin's -- indeed, this was they very first time I've gone out on Center and turned left onto US 30, though I've gone east on 30 countless times. So I decided that as long as I was there, I'd go in and buy some Brownberry buns that aren't available at Aldi or Owen. It's usually difficult to get out of Martin's driveway onto Husky Trail, but much to my surprise, when I wanted out, there wasn't a soul in sight in either direction. That had changed an hour or two later when I wanted to get out of Aldi's driveway onto Husky Trail. I mis-judged the four-way stop at Husky and Parker, but by great good fortune the pavement was *not* icy and a hard jab on the brakes kept me from hitting the unexpected pick-up truck. Then I merged in behind him and nothing had happened. Also spent a long time in Owen's, because Aldi sells hardly any pre-cooked meals, and most of what they do sell is for large families. I did get lots of pizzas at both stores. It took quite a while to carry all the stuff into the house when I got home. I don't recall seeing any Amish vans at the new Aldi, I suddenly realize. I saw them at the old Aldi all the time. (There is a van with a cargo trailer that takes Amish women shopping. Probably more than one.) Perhaps they do all their shopping on-line now. Some folks think that they don't like technology, but they love it as much as they love their horses -- like the horses, they don't let it into the house. When a spammer wakes me up just as I've settled down to sleep, I see their point. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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