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devilgrrlThis was my first day on my own here. Steven's leaving around 6am to catch his train now. I slept till about 9am, faffed around for a while, showered, and had lunch. Now, we have a PO Box, mainly for UltraLime, but for us too. All our mail is going there. It's really close to us here, so I got it into my head that I would walk down and get the mail. Of course, my knee HATES me for all the walking I did yesterday, so this was not a well advised thing. But wait... I have a bike!
Steven bought this bike for me several years ago, intending we would ride together. Unfortunately, this was somewhere around the time I hurt my knee, so this never went more than riding around DW Fields Park and me complaining the whole time. He's ridden it a couple times, but that's it. I pretty much just look at it. The second flaw is I've probably ridden a bike less than a dozen times IN MY LIFE and I've never ridden on a street. I have a helmet, but it's likely in the same place that my sunglasses and my sneakers are.
But frak that. I am going to ride my bike.
More problems: Steven's chained up all the bikes (fine) and not told me the combo (not fine). I texted him and got the code. Of course, then, it sticks horribly and I had a bitch of a time getting it apart. One call and a bunch of texts later, I have my bike out to discover he's not rearranged the seat. He's 5'8"; I am 5'3". Luckily, I am only mostly stupid. I figured out how to move my seat post and I was ready to go.
So here I am, biking down the street, no helmet, no chain, in zoris, with dry contacts in, my gas mask bag slung over my side, and my knee making faces at me. But dammit, I got there! I made it to the post office and...
NO MAIL.
So it was not a totally unproductive trip, I stopped by CVS with my $4 coupon from buying asprin yesterday and bought another stick of deodorant to the tune of $1.59. The whole thing took me about a half hour and was surprisingly fun, aside from the whole bike lock debacle. I may even continue this while I'm gloriously unemployed when I'm not taking the bus.
That appears to be tomorrow's plan: I am going to go ride the bus for most of the day and see if I can find the appropriate routes to get to RIC and Thayer Street and a couple other places. I'm tempted to try to catch the bus down to Newport this week-end and spend some quality time at Second Beach. The water temp here is between 64* and 67* right now, which is really nice for July 1. Definitely nicer than Mass Bay and its Labrador currents and cold water!
I think Steven and I are going to go to the Avon tonight and catch Mongol, depending on what time he gets back. Obviously, we're going to see it this week because it closes Friday, but it depends on when he gets back and how much time we have because we need to do some cleaning.
That's my adventure for today. After this, I'm ringing AAA about a job and I need to ring my doctor and get a copy of my immunizations and my latex allergy letter. Also: happy birthday tometalchick1000 and ragdollgirl. Hope it's a good one!
Steven bought this bike for me several years ago, intending we would ride together. Unfortunately, this was somewhere around the time I hurt my knee, so this never went more than riding around DW Fields Park and me complaining the whole time. He's ridden it a couple times, but that's it. I pretty much just look at it. The second flaw is I've probably ridden a bike less than a dozen times IN MY LIFE and I've never ridden on a street. I have a helmet, but it's likely in the same place that my sunglasses and my sneakers are.
But frak that. I am going to ride my bike.
More problems: Steven's chained up all the bikes (fine) and not told me the combo (not fine). I texted him and got the code. Of course, then, it sticks horribly and I had a bitch of a time getting it apart. One call and a bunch of texts later, I have my bike out to discover he's not rearranged the seat. He's 5'8"; I am 5'3". Luckily, I am only mostly stupid. I figured out how to move my seat post and I was ready to go.
So here I am, biking down the street, no helmet, no chain, in zoris, with dry contacts in, my gas mask bag slung over my side, and my knee making faces at me. But dammit, I got there! I made it to the post office and...
NO MAIL.
So it was not a totally unproductive trip, I stopped by CVS with my $4 coupon from buying asprin yesterday and bought another stick of deodorant to the tune of $1.59. The whole thing took me about a half hour and was surprisingly fun, aside from the whole bike lock debacle. I may even continue this while I'm gloriously unemployed when I'm not taking the bus.
That appears to be tomorrow's plan: I am going to go ride the bus for most of the day and see if I can find the appropriate routes to get to RIC and Thayer Street and a couple other places. I'm tempted to try to catch the bus down to Newport this week-end and spend some quality time at Second Beach. The water temp here is between 64* and 67* right now, which is really nice for July 1. Definitely nicer than Mass Bay and its Labrador currents and cold water!
I think Steven and I are going to go to the Avon tonight and catch Mongol, depending on what time he gets back. Obviously, we're going to see it this week because it closes Friday, but it depends on when he gets back and how much time we have because we need to do some cleaning.
That's my adventure for today. After this, I'm ringing AAA about a job and I need to ring my doctor and get a copy of my immunizations and my latex allergy letter. Also: happy birthday to
metalchick1000 and ragdollgirl. Hope it's a good one!