Wasted day
Jun. 28th, 2003 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeOnce I got going today, I made plans for an elaborate biking trip with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
76trombones. Packed my backpack, got lunch and extra film, came back to discover that I couldn't actually get to my bike. So instead spent the afternoon surfing the Web and playing Angband (and getting hosed by the game a lot, no, really). And now whatever it is I might have done with a not-quite-so-oppressively-hot day -- even just gone to MIT and scanned the rest of my Grand Canyon pictures -- I haven't done it.
The bike trip: The plan was to head for Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newbury. We were initially going to meet at North Station, take the commuter rail all the way to Newburyport, and eat lunch and bike; we pushed back to the 1:30 train, giving us three and a half hours to bike perhaps as far as 20 miles, looking at the map. My plan was just to follow the main road along there.
The failure: Several weeks ago, our landlord was painting the back porch. This was problematic, in that my bike was parked there. It moved to the side of the house briefly; then the landlord offered to move it into the basement to protect it from imminent rain. Since this was right before I went to California, it sounded like a good idea. The problem is, the bike is still there, but the landlord was away today ("he has a life, imagine that"). So...
76trombones. Packed my backpack, got lunch and extra film, came back to discover that I couldn't actually get to my bike. So instead spent the afternoon surfing the Web and playing Angband (and getting hosed by the game a lot, no, really). And now whatever it is I might have done with a not-quite-so-oppressively-hot day -- even just gone to MIT and scanned the rest of my Grand Canyon pictures -- I haven't done it.The bike trip: The plan was to head for Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newbury. We were initially going to meet at North Station, take the commuter rail all the way to Newburyport, and eat lunch and bike; we pushed back to the 1:30 train, giving us three and a half hours to bike perhaps as far as 20 miles, looking at the map. My plan was just to follow the main road along there.
The failure: Several weeks ago, our landlord was painting the back porch. This was problematic, in that my bike was parked there. It moved to the side of the house briefly; then the landlord offered to move it into the basement to protect it from imminent rain. Since this was right before I went to California, it sounded like a good idea. The problem is, the bike is still there, but the landlord was away today ("he has a life, imagine that"). So...
