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rebeccmeister ([personal profile] rebeccmeister) wrote2022-01-15 07:54 pm

Ghosts; bikes

A post by a friend on the tweet-machine reminded me that this mornin I woke up thinking about ghosts.

Can one person or animal turn into multiple ghosts, at multiple locations? Or are we all limited to just one ghost option? If so, I am not sure where I would want to haunt at this stage. Are we confined to haunting a place associated with where we die?

I could see Emma haunting this house, although I don’t think she would be a happy ghost cat here. I don’t think New York really agreed with her. I don’t think I’d want to haunt this house, either.

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The rowing club leadership typically holds a set of two long planning meetings in the winter, one in December, one in January. I was kind of dreading trying to lead this morning’s meeting from the iPad. We have to access a bunch of files and I haven’t figured that out yet on this thing.

Then I realized I should just bike into work for the meeting. I had to go into work today anyway, to work on changing out the large saltwater flow through tank.

The thermometer on the back porch read -4 degrees F when I left this morning.

My thighs were cold but the rest of me was fine. I was wearing wool long underwear under some windbreaker pants. I am concluding that wool long underwear isn’t a great under layer for bike commuting, unfortunately. Not durable enough, and clearly not *quite* warm enough. I need to keep an eye out for more capris-style fuzzy tights. The long wool fuzzy tights from Smartwool are great, except they still suffer from the fundamental issue of being long tights. I was realizing what I hate about long tights is that they inevitably pull downward for me, so I always find myself constantly trying to hitch them up. Capris-length tights don’t have that issue, and I can always keep my ankles warm with knee-high wool socks and leg warmers (which I definitely wore today!).

By the time I got home from everything, including a quick grocery trip, the thermometer read +4 degrees F. Not so bad.

Good training for Winter Bike to Work Day in February.
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[personal profile] twoeleven 2022-01-16 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose.

I think the choices are either the semi-empirical approach used by Spengler and Stantz in the early '80s, or pure model-building to develop falsifiable hypotheses. The former is more fun, despite the amount of fieldwork required, but the latter is probably more fruitful in the long run.
Edited 2022-01-16 22:31 (UTC)