+3C, light cloud but missed the solar eclipse this morning.
It’s the time of year that people consider changing their career. Here is a good article BBC: greater job satisfaction, better pay and the feeling that you’ve actually done something in a manual job. ?What would I do? Plumbing, electrician or more probably something outside- fencing perhaps. My problem is vulnerability to backache. That rules out plumbing, or probably carpentry; too much twisting about in confined spaces.
-2°C, light cloud.
Last day, bit of a rush. Fit in a tight schedule, but I may have a new bike by the end of the day: if it fits. Rode 40 miles yesterday, more today if it’s no too cold.
Later: Did 38 miles today, the cold air softened after midday.
Okay, so I got it:
It needs a bit of customising- the stem is too short, it needs lights and probably mudguards. I rode it a bit and it seems very nimble, so far I’m impressed. Well, I did buy it.
4°C, grey, with traces of fog.
Running a trial of the newest Norton Internet Security suite. Nothing had changed over the years- it still slows the laptop down appallingly. At this rate, my patience will run out before the trial does, so will remove it.
+5C, same fog.
Tilda Swinton plays a slightly different role in Julia. I liked this one, despite the rather frantic endless feeling of peril. Go and see it.
Chronic Tendonitis: says the doctor. It’s worse right now, because, I think, I have a cold. I mean that there is a repeated coincidence where aching tendons occur when I have a cold. Is there a link? Does the virus attack membranes in joints at the same time as all that action in the nose & throat?
The doctor didn’t think so, but I will still look out for and studies on this. You have ot be careful about this sort of thing because as human nature- we are prone to look for patterns, sometimes where none exist.
3°C, fog.
My cold continues to worsen.
BBC: “Its survey of 2,170 people aged 16 to 25 revealed almost half had problems such as self-harm and insomnia” news story of the day. This is so typical, there is no comparison with people in work. Half can’t sleep, or worse: how many people with a job have the same problems? No mention.
+2°C, fog & rain
I have a cold, but it’s my precious holiday. Damn
+2C, rain & sleet. Melting.
I have a new place to put videos- Vimeo. It’s like YouTube, but rather more grown up. That’s most obvious in the comments columns; so far I have not seen any of the Tourettes comments that is the norm on YouTube. Have a look here
Kona do a single-speed that may be just right. I only found it today, supplied by Evans. The frame is square- meaning the toptube & seat tubes are the same length. With a change of stem, this could do the job with its 23.5″ top tube. It even has mud-guard ‘eyes’. I’m trying it out next week; in the meantime, think over where I’m going to store it.
Kona Paddy wagon
-3°C still damned cold.
No convincing end in sight, though only -3°C, this could easily go on for 3 months. But it won’t!
I’ve missed 1,000 miles of cycling because of ice. the end is nigh.
-6°C,
It’s the 20th today, a good time to start christmas shopping you must agree. Icy roads are mitigating, certainly no trip to Birmingham this year. Oh, and this December is said to be the harshest for a century!
No cycling for a week it appears, the ice is against it. I have done some tiling in the kitchen. Prepare to be impressed; it’s the white tiles you know…
You can’t see the unfinished bit in this shot.
Crazy laptop widget thinks it’s -11°
-7°C, brighter, snow is setting harder.
Christmas Carol service at St. Pauls in Brum last night. Very nice, as was the German market. Forecast says “vewy fwozen with vewy heavy snowfalls with a bweeze picking up”. the streets of Birmingham are thick with snow, a foot deep in places.
A turbo session today then.
Micycle 