Sparks, Bikes, and Games
Aug. 27th, 2010 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aE-lec-tric-i-tee. As of this evening, we have working lights again in our downstairs bathroom. Rather than buying a new light bar or anything of the sort, I ended up buying a new switch and rewiring the light. Yay me.
It's the first time I've ever done electrical work. I wouldn't have tried it if not for the revelation that the reason we couldn't find a light bar with a switch was ... that my dad had originally wired a regular one up with a switc for us when he & Mary got us some new bathroom stuff several years ago. Looking over his work, I thought it all looked simple enough, and, sure enough.
The real magic was in little caps that you use to join wires together. I'm pleased that I can now do the plain-stupid electrical stuff if I want.
2000 Miles. Last week my bike odometer hit 2000 miles. It was something like 10 months since I'd hit 1000 miles and 21 since I got the odometer for my bike.
The first year of new biking was largely recreational and exploratory. In the second year it's turned back into a mode of transit. There have been many fewer bike adventures--at least partially because I've been going hard on the RPG history book for much of 2010, and at least partially some because Kimberly was sick for much of the last 8 months--but still some, including a memorable trip down the San Francisco peninsula and another one up to the surprisingly close rural streets of El Sobrante. I also revisited a number of old routes, including the Iron Horse Trail, sections of the nearby Bay Trail, and several trips up the Ohlone Greenway. Contrariwise, I now have at least 25 miles of biking on my regular schedule every week: to and from Endgame twice and out grocery shopping once.
It's still been fun, and I'm still quite happy that I got started biking again two years ago, when it was one of the few things that would relieve my headaches.
For the next year, I have many adventures I'd still like to do, including a number of routes in San Francisco and some more of the good 'ole Bay Trail.
A Weird Weekend. It looks like this weekend will be an unusual one. My regular Saturday gaming got canceled at the last minute (e.g., a couple of hours ago). That's three in a row again, so apparently our flakiness is still upon us. But I really, really think we'll be back for one of the last Savage Tide adventures next week.
Meanwhile, I've got a game day up at Chris' on Sunday, which turned out to be great timing, given the collapse of Saturday plans. I haven't biked up to Chris' in a number of years, so I'll be curious to see if it's any easier now that I've been biking consistently for a couple of years. In olden days, there were a couple of hills that I just couldn't make it up without walking. However, I'll still not very good on hills, so we'll see.
Because of the topsy-turviness of those two events, Kimberly and I are doing our regular Sunday routines on Saturday. We're going to do some early morning grocery shopping, then probably do some hanging out.
It's the first time I've ever done electrical work. I wouldn't have tried it if not for the revelation that the reason we couldn't find a light bar with a switch was ... that my dad had originally wired a regular one up with a switc for us when he & Mary got us some new bathroom stuff several years ago. Looking over his work, I thought it all looked simple enough, and, sure enough.
The real magic was in little caps that you use to join wires together. I'm pleased that I can now do the plain-stupid electrical stuff if I want.
2000 Miles. Last week my bike odometer hit 2000 miles. It was something like 10 months since I'd hit 1000 miles and 21 since I got the odometer for my bike.
The first year of new biking was largely recreational and exploratory. In the second year it's turned back into a mode of transit. There have been many fewer bike adventures--at least partially because I've been going hard on the RPG history book for much of 2010, and at least partially some because Kimberly was sick for much of the last 8 months--but still some, including a memorable trip down the San Francisco peninsula and another one up to the surprisingly close rural streets of El Sobrante. I also revisited a number of old routes, including the Iron Horse Trail, sections of the nearby Bay Trail, and several trips up the Ohlone Greenway. Contrariwise, I now have at least 25 miles of biking on my regular schedule every week: to and from Endgame twice and out grocery shopping once.
It's still been fun, and I'm still quite happy that I got started biking again two years ago, when it was one of the few things that would relieve my headaches.
For the next year, I have many adventures I'd still like to do, including a number of routes in San Francisco and some more of the good 'ole Bay Trail.
A Weird Weekend. It looks like this weekend will be an unusual one. My regular Saturday gaming got canceled at the last minute (e.g., a couple of hours ago). That's three in a row again, so apparently our flakiness is still upon us. But I really, really think we'll be back for one of the last Savage Tide adventures next week.
Meanwhile, I've got a game day up at Chris' on Sunday, which turned out to be great timing, given the collapse of Saturday plans. I haven't biked up to Chris' in a number of years, so I'll be curious to see if it's any easier now that I've been biking consistently for a couple of years. In olden days, there were a couple of hills that I just couldn't make it up without walking. However, I'll still not very good on hills, so we'll see.
Because of the topsy-turviness of those two events, Kimberly and I are doing our regular Sunday routines on Saturday. We're going to do some early morning grocery shopping, then probably do some hanging out.