Long Day/Week
Jul. 20th, 2008 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatLong day. Got up, fought with Marge, ate guatamalien insanity peppers. Wait, that's not my life... :-)
Got up, pottered with Deb, went to the post office to pick up a package (panniers bought on Ebay! Reminds me, must go leave feedback.... done) Did some work from home on a virtual machine, nice. Then I hopped on my bike and rode to my office. I probably looked a sight. My bike is black, my helmet is black, my jacket is black, my new panniers are black, and I was wearing my sun glasses.
Popped in to the noodle place near my office and had a prawn dumpling soup noodle - yum! Then I ducked into my office for... Well, I was there from 2.30 till after 7. One of them projects which is going pear shaped, as IT projects tend to to do, damn it.
Then I met up with Geoffrey the Mad Cyclist. There was a bike pub crawl on, which happened to start in South Melbourne, near where I was. I caught up with Geoff and some other late comers, and chased the bike crawl to the Great Britain in Richmond. From there we went to the All Nations on Lennox Street in Richmond. There as a bunch of kids hanging out the front, several of them on BMX's, who were very impressed with us. Had dinner - note to self, the "entrée" size really is quite tiny. Then we set off for a bar called Kent Street on Smith Street (go figure), then from there to the Napier. The Napier more-or-less chucked us out because someone parked their bike in a tree, and someone else on a light pole on the town hall!
Then we headed off to a pub called the Curry Family Pub (or some such) which just happened to be on the corner of Easey Street and Wellington in Collingwood - in other words, right on my way home via my favourite bike route. So I took my leave and headed home.
I really must get a bike computer, so I can work out how far I've actually gone... Also did that thing of getting all excited about panniers and then loading them with too much stuff :-)
Got up, pottered with Deb, went to the post office to pick up a package (panniers bought on Ebay! Reminds me, must go leave feedback.... done) Did some work from home on a virtual machine, nice. Then I hopped on my bike and rode to my office. I probably looked a sight. My bike is black, my helmet is black, my jacket is black, my new panniers are black, and I was wearing my sun glasses.
Popped in to the noodle place near my office and had a prawn dumpling soup noodle - yum! Then I ducked into my office for... Well, I was there from 2.30 till after 7. One of them projects which is going pear shaped, as IT projects tend to to do, damn it.
Then I met up with Geoffrey the Mad Cyclist. There was a bike pub crawl on, which happened to start in South Melbourne, near where I was. I caught up with Geoff and some other late comers, and chased the bike crawl to the Great Britain in Richmond. From there we went to the All Nations on Lennox Street in Richmond. There as a bunch of kids hanging out the front, several of them on BMX's, who were very impressed with us. Had dinner - note to self, the "entrée" size really is quite tiny. Then we set off for a bar called Kent Street on Smith Street (go figure), then from there to the Napier. The Napier more-or-less chucked us out because someone parked their bike in a tree, and someone else on a light pole on the town hall!
Then we headed off to a pub called the Curry Family Pub (or some such) which just happened to be on the corner of Easey Street and Wellington in Collingwood - in other words, right on my way home via my favourite bike route. So I took my leave and headed home.
I really must get a bike computer, so I can work out how far I've actually gone... Also did that thing of getting all excited about panniers and then loading them with too much stuff :-)