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.
There Are Rivers in the Sky and The Secret Lives of Numbers
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…
Fall colours!
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…
Great scooter season is coming to an end, I think
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…
Rat City and real ones
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…
Chop, Fry, Watch, Learn
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…
Ottawa bike locker review
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,…
Mid-September ride roundup
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…
Code Girls / May Our Joy Endure
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…
Days 6, 7, 8, and 9 of a perfect string of cycle commute weather
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…