(Mis)adventures in food

While away, ate:

• Chicago pizza
• Chicago hot dogs
• Chicago Mexican

All of these met expectations.

Somer-r-r-ville and Medford-d-d-d

Lunchtime seemed plausibly temperate, so I tried pulling the bike out of the basement for a quick ride. I got to use the very exciting repair stand to pump my tires up from "flat" and apply chain lube as needed, and tried dressing up as warm as I have bikeable clothes for, and headed out in the general direction of Boston Ave. Let's say that I remember how the clipless pedals and the general bike thing work, and that I made it as far as West Medford before turning back for about 6 miles in all. It was windy, and I've kind of fallen out of shape a little over the winter, and I do need to act on that Hiveminder item to get warmer bike clothes ("high of 51" isn't that warm).

Still, if next weekend will be this warm (very preliminary forecast is that Saturday will be sunny with a high of 47) maybe I'll start calling it "spring" for biking purposes. Or else, I'll call it my last chance to go skiing this season. Hmm.