Someone's been slacking ...
How lame that it's been almost a week since our last post! I'd like to make up for it now with some meaty prose, but fact is, I'm beat. My mom and nephew arrived in town late Saturday night, and we got up early this morning to ride in the Providence Bridge Pedal. After the ride we feasted on the waterfront at The Bite of Oregon and wound up the day reveling with our neighbors at our second annual (kick-ass) block party.So, in lieu of a substantial post, here's a quick update on my mileage test after one week:
I've driven the car a total of 43 miles, which included one afore-mentioned round trip to Bed, Bath & Beyond and one round trip to the airport to pick up the afore-mentioned mentioned mother and nephew.
I've ridden my bike a total of 81 miles, which included trips to and and from work, The Boy's school, the community pool, the farmers market and 20 miles for the Bridge Pedal.
(To answer your question Phil, I'm just counting the total miles, though miles per passenger would be interesting, since I rode with The Boy on the back of my bike for more than half of those miles, and had my mom and nephew in the car for about a third of the driving miles. Maybe I should count double every mile I bike with a passenger, and double every mile I drive alone, in which case my biking miles would be about 120 and driving would be 71. Either way - if my math is right - it looks like I'm biking almost twice as much as I'm driving, which isn't bad. It's late though, so I can't be too sure of my math. Or my spelling. or grammer)
In any case, for your viewing pleasure, here is a picture I took during the Bridge Pedal:
And here is a picture The Boy took during the Bridge Pedal:
posted by judybat at 10:43 PM
3 Comments:
She's being very kind and not pointing out that it's been my turn to post for more than a week. But things have been a little busy. Plus, I've suddenly become incapable of staying up past 10 p.m. Perhaps it's that large mass TheBoy is holding.
Amazing. TheBoy's use of the contrasting light/dark metaphor is an obvious attempt to use metonymy to link being with history. By mimicking our culture's metolic mode of chemo-mechanical maturation paradigms, he clearly aims to establish that organized inorganic beings are originarily constitutive in the strict phenomenological sense. Furthermore, the temporal spaciality of the "concrete" (in both senses of the word) reminds us that time and space are the true derivative decompositions of speed.
Just a thought.
An additional block party note: We had two fire trucks. Two. An engine and a ladder. Wicked cool.
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