Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Cycle Away the Pounds

Since the beginning of June, when I traded in driving my car all the time for the bus routes, and eventually added a bicycle to the picture, I’ve lost 7 pounds. :) Need to keep it up, which I’m not having a problem with.  Leaving my car behind.  I’m saving on fuel, I’m exercising, and I’m out enjoying the great Seattle landscape.  Only side effect so far is having the car battery drain too far twice on me, but that’s due to various electronics I have in the car pulling energy all the time.  I should unplug them, but instead I connect a battery charger and trickle charge the battery back to full now and again.

I really like my bicycle.  If I remember right, the bicycles has about 60 miles on it so far.  (The battery in my pedometer died months ago, so I have no idea how many miles I’ve walked from all this.)  I’m curious about what will happen as winter approaches.  With winter comes the rain, and riding my bike in the rain does not sound like a fun time.  I do have a rain suit, but while it keeps the rain out, it hold moisture in, and I hear people sometimes sweat when cycling.  If anyone has suggestions on biking in the rain, please, let me know.

Given it’s 3:30 am, I’m going to sleep.  See ya’z. :)

Seattle’s Hot Hot Hot

Some may recall my post last year where my in-vehicle display showed the outside temperature at 100 degrees (37 C).  We’re not quite there yet, but it was, and still is, warm out today.  Tomorrow’s supposed to be warmer, with some saying we’ll revisit that temperature.  Big difference this time around is the lower humidity.  While it may be warm out, at least it’s not hot and humid.

Not much else going on.  I was sick for a bit with some form of a cold that kept me home for a few days, but that’s said and done.  I haven’t been back to Cedar Point since opening weekend, and I’m noticing.  Oh, and my laptop was running really hot, so I took it apart and cleaned out some dust and applied some new thermal compound on the processor.  It’s running cooler again, but for those that know me well, I work my PCs beyond their maximum, so it still heats up a bit.  At least the paint has stopped falling off the bottom (for now?).

Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary Mom & Dad!

Today marks my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary (July 7, 1977).  Happy anniversary mom and dad!  :)