October 28-30 rides
Monday and Tuesday this week were pretty chilly. I've got 12 shaves left until I can start to grow the Viking biking beard.
Monday and Tuesday this week were pretty chilly. I've got 12 shaves left until I can start to grow the Viking biking beard.
I enjoyed Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell's quick-read The Secret Lives of Numbers. It doesn't pretend to be an academic work, although a little grade 12 math is helpful in understanding…
I'm having some issues with connectivity at work and the job's been very busy past few weeks, so I haven't kept up on posting. The change in colours this week…
I've probably only got a couple of weeks left of scooting this year. I will miss it. My Synergy has performed flawlessly this summer after a couple of seasons with…
Like everything I've read and loved by Katherena Vermette, real ones is a rewarding story that delves into the lives of Métis women and their complicated relationships with each other, with…
I may yet go back and give Chop, Fry, Wath, Learn a 5/5. The writing lacked a certain sparkle, but this book by Michelle T. King otherwise incorporates much of…
The City of Ottawa has launched a new bike locker with three locations across the downtown. I do worry about my bike/scooter when I'm in the Market for a while,…
I've had some broken-up weeks with lots of working from home and at locations around my neighbourhood, and it's ben busy enough that much of the footage for those rides…
Liza Mundy's Code Girls was a rollick through the WWII-era American military industrial complex's recruitment of predominantly young educated women from women's colleges to work on code-breaking. Following one cohort…
Last week I posted a wrap post of my rides in asserting that that was probably the nicest week of the year we'd have to commute by bike. Actually. the…