I walked out of the house late this morning, again. Maybe I’d care if the client cared but I work with a fairly laid back group. People come in early, leave and return, work late, whatever we need to do. Basically we do what is needed to meet our release targets.
On the KTM, it’s 42 and damp. My legs are chilled from the wind blast. Vest and grips are keeping my core temperature up in a healthy range. 70 seems to be the contentious as I cruise at 62 with the pack pulling away from me.
The forecast is unbelievable. 4 days of dry weather are on the forecast. They have to be wrong. I know they are wrong. It’s raining on the other side of town right now! LOL I wonder what the weekend will bring. Will I escape to the hills or linger in the city?
I couldn’t sleep last night. I worked in the garage until after 23:30, then spent time installing new parts on the master bathroom shower. It was after 00:30 when I finally crawled into bed. Then I couldn’t sleep. I read for a while, which didn’t help. I learned about the “Query Pattern” and that got me thinking about some development I’ve been working on for the last couple weeks. I laid in bed ‘thinking’ until about 02 when I got up to play Peggle until 03:30. Read more…
It’s raining… again.
The temps are starting to climb. Spring is on the way. It was 50 degrees on my way home from the Yamaha dealership a few minutes ago. It rained really hard on me when I was driving home from work. Just now I got home with only a few sprinkles.
That is one of the quirks to Oregon that I have not gotten used to. It can be raining AND sunny. It can be pouring in one place and perfectly dry jsut a few miles away. We’ve got the Gorge, the Coastal and Cascade Ranges, and the Willamette and Columbia rivers. So there are a lot of different inputs on the local micro climates. Back in misery, I mean Missouri, the weather was regional. It was hot (or cold) for hundreds of miles. Rain would cover a 4 state area. Snow from Canada down to Tulsa. Tornado bearing storms would cut through hundreds of miles of open plain without minimal damage. Different place.
It will be a while before the mountain snow melts and then the real fun begins. This summer I am going to spend some time in those mountains buring fuel.
Still, it is strange only having one bike. I sold my DL last summer which dropped me down to one moto. I’m still thinking about the SuperDuke. Thinking, thinking, thinking…
