Nice day for a bike ride...
Nov. 2nd, 2012 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardActually, it's not a terribly nice day for a bike ride, but I'm ready for one so I'll do one at lunchtime if I get enough work done.
Wednesday I had hopes of going out but life happened and I wound up working until the first hobgoblin showed up.
But yesterday I took my creaking knees out for a brief ride to a meeting and oh! were they happy afterwards. I'm determined to get at least a few miles in today -- if nothing else, a run to the Wal*Mart for greek yogurt and cheap coffee.
I'm a little bemused by some of the Hurricane Sandy aftermath things. On the plus side, we have New Jersey governor Chris Christie working side-by-side with president Barack Obama, which is a good thing. On the negative side, we have utility crews from Alabama being turned away because they don't belong to some union. We have the head of Staten Island blasting the Red Cross for being slow with aid. While I'm no fan of the Red Cross, I remember a whole lot of FEMA officials standing up in disaster planning meetings in the past and saying folks are basically on their own for the first four days because it takes that long to get aid into an area. On the other other hand, I can see the frustration of the Staten Island folks when they see that New York Mayor Bloomberg is going to go ahead with the New York Marathon. And I can see the determination of Mayor Bloomberg to show that New York is open for business.
Meanwhile, I'm good. The only hurricane un-prep remaining is putting the plants back outside, just in time to get zapped by the first frost, due here this weekend according to Wunderground.
Wednesday I had hopes of going out but life happened and I wound up working until the first hobgoblin showed up.
But yesterday I took my creaking knees out for a brief ride to a meeting and oh! were they happy afterwards. I'm determined to get at least a few miles in today -- if nothing else, a run to the Wal*Mart for greek yogurt and cheap coffee.
I'm a little bemused by some of the Hurricane Sandy aftermath things. On the plus side, we have New Jersey governor Chris Christie working side-by-side with president Barack Obama, which is a good thing. On the negative side, we have utility crews from Alabama being turned away because they don't belong to some union. We have the head of Staten Island blasting the Red Cross for being slow with aid. While I'm no fan of the Red Cross, I remember a whole lot of FEMA officials standing up in disaster planning meetings in the past and saying folks are basically on their own for the first four days because it takes that long to get aid into an area. On the other other hand, I can see the frustration of the Staten Island folks when they see that New York Mayor Bloomberg is going to go ahead with the New York Marathon. And I can see the determination of Mayor Bloomberg to show that New York is open for business.
Meanwhile, I'm good. The only hurricane un-prep remaining is putting the plants back outside, just in time to get zapped by the first frost, due here this weekend according to Wunderground.
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