Misc.

Warm and sunny today, may attempt a bike ride.  Will see how much the assorted plagues have squashed my stamina.

In re: plagues, I will also have to haul a grocery list over to the store and restock our staples, as Wife would like to avoid anything like effort.

Chickadees seem to have found another nest they like better.  We've seen them around, but not acting like that hole in the rowan tree is "territory" any more.  They'll often try out several possible locations before settling on one.

Or maybe these aren't the same chickadees.  Wife refuses to get a banding license so that we can sort them out.

Am glad I got broadband, even slow broadband, simultaneous to acquiring this iMac.  Again with the large software updates -- 45 MB of QuickTime this morning.  I thought I was getting away from that constant OS patching when I dumped the Evil Empire...

You have to wonder

Where do they get those mailing lists?

This morning's snail-mail included the usual direct-to-bin stuff, some actual mail, and one oddball.  An ad for a computerized encyclopedia, with salutation to "Dear PC user."

Addressed to my mother.  Who died years ago, never lived at this address, and never used a computer in her life.

Ain't life in the future wunderful?

Tuesday roadkill report

One dead muskrat curled up on the shoulder of the road, don't he look natural?  Road shoulder in question looked more like woodchuck territory to _me_, highlands, grass, and forest, but maybe he'd left home looking for fun, travel, and adventure.  That rarely turns out well.

Temperature made it into the upper 70s F, sun, so I hopped on the bike and pedaled out into it.  And found more wind than was seemly.  I hadn't ridden for a couple of weeks, with the interlude of plague and bad weather and all, so we'll see how badly this kicks my ass.  I took my damned time about it, so maybe the payback won't be too severe.

Earlier, when I was out on the grocery run, had a mature bald eagle soar over the car at about 50' altitude, very clear view.  Compensation?

15.29 miles, 1:14:38