Commuting is... boring.

hey hey... weather has turned, groovy stuff, minus 27 is a-ok in my book! the bike is rocking balls! yesterday morning the ride was a little scary because it was minus 33 (-44 with windchill) and i knew that if i stopped pedaling and engaged the freewheel there would be no coming back (that is to say it would not spring back and catch the tire)... a couple of cool things happened though, the sched DC-3 of Buffalo Ice Pilots fame flew directly over me while i was peddling over the bridge, not too many people can say they were riding a bike in the middle of minus 30 december when a world war II radial thunders overhead, it was as it always is, a thrill... even in the summer when the noise isn't as loud it is something else. i love how that plane is so old but keeps on flying very inspiring and a true testament to reliability. but commuting is the same everyday... dark, nervous when trucks are on the road and same route... oh well familiarity is alright i guess... it is reminding me that i should get outta this town for a while at some point.

The ride home last night was awesome, the wind was at my back and it warmed up to -27, my freewheel worked and i blazed home with the help of the wind. i'm also surprised at how much of a difference in speed the temperature makes, and it isn't even a wide margin, -27 for some reason is way faster than anything lower than -30... it's weird because when you ski you just say it's slow, you can't tell the difference between -27 and -30 but on a bike i guess the lubricants are more sensitive to the temperature changes. anyway, still a little concerned with riding at temps lower than 30 but right now it's "no money, no choice" so i'll continue to bust out.

i had a nice weekend... mostly i played Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time on saturday... fun game, funny too. nice mix of puzzles and gunplay combat. honestly Ratchet and Clank represent to me the best part of video games... fun. crazy insane weapons, over the top bad guys, humor and a play at your pace style. the play is as complex as you want to make it and amping up the difficulty definitely provides a challenge. anywho you got a PS3 you like fun games where you shoot stuff and beat crazy monsters and robots to death with a wrench that is somehow also a boomerang give it a shot... or ask for it for christmas... definitely worth it.

throwing some piggy banks this morning... they look like munitions shells, or boobs, or... the kremlin? you decide.


i like 'em... fun to make doesn't really matter if they are even or not no trimming involved i can do more of this... it's fun and nice to stretch a bit. also i'm looking forward to squirreling away cash in one of my own and i really can't wait to smash the sucker when it's stuffed and see how much cash-e-ola is inside. maybe i'll finally have enough to buy that irradiated super chimp and get rid of that pesky weasel with the eyepatch and bird... he's such a nuisance... i did make up a back story for him based on what i know... i suspect he was once a pet on a pirate ship hence the mischievous nature and the colourful bird... perhaps the bird was a pet too... but now that there are no more pirate on the great slave lake he has retired to pester me at the strangest times in the strangest ways, well that's as near as i can figure it... have a great week. rock the commute! -b