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Electric
I don’t post much about work on my blog, unless you count the act of getting to and from work on my bike. This past weekend, UMBC lost power for around 72 hours, and the IT support/admin guys in our area were scrambling around madly the entire weekend, almost 24/7, trying to keep key systems…
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Battle of the Bulge
Well, as it always seems to now, summer has arrived in May in the Mid-Atlantic. We opened the pool last weekend, and the water temperature is already pushing 80°. By Sunday, it’ll likely be up to 82 or 83. Amusingly enough, we had the cover off the pool at 9:30am and the kids were in…
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Bike to Work Day 2011
Today is “Bike to Work Day” in central Maryland, so I did what I do pretty much every other day: I biked to work. Unfortunately there are no BtWD “rallies” anywhere near where I commute, so I didn’t register for the event, nor did I attend a rally. My hope is that eventually, this will…
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Yay.. more crappy weather for Bike to Work Week
Next week is “Bike to Work Week” in Maryland, and the weather looks like a carbon copy of last year’s Bike to Work Week: rain as far as the eye can see. With any luck, we’ll dry out by Friday, which is “Bike to Work Day.” But unfortunately, it’s not the kind of weather that…
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Time Trial
I found myself in an uncommon situation this morning. Normally I ride for about an hour to work each morning, taking various routes, and ultimately arriving at work between 8:30am and 9:00am. It works out great because I typically don’t have meetings before 10am, which allows plenty of time to cool off, freshen up, change…
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Long Road Home
I changed things up a bit for my ride home yesterday. I typically mix my routes up on my commute to work in the morning, but for the ride home, I take the same route every day. It’s relatively fast, traffic is not too bad, and it gets me home right around dinner time, so…
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Kool Stop Bead Jack
Another post-accident first for me today: I rode Landing Road, which is where I wiped out back in February. I have a rough idea where I crashed. I was headed westbound (towards Ilchester Rd) just a bit shy of the entrance to Rockburn Branch Park. There’s a downhill stretch in the area that curves to…
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Summer’s Back
Yet another year going straight from Winter to Summer in Maryland. The heat came on briefly in our house yesterday morning, and later today we may need to switch on the air conditioning. I’m back to the routine today, following a week in Cape Hatteras, which is pretty high up on my list of “places…
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Miserable Ride
Lesson of the day (reiterated): Just because there’s no green on the NWS radar, doesn’t mean it’s not raining. This morning, instead of a steady rain, we had a persistent mist with a steady wind. I’d take a downpour over the mist any day. The mist is relentless, hits you everywhere (as opposed to just…
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Almost made it
Today’s morning ride was a race against an oncoming mass of rain, and I didn’t quite make it. I rode around 14 miles, and the first 10 or so were dry, but then the rain caught up with me. When I set out, it was an exceptionally muggy 65° out, and by the time it…