<formalpara>

[dmaze]

Bike. At night is a nice time to ride. The bike path is not such a nice place for it. Need better lights. I'm contemplating insanity, probably on Saturday: train to Ayer, Nashua River Rail Trail and then Route 111 to Nashua, NH, then back to either Lowell (~40 miles total) or all the way back (~60 miles total). Estimates are probably low, especially the Lowell-to-Somerville difference.

SIPB. So glad I've refrained from entering any of the conversation. So sad that some people just seem to be out to prevent anything from being done. So terrible that others just seem to want to release random flames. Not My Problem.

Work. I seem to have landed myself a Project. If I can get myself into it, I should be really psyched about it. Goal for this week: get really psyched about it. I was able to combine our product and my l33t DocBook sk1llz fairly prettily, though.

On LiveJournal. Don't know how sketchy it is to LJ-friend random undergrads, both ones I've met and ones I haven't. Should come up with a good way to read journals without LJ-friending. Stupid multi-purpose ACLs. Found the empty leland_hs community. Amused by posts about beds in davis_square. People who post ads to multiple communities in the same geographic area suck. High-traffic communities and RSS feeds make your friends list difficult to read.

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- before commenting in davis_square I checked the thread to see if you'd been there first ;). I thought it would amuse you.

Lights: honestly, I'm not sure if any lights sufficiently bright for the path exist in the not-humongously-expensive price range, though you can look into what they've done with LEDs these days. At night I prefer Mass Ave, which is essentially the same route anyway, though much past Lexington Center it's pretty dark too.

[dmaze]

I was coming back from astra_nomer's, so decided the bike path was a Bad Idea and zipped down Mass. Ave. instead, yeah. Power outage in North Cambridge. Unfriendly. Crossing the Mass Ave/Alewife Brook Parkway intersection in the dark is un-fun. I think I still wanted more light for pothole avoidance, though.

[cfox.livejournal.com]

I got a little LED headlamp from Hilton's Tent City, intended for hiking/caving use ($25 or so). It ends up getting carried around in my bag and used for backup lighting, and that plus the standard cateye is enough for even the dirt path bit in Concord.

But then again, I'm sometimes happy enough with just the cateye on the minuteman.