Weekend Wrap-up

[mdlbear]

Now, let's see. Where was I? Home, mostly: there were no trips, parties, or events planned for the weekend.

Managed to get in a fair amount of walking: about 4 miles yesterday, and 5 miles today. There's a nice trail along Los Gatos Creek that intersects Leigh about a block north of Hamilton. I usually walk up a little past the little park on Campbell Avenue; today I added the loop up to the new bridge just north of San Thomas/Camden. I used to do that every weekend, but slacked off considerably the last two years. Good to get back to it. Hopefully I'll lose a little weight.

Stopped off at REI yesterday and bought a computer sleeve for the new laptop -- they have a good one that opens on two sides, so you can position it vertically or horizontally, and has rings for attaching a shoulder strap. I had a Targus sleeve that was nice and thin and had a bigger accessory pocket, but didn't have a strap attachment. Didn't work out.

After noon yesterday the flower_cat asked to go for a drive, so of course we did. There's a nice 50-mile round trip down to Morgan Hill via Blossom Hill and Santa Theresa that's become one of our usual routes when we don't have time for the coast.

And today I scouted out the route to the chaoswolf's new job. I had originally thought I could save her about 1/2 hour on her commute by dropping her off at the point downtown where she would normally change busses. Turns out it's faster to take her all the way to work by freeway. She's on her own getting back, of course.

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[ravan.livejournal.com]

Turns out it's faster to take her all the way to work by freeway.

This can be especially true if the extra passenger allows you to use a carpool lane for a good distance...

[mdlbear]

As it turns out, it's clear sailing down the right lane taking her to work; the horrible traffic comes on the way back. But it's bad enough that if I could get into the carpool lane, I'd have trouble getting back to the right in time to hit my exit. Luckily I had plenty of time in that direction.