the wheels go round and round
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mishadayI bought a bike yesterday, and am all hurty in interesting places today.
Mind you, I haven't been on a bike in about 14 years. The last time I was over at my friend Holly's house in 8th grade, and she let me ride her 10-speed. It was green. I nearly smacked into a parked car. The time before that I was still riding my yellow banana seat bike down to the local park to walk/run the dog and pretend I was riding my gold dragon on Pern. I'd close my eyes for three second to emulate going between.
So in my running around yesterday getting signed up for classes, I got myself a helmet and some lights on campus for fairly cheap, and then had Dru bring my running shoes to Recycled Cycles so I could ride it home, and bought myself a cheap old Schwinn 10-speed. $50. Dru had to teach me how to shift, and things were actually going rather swimmingly until we hit the Wallingford hill. Ow. Can we say out of shape?
And besides the muscle thing, there was the bike saddle thing rubbing in interesting places thing. Hence the hurty.
Otherwise I'm fiiine. Rhonda is a goddess, and gives good massage, so the rest of me is all happy and relaxed. My mousing hand is much stronger than my other, and I seem to keep stress there - I'll have to use my lefty trackball more often. (two handed mousing! Dangerous, I is. ;)
I'd intended to start taking actual classes this quarter: The Bible as Literature is particularly fascinating. Alas, I was looking at Distance Learning, and I can't get my employee tuition waiver for those. Didn't find that out until day of deadline, which sort of sunk my impetus. So instead I'll take Belly Dancing again, a little one-shot called Introduction to Book Collecting (as opposed to hoarding, which is what I do), Book in a Box, which is all about book-binding, and a beginning weightlifting class down at the IMA.
HP has spiked my book-reading. I finished The Tomorrow Log by Lee and Miller two days ago and March to the Stars by Weber and Ringo last night. I'm annoyed at John Ringo right now - he's a good author, but he really likes killing off his characters. Especially the beloved ones - it's as if Rowling had axed most of the Hogwarts faculty and a significant part of Gryffindor, over the course of three books. That really messes with my happy endings. And worst of all, I know he's being restrained by Weber - in his solo series, he's much more indiscriminate.
In a few minutes I'll be running down to the Dental wing to see if I'll be eligible for the Gum Study. $100 for chewing gum for 6 months.
Mind you, I haven't been on a bike in about 14 years. The last time I was over at my friend Holly's house in 8th grade, and she let me ride her 10-speed. It was green. I nearly smacked into a parked car. The time before that I was still riding my yellow banana seat bike down to the local park to walk/run the dog and pretend I was riding my gold dragon on Pern. I'd close my eyes for three second to emulate going between.
So in my running around yesterday getting signed up for classes, I got myself a helmet and some lights on campus for fairly cheap, and then had Dru bring my running shoes to Recycled Cycles so I could ride it home, and bought myself a cheap old Schwinn 10-speed. $50. Dru had to teach me how to shift, and things were actually going rather swimmingly until we hit the Wallingford hill. Ow. Can we say out of shape?
And besides the muscle thing, there was the bike saddle thing rubbing in interesting places thing. Hence the hurty.
Otherwise I'm fiiine. Rhonda is a goddess, and gives good massage, so the rest of me is all happy and relaxed. My mousing hand is much stronger than my other, and I seem to keep stress there - I'll have to use my lefty trackball more often. (two handed mousing! Dangerous, I is. ;)
I'd intended to start taking actual classes this quarter: The Bible as Literature is particularly fascinating. Alas, I was looking at Distance Learning, and I can't get my employee tuition waiver for those. Didn't find that out until day of deadline, which sort of sunk my impetus. So instead I'll take Belly Dancing again, a little one-shot called Introduction to Book Collecting (as opposed to hoarding, which is what I do), Book in a Box, which is all about book-binding, and a beginning weightlifting class down at the IMA.
HP has spiked my book-reading. I finished The Tomorrow Log by Lee and Miller two days ago and March to the Stars by Weber and Ringo last night. I'm annoyed at John Ringo right now - he's a good author, but he really likes killing off his characters. Especially the beloved ones - it's as if Rowling had axed most of the Hogwarts faculty and a significant part of Gryffindor, over the course of three books. That really messes with my happy endings. And worst of all, I know he's being restrained by Weber - in his solo series, he's much more indiscriminate.
In a few minutes I'll be running down to the Dental wing to see if I'll be eligible for the Gum Study. $100 for chewing gum for 6 months.
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Date: 2003-06-26 09:38 am (UTC)The mousing/stress thing--my whole right arm has been really bad, achy and weak, and my massage therapist says it's partly mousing, partly stress in my neck clenching down on nerves. She did some work on my neck and my whole arm went owie, and my fingers lost feeling for a minute. So--icing my neck now. So I sympathise, man... I wish I could left mouse, but I'm not ambidextrous enough...
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Date: 2003-06-26 10:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-26 10:00 am (UTC)Butt ouchiness is why I don't ride my boke much. Heh. I need to get one of those seats.
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Date: 2003-06-26 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-26 07:51 pm (UTC)If you're willing to lug around more weight, just get a nice gel seat cushion via your local sports store. A friend got one for around $30.
Other than that, might my "interesting areas" suggest this product: http://pricepoint.com/product1185.html ($55+shipping). (Or maybe you can find the previous year's models around for cheaper.) I mountain-bike with mine, and dang if it isn't comfy-er than the guy-seats that they sell with the bikes.
--Laranth