Ghosts; bikes
Jan. 15th, 2022 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterA 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.
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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Date: 2022-01-16 10:30 pm (UTC)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.