bike log

[da]

On this beauuuuttiful day, we took roverthedog for a longish walk, I did a bit of yard work, did some more decluttering in my study, read most of two issues of The Atlantic, and went for a 16km bike ride. My odometer rolled over 1,000km again, which I missed because I was paying attention to traffic after one of the new roundabouts. It rolled over at the site where they're turning farmland into a WalMart and movie-theater. ...As opposed to 5km up the road, where they're turning farmland into rental housing, or a few km in the other direction where they already turned farmland into a large plaza where they had the genius idea of a roundabout immediately followed by a stoplight. Yeah.

So, it would be another 1,000km, only my odometer is lying, or roverthedog is taking it out for joyrides, because my records from last fall said I stopped biking at 800km, and when I started riding 17 days ago it said 858. Then this Wednesday it said 980. The intervals when I'm actually on the bike, so it's jumping in the night.

Oh! I bet it's the house poltergeist. That makes more sense now, since the clock is mostly working these days.

Anyhow, I can guess I've gone something like 120km since I started riding this season. Feels good to be back on the bike.

Just, no way in hell I biked 200km in 17 days.

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

You got my freewheeling demiurges!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

*opens mouth to say something, pauses, then closes mouth again.*

I hope the spirits stay out of that part of my bike, as it made for dangerous conditions, but otherwise they're welcome to be as freewheeling as they like.

...Do you have stories of your freewheeling demiurges? I don't think I've seen 'em.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Periodically bicycles get left on or near my property. Last month, someone abandoned a BMX bike just outside the bounds of my property: this time with a bicycle pump. It was there for more than three weeks... definitely there earlier this week... but I checked before writing. It is now gone.

I've had other electrical crap going on in my house---light bulbs burning out frequently, and radios turning on without my memory of doing so---and am often plagued with nightmares of teens coming in wreaking havoc. I think of these phenomena of 'freewheeling demiurges' a kind of youthful and mischievous energy that comes when things are stuck. I'm not a big believer in paranormal activity, but this phrase makes me laugh and describes almost exactly the way these things make me feel: mystified and curmudgeonly.

I thought I had posted about the latest round this month... but perhaps I've only told people about it.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just tried out the new search box at the top of the LJ page, and sho 'nuff, it found me the thread in your J.

We have little experience with paranormal activity *outside* the house.

Yet.

Only skunks, solicitors, and other easily identifiable nuisances.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Here is the post about it earlier this month: scroll to the very bottom... http://zalena.livejournal.com/1021373.html