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Rite of Passage
School has started, both at UMBC and in the surrounding counties. That means more traffic to deal with, particularly during my morning rides. The first week is always the worst, after which things start to improve as people fall into a routine. I’m not crazy about this time of year, but it does have one…
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Final Summer Fling
It’s the last week of summer vacation for Howard and Baltimore counties, with students returning to school on Monday 8/30. That means this is the last week I get to enjoy relatively light traffic on my morning rides, before the roads get clogged with buses and other school traffic. This week I’m enjoying a few…
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Canceling Mortgage Escrow Account
A couple years ago, I wrote about how my mortgage company consistently mis-calculated my monthly escrow payment, arriving at figures that were either too high or too low, depending on the time of year the escrow analysis was done. Well, this past summer, the mortgage company ran another analysis and again came up with a…
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Dog Days
Yet another morning riding in the August soup. The beginning of the week was hot-and-sunny soup, and the past 2 days have been damp-and-cloudy soup with the requisite messy storms mixed in. I biked to work 4 days out of 5, shrewdly taking off on Tuesday, which was the hottest day of the week. This…
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July finally over
Well.. a truly miserable July, the hottest in recent memory, is finally over. Let’s see what August has in store. I finished July up with roughly 15 rides. I say “roughly” because I’ve gotten kinda lazy with keeping ride stats lately, and sort of forgot to record any of my rides after July 14. So…