These tourists, on their way to see the library, I presume, are breaking two of my cardinal rules for not being marked from blocks away:

1. Don’t wear bright colours.

2. Don’t dress up in the same thing as your travelling partner.

Wet rims take longer to stop

For some reason, my old mountain bike had this terribly quaint warning sticker on the down-tube where you can’t see it while you’re riding. I’ve always wondered two things about that:

1. Of all the things that can cause trouble while you’re riding a bike, how did their committee of lawyers choose that, and only that, hazard?

2. Why did they warn me with a sticker I can’t see when I’m riding?

So, further to my reports of life without out a cell phone (here & here), I got myself a phone with Wind at the end of June. Despite many reports on forums of narrow home-calling areas and many drop-outs, I’m finding it works just swell. Except: the home zone doesn’t extend into my office! The phone goes into Away zone whenever it sits on my desk. I gots to say, that’s very annoying. It’s in home zone for much of the rest of the library. It even stays in home zone if I hang it from a hook on the wall of my office (seriously!). But I keep forgetting it when I do that.  Luckily, my N810 connects to my voip account in my office so I’m still reachable. And the new cell forwards to the old voip but I haven’t quite worked out the best call-forwarding settings yet so, the cell phone saga continues.