Turkeys everywhere
Monday, October 26th, 2009 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni...wild turkeys, that is. Milling around on lawns, driveways, and other locations from which they may not legally be shot. Luck or Intent? You decide.
I must say that I'm looking forward to the PT session on Thursday evening. 'nough said.
The rolling bag's first day of use encountered some minor problems; nothing that couldn't be noodled out. I do not work on the most accessible college campus ever; the Quad is terraced, so lots of outside stairs and not so much with the ramps. My usual route to work encompasses one short stairway (excluding the three flights once you're actually inside the library), and my goal today was to identify a route where there were no outside stairs between the Roberts parking lot and the library.
In fact, I was not able to identify a completely stair-free route from Roberts to the library. However, I did find a route that did not require portage, to wit:
Leave the Roberts lot, walk up the Bixler mini-park under the trees, just like always. At the top of the mini-park, do not turn right, as usual, but continue sort-of straight ahead, proceeding through the hole in the math building to the stairs beyond, pulling the rolling bag up the ramp beside the stairs. That done, walk to the opposite side of the Quad, turn left, use the ramp to go around Lovejoy to the service road, turn right onto the walkway, bearing right to go up the ramp, and viola! you are on the ground floor of the library. From here, one may decide to fold the handle and carry the bag up three steep flights, or to invade the stacks and take the elevator. I opted for the elevator.
Alternatively, I guess I could walk across the bottom of Sorority Row to the pond road, then just pull my little blue wagon behind me up the road. May try that tomorrow.
Must also investigate the ins and outs of the math building before it gets Really Cold. The walk cross-quad is nice now, but I'm thinking that won't be the case when we've got a windchill of 20 below.
In other news and for those keeping score at home, "Hidden Resources" has been completed, with a Final Draft Weight of 8,730. This is somewhat above the target word count of 7,000, but the editor says no worries.
Still to-do: The forward for The Dragon Variation, a possible short story for an anthology that starts reading in January, oh, and Ghost Ship. The backbrain has busily been offering up tidbits of Ghost Ship this last while, which is nice, if not chronological. Backbrains are hardly ever chronological.
Tonight, I have me some databasin' to do, and the ever-popular dishes to wash. Then, I intend to retire to the couch and Rest My Arm(tm). Perhaps I shall view a film.
I must say that I'm looking forward to the PT session on Thursday evening. 'nough said.
The rolling bag's first day of use encountered some minor problems; nothing that couldn't be noodled out. I do not work on the most accessible college campus ever; the Quad is terraced, so lots of outside stairs and not so much with the ramps. My usual route to work encompasses one short stairway (excluding the three flights once you're actually inside the library), and my goal today was to identify a route where there were no outside stairs between the Roberts parking lot and the library.
In fact, I was not able to identify a completely stair-free route from Roberts to the library. However, I did find a route that did not require portage, to wit:
Leave the Roberts lot, walk up the Bixler mini-park under the trees, just like always. At the top of the mini-park, do not turn right, as usual, but continue sort-of straight ahead, proceeding through the hole in the math building to the stairs beyond, pulling the rolling bag up the ramp beside the stairs. That done, walk to the opposite side of the Quad, turn left, use the ramp to go around Lovejoy to the service road, turn right onto the walkway, bearing right to go up the ramp, and viola! you are on the ground floor of the library. From here, one may decide to fold the handle and carry the bag up three steep flights, or to invade the stacks and take the elevator. I opted for the elevator.
Alternatively, I guess I could walk across the bottom of Sorority Row to the pond road, then just pull my little blue wagon behind me up the road. May try that tomorrow.
Must also investigate the ins and outs of the math building before it gets Really Cold. The walk cross-quad is nice now, but I'm thinking that won't be the case when we've got a windchill of 20 below.
In other news and for those keeping score at home, "Hidden Resources" has been completed, with a Final Draft Weight of 8,730. This is somewhat above the target word count of 7,000, but the editor says no worries.
Still to-do: The forward for The Dragon Variation, a possible short story for an anthology that starts reading in January, oh, and Ghost Ship. The backbrain has busily been offering up tidbits of Ghost Ship this last while, which is nice, if not chronological. Backbrains are hardly ever chronological.
Tonight, I have me some databasin' to do, and the ever-popular dishes to wash. Then, I intend to retire to the couch and Rest My Arm(tm). Perhaps I shall view a film.
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Date: 2009-10-26 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 05:07 pm (UTC)(I'll get me coat...)
Inaccessible places and tough loads
Date: 2009-10-31 06:49 pm (UTC)Do check the length of the handle on your rolling case with your PT -- I discovered that a short leash added to mine made my unhealed rotator cuff injury much more bearable in airports. It was just a difference of a very few inches, but a great change in comfort.
We might as well face it, the world is designed for perfect physical specimens of ideal size. The webbing in piloting seats has always made me smile in sympathy for those of Liaden length -- I'm tall, but fail to fit expectations in other ways, and flying vehicles are amazingly uncomfortable.
Re: Inaccessible places and tough loads
Date: 2009-11-01 11:10 pm (UTC)In all, I think I'd rather walk.
Thank you for the tip about the handle! I have PT tomorrow, as it happens, so will run the case past Matt.