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New heat index
Jun. 21st, 2008 10:41 pmToday, in extreme brief:
1. Farmer's Market
2. Lux coffee
3. Burton Barr Public Library for Solstice event - lighting even more incredible than I had remembered it last year. I wish you could have been there.
4. I discovered that my bike odometer/computer has an upper heat limit. When I emerged from the library to ride home, the screen consisted of a big, black splotch. My bike had been in the sun, and the metal parts were quite hot. After I'd been home for a while, it seemed to recover, which is fortunate, but it also means I can't give you a heat report from the ride home, except to say, it was hot, and very. I rode past a school that declared 109 degrees F, which was possibly true for locations in the shade and not near pavement. However, last I checked, bicycles ride in full sun across pavement.
Nor can I give you a total mileage report, except to say, maybe only around 35 miles today. Oh, also, I think the metal components of my seat conduct heat straight to my rear end. I was careful to cover my seat with my helmet whenever I went inside somewhere, so the burning wasn't as bad as usual, but still, the burning. Welcome to mid-day bicycle-riding in the summer. I saw only one spandex-clad bicyclist, and a small handful of other riders.
5. Errands. Still hot. After sitting in a/c, going back outside into the heat felt like a thousand tiny pin pricks of heat were needling into my skin.
6. Worked on my worm bin. It won't be beautiful, but it will be hand-built by me.
7. Groceries
8. Frittata, cookies, bed.
Good night.
1. Farmer's Market
2. Lux coffee
3. Burton Barr Public Library for Solstice event - lighting even more incredible than I had remembered it last year. I wish you could have been there.
4. I discovered that my bike odometer/computer has an upper heat limit. When I emerged from the library to ride home, the screen consisted of a big, black splotch. My bike had been in the sun, and the metal parts were quite hot. After I'd been home for a while, it seemed to recover, which is fortunate, but it also means I can't give you a heat report from the ride home, except to say, it was hot, and very. I rode past a school that declared 109 degrees F, which was possibly true for locations in the shade and not near pavement. However, last I checked, bicycles ride in full sun across pavement.
Nor can I give you a total mileage report, except to say, maybe only around 35 miles today. Oh, also, I think the metal components of my seat conduct heat straight to my rear end. I was careful to cover my seat with my helmet whenever I went inside somewhere, so the burning wasn't as bad as usual, but still, the burning. Welcome to mid-day bicycle-riding in the summer. I saw only one spandex-clad bicyclist, and a small handful of other riders.
5. Errands. Still hot. After sitting in a/c, going back outside into the heat felt like a thousand tiny pin pricks of heat were needling into my skin.
6. Worked on my worm bin. It won't be beautiful, but it will be hand-built by me.
7. Groceries
8. Frittata, cookies, bed.
Good night.
