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Today was not a good drawing day at all. I had difficulty finding a place to sit when I first boarded, and when I finally managed to find a seat, everyone within drawing distance was behaving like they had downed a pot of coffee.
I walked to work for the first time in weeks today, and it was delightful. Now that we've thrown off the shackles of daylight savings time, the sun is up bright and early, and the air is crisp and cool, and life is just grand. Of course, thanks to it being too dark to walk in the mornings and me being on vacation there at the end of October, I missed pretty much all of this year's foliage. Of course, it's not like cornfields are long on fall color anyway.
The best part about my walking to work today, though, was that I ended up having to take pictures of an awards ceremony at my department's town hall meeting. Normally they just use someone's dinky little point-and-shoot, but it was on the fritz; thinking I had my p&s with me, I was all, "Oh, I'll do it for y'all!" Then I remembered that all I had with me was the DSLR with 70-300mm lens on it. It was a bit like bringing a howitzer to a knife fight. I got a lot of shit from people for being the douchebag with too much camera. Oh well. I'll chalk it up to team-building.
--Schn.
2010 Bike 180: 037 (14 Apr)
Multi-modal work commute, 8.73mi riding
Harry Grove Stadium, Frederick Keys vs. Myrtle Beach Pelicans. Keys won 6-0.
Although there's no wifi yet, you can still get some stuff done on the train. Try doing that in your car on the 101 (actually, don't).
(Note: Screen intentionally blurred ;-))
every. single. day. when I take the metro there is at least one person passed out at Papineau and at least two passed out at Beaudry. Judging by the clothing, I think a lot of them are strung out club kids from the village.
Dude, I have no idea what I was thinking leaping out of bed at 5:45 this morning, but there you go. Leaving that early meant that the sunrise (which is pretty late anyway) was over the farm fields instead of McMansionville.
--Schn.
Businesses are closing way to rapidly in Takoma Park. Glad rags windows and merchandise has been entertaining me while waiting for the bus for years now. This is very sad! A real creative lady owned this store.
Climate change protesters at Smithfield this morning. The banner reads: '18% of greenhouse gases are produced by animal farming, fight climate change, go vegan, climate camp'.
The picture was sent from my iPhone so is not great and it’s hard to see what’s going on but some people have climbed on to the roof and unfurled a banner and all the white-coated workers from Smithfield Meat market have come out to watch. The police have just turned up but don’t seem too concerned - yet.
It’s a busy part of London this time of the morning (about 8.20am) with people going to work, vans making deliveries, and the meat market coming to the end of business for the day.
I’ll update the image with a better quality one later when I can download from my camera.
Someone is trying to kill me on my walk to work! This trap was RIGHT where I walk -- I barely survived it!
"When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart'
Cause we're all a part of the ordinary miracle"
-Sarah McClachlan
Got back home in Daylight and two trains were in the station. The green Central train on the left with the Chiltern speeding through the station on the right.
I went into work a different way today. As I was going up Holborn Kingsway I saw this lovely bit of steeply architecture. I've never noticed it before and will have to investigate what it belongs to.
There's some really interesting places around there; Lincoln's Inn Fields, Sir John Soans house, the Inns of Court...
2010 Bike 180: 011 (28 Jan)
Multi-modal work commute, 8.19mi riding
Skipped tonight's ride home from the train station, thanks to another late night at the office and too much headwind for my taste.