My timing is perfect

Rain was predicted for today. After my writing class, I hit Trader Joe's
for some tasty snacks to sustain me through several days of rain. It was
warm outside, like dog breath. High, lumpy clouds, didn't look like
rain, yet. I stowed the goodies (including 1 bottle of Two Buck Chuck
Cabernet Sauv) in the panniers, donned my Chicken Hawk riding gloves,
and headed home.

I hadn't even gone one block before the spigot opened! In the time I sat
at the signal on Washington waiting to get on the freeway, I was soaked
through; gloves, pants, longjohns. Two miles on South 163, it was like
riding into a monsoon! The rain was coming down slantwise out of the
south, and I could see the drops coming right at me. And then...boom! It
quit raining. Just like that! It didn't rain downtown, the streets were
nice and dry. Got home, towelled off the bike, put the cover on.
Tonight, of course, it's raining everywhere. But, I have wine and sushi,
cheese and salami, and don't need to go out until I run out of coffee.
That could take days.

My timing sucks.
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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC


"Every week, every month, every year, every decade and now
every century, Scientology does weird and stupid things
to damage its own reputation."
-Steve Zadarnowski

"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:
terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business
opportunity.

$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."
-Chris Leithiser

 

heh

I actually got to ride yesterday, the first time in two months. Then it
rained on me. Oh well.

anyway, stay safe and dry.

 

See? SEE?
Timing is everything!

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Barb "Hanging her socks over the radiator"
Chaplain, ARSCC


"Every week, every month, every year, every decade and now
every century, Scientology does weird and stupid things
to damage its own reputation."
-Steve Zadarnowski

"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:
terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business
opportunity.

$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."
-Chris Leithiser

 

You're right. I rode over to Coronado yesterday -- can't recall when
the weather was so perfect for riding. Timing was even good enough to
make the 5N - 163N transition with no competing traffic. [NB this merge
makes the Central Skyway look like an engineering miracle by comparison]

Enjoy your snacks!

Rich, Urban Biker

 

Mine, too.
I got up at the usual time, made coffee, flipped on the NOAA radar page,
saw a ban of yellow and orange stuff off the coast. I checked the wind
velocity, measured the time it would take to come ashore and guzzled the
coffee, speed read the Chron...
jumped into the 'stich, wheeled the Beem outta the garage just as the
first drops begain to fall.
I opted for the Hwy 35 route, declining to participate in themorning
race down 280 outta SF.
All was well until I got to Sharp Park and Skyline, then all hell broke
loose, visibility was under 100 feet, and rain was bouncing UP off the
road, so I was getting it from above and below.
Fortunately the full can treatment held till I slalomed through the
falling debris on Crystal Springs road.
I got to work alive and relatively dry.
Of course our entire VOIP was fragged thnks to an extended power outage
overnight, so I spent the day kickstarting phones that forgot what a
VLAN is, anbd sorting out various reboot issues on those square things
with all the lights on 'em.
The good news was that this was my last day......
of my present classification.
Tomorrow will cost my employer a hefty 11% more! So maybe I will shop
for a car/truck tomorrow after work.
Jim Stinnett
R1100RS
VTR1000
R1100RS

 

<snip>

Congratulations! Evidently you missed the tornado alert in effect for
much of the afternoon.

(strangely, I don't recall tornados around here when I was a kid)

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

Really! There was a tornado once when I lived up there in the late 80s,
it stirred some cars in a parking lot. Then I come back down here to SD
and a tornado rips the roof off a parking garage by the airport.

I don't remember that kind of behavior when I was a kid either! And last
year, I saw a ROLL CLOUD!!! Right over the Coronado Bridge! Looks like a
horizontal tornado, it does.

What the heck is goin' on??? Global Weirding?

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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

There was one spotted in Concord when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

 

*snort*

I blame Bush. We know who *you* blame.

 

LOL!

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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"