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Jul. 8th, 2012 03:08 pmIt's too fucking hot. It's so hot a plane sank into the tarmac at DCA. (This is of course because DC is cheap and uses tar instead of cement for runways and roads.)
So I'm hiding inside, in the air conditioning. I did go out to the farmers market, and gave myself a headache for my troubles. Bah. Now I'm slowly doing a fridge inventory. Slowly because I will have to take the trash out once I'm done. I don't want to go out. Instead, I ground some coffee and then made myself a large pot of it in the vac-pot. I love the vac-pot. It looks and sounds like a mad scientist's contraption. Later I will make some pesto, except that I need more olive oil and I don't want to go to the store and get it. Sense a theme?
Have been at new job for three and a half weeks. My Capital Bikeshare fob finally arrived last week, so I've been biking to work most days now. I don't usually bother to bike home... though, some days I'm meeting nick in the west end or dupont, and I will bike there. But pushing a 42-lb crappy three-speed bike up the fall line terraces? No fucking way. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the concept. And, you know, if I felt like taking my 17-lb LeMond Zurich to work I don't doubt I'd bike home (it's not like the 16th street hill is that much worse than the Custiss switchbacks). But even on the flats, pushing a CaBi bike feels like it has all the aero of a bright red brick. Still, it's a bright red brick that generates a breeze, means I don't get stuck in the tunnels, and is free as long as I don't take more than 30 minutes to get to work. I also can usually keep up with people on their hybrids, which actually kind of astounds me. I'm still trying to find the optimal route to work; downtown traffic is a nightmare, and the worst offenders are the buses- they deliberately cut you off and then stop immediately in front of you, causing you to try futilely to come to a stop while choking on 150-degree fumes. As one might imagine, brakes on a 42-lb bike are really more of a vague plea than anything else.
I'm enjoying work, though I did have a slightly disturbing dream last night that I was actually working on campus in my new job, had a bike but I forgot to bring my lock, and when I finally went into the library/computer room with my bike, discovered that water was rushing out of the drop ceiling and none of the phones were hooked up for me to reach facilities. (Why do I still know the extension of facilities at UMD in my sleep?) I'm still in the trying to wrap my head around everything phase; there is going to be a ton of work hitting me soon.
Seriously, have neteng tools not changed at all in the last decade? Am I really going to be installing RANCID, which is still partially based on tools my boss wrote at SURAnet in 199-cough, mumble, three? oi vey. Glad to see I can ignore routers for a decade but nothing changes.
So I'm hiding inside, in the air conditioning. I did go out to the farmers market, and gave myself a headache for my troubles. Bah. Now I'm slowly doing a fridge inventory. Slowly because I will have to take the trash out once I'm done. I don't want to go out. Instead, I ground some coffee and then made myself a large pot of it in the vac-pot. I love the vac-pot. It looks and sounds like a mad scientist's contraption. Later I will make some pesto, except that I need more olive oil and I don't want to go to the store and get it. Sense a theme?
Have been at new job for three and a half weeks. My Capital Bikeshare fob finally arrived last week, so I've been biking to work most days now. I don't usually bother to bike home... though, some days I'm meeting nick in the west end or dupont, and I will bike there. But pushing a 42-lb crappy three-speed bike up the fall line terraces? No fucking way. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the concept. And, you know, if I felt like taking my 17-lb LeMond Zurich to work I don't doubt I'd bike home (it's not like the 16th street hill is that much worse than the Custiss switchbacks). But even on the flats, pushing a CaBi bike feels like it has all the aero of a bright red brick. Still, it's a bright red brick that generates a breeze, means I don't get stuck in the tunnels, and is free as long as I don't take more than 30 minutes to get to work. I also can usually keep up with people on their hybrids, which actually kind of astounds me. I'm still trying to find the optimal route to work; downtown traffic is a nightmare, and the worst offenders are the buses- they deliberately cut you off and then stop immediately in front of you, causing you to try futilely to come to a stop while choking on 150-degree fumes. As one might imagine, brakes on a 42-lb bike are really more of a vague plea than anything else.
I'm enjoying work, though I did have a slightly disturbing dream last night that I was actually working on campus in my new job, had a bike but I forgot to bring my lock, and when I finally went into the library/computer room with my bike, discovered that water was rushing out of the drop ceiling and none of the phones were hooked up for me to reach facilities. (Why do I still know the extension of facilities at UMD in my sleep?) I'm still in the trying to wrap my head around everything phase; there is going to be a ton of work hitting me soon.
Seriously, have neteng tools not changed at all in the last decade? Am I really going to be installing RANCID, which is still partially based on tools my boss wrote at SURAnet in 199-cough, mumble, three? oi vey. Glad to see I can ignore routers for a decade but nothing changes.
