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[juldea]

Yesterday (Sunday) I spent most of the daytime wandering around Porter and Harvard squares with zapf, witticaster, and bleemoo. It was an all around good time. (Even the bad parts were good. Yes this makes sense.) One of the things we did was visit Tea Zone, which is only blocks from the Pie Hole. I got some strawberry black tea and some very berry herbal tea. I'm drinking a cup of the latter right now, and it's amazing. It's like tea fruit juice. I approve wholeheartedly.

I finally got my laundry done tonight. Dragon: slain.

It's a quarter to 1am, and I'm about to take out food from the oven. Sigh. However, this dish uses up about half of the farmshare veggies that were sitting in my fridge, which means I might actually have a chance of finishing all of the vegetables from last week before picking up this week's order! That would be yet another dragon slain.

Still need to find a Boston bike map.

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Boston bikemap

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Like buying a copy of Rubel's Boston's Bikemap ($6) or looking at the PDF map with color-coded streets at Boston Bikes?

Re: Boston bikemap

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I would prefer to not buy a copy of Rubel's when all I want to figure out is this one little piece of commute. And, sadly, it's a piece of commute that requires more resolution than the free PDF map goes to (also the PDF map's legend text encodes to non-letters for the most part, though admittedly not on the important part.)

Re: Boston bikemap

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Are the Rubel's sold not-shrinkwrapped or available at your local library?

I noticed that about the PDF too.

Re: Boston bikemap

[zigdon.livejournal.com]

Should be able to stop by a bike shop and look at it there, or even ask them for suggestions. I used to basically live in wheelworks in Belmont, and I think they have one in Somerville - Yup:

http://wheelworks.com/page.cfm?PageID=138

[captainecchi.livejournal.com]

I always find that getting stuff done makes me feel better about myself... which is tough, because usually the times when I most need to do that are the times when it's toughest to be productive.

Anyway, glad to hear you had a good time. Let me know if you need someone to hang out with this week.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

There were bike maps in Wheelworks, if you're up for purchasing.

Also, my favorite Tea Zone tea to make into iced tea (at least this week) is Minty Green. :)

Oh, also also -- have you tried changing the gears on the left-hand side? I noticed you recently commented that you were too tough even for the toughest of gearings. You might do more experimentation on the left side, or go back to Wheelworks and talk with an expert. :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try the minty green when I'm next in Tea Zone. Next to berry, mint teas are my favorites!

Regarding the left-hand gears, if you're asking if I've switched them ever, then yes. I determined which position corresponded with the various pressures of riding, and since then it's stayed in the lowest gear possible the entire time, because I never need to switch out of it. Haven't met a hill yet that requires me to switch left-hand gears.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Well, I think actually that might be part of your problem. I usually keep that gear in 2nd, but if that's not challenging enough for you, I think you should try 3rd. :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

But... what I'm saying is that I'm ALWAYS in the one that's the most challenging. Third, if that's what that terminology corresponds to. Seriously, I have tried every configuration of gears, and most of the time I ride around in the one that is most challenging, and I would like to have one a little more challenging if possible but it doesn't exist on this bike.