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    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 16 16:51:38 2025
    15 May 2025

    I climbed up into the attic today and brought down the
    orange -fanny- waist pack. I'd have preferred a small
    backpack -- particularly when it turned out that the waist
    pack has a hook instead of a buckle and has to be kept under
    tension to stay fastened, so I can't wear it as a snap sack
    as I'd intended.

    But the suitcases are well away from the only light up
    there, and the flashlight I brought along turned out to be
    feeble, so I couldn't see how large the summit pack and the
    tactical pack are. I knew that the waist pack was small,
    and I've worn it before.

    Suddenly bedtime. Perhaps I'll have computer time tomorrow.
    All that's on my agenda is washing cleaning rags and my
    Arachne shirt.

    16 May 2025

    Cleaning rags folded and put away. Cheating a bit: I'm not
    supposed to play with the computer until after supper, and I
    do have a seam pinned that I ought to be sewing. But I'm
    distracted now, and will be able to focus after supper.

    The Fat and Skinny Tire Festival is already underway. I
    think they had a "bike to work" ride this morning, and will
    stage a mass ride from downtown Winona Lake to downtown
    Warsaw this evening. Among the events are several rides
    that are a plausible substitute for the late lamented
    September Century.

    All I plan to attend is the Historical Tour tomorrow at one
    or three in the afternoon. My "wheelchair bike" (the Trek
    Pure step-through that I bought after discovering the hard
    way that I had come in with snow stuck to my boots) is
    appropriate for a two-mile ride with a dozen or two stops.
    Events like this are frequently photographed, so I don't
    want to wear clothes that clash with the bike.

    I won't have much time to change after my usual Saturday
    tour of three farmers markets, so I thought I'd just pull
    off my jersey and put on a shirt, but tights don't have
    eight pockets, and it would take a while to transfer stuff
    from my wallet into eight pockets if I had them -- hence the
    waist pack.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid on Sun May 18 22:19:46 2025
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 16:51:38 -0400, Joy Beeson
    <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

    All I plan to attend is the Historical Tour tomorrow at one
    or three in the afternoon. My "wheelchair bike" (the Trek
    Pure step-through that I bought after discovering the hard
    way that I had come in with snow stuck to my boots) is
    appropriate for a two-mile ride with a dozen or two stops.

    I forgot a few things about the wheelchair bike:

    Since one can't apply any force to the pedals, it wobbles
    wildly before getting up steerageway. This wasn't any
    problem when I used it to fetch festival food for our lunch
    today, but was a big problem when stops were just far enough
    apart that it wasn't reasonable to walk.

    The bike is hard to pedal, because one must sit bolt
    upright. Not a problem when cruising slowly, using bottom
    gear on slopes I'm unaware of when riding my Fuji, but a big
    problem when trying to match someone else's pace.

    You don't steer a flatfoot, you aim it. Not a problem on
    the street, but a real bummer when making hairpin turns on
    sidewalks.

    As for the waist pack: it fell off while I was standing in
    grass to get closer to the speaker. Stayed hooked for the
    rest of the trip, though. (Hey! I've got an excuse to buy
    a new bag!)

    And today, I realized that my jersey doesn't *look* like a
    jersey, and wore it to fetch festival food after hastily
    transferring stuff from my skirt pockets to my wallet and
    jersey pockets.

    By good luck I'd absent-mindedly put on black tights instead
    of silk long johns, so all I had to do was peel off shirt,
    skirt, and underdress and put on my jersey.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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