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AnUnEventfulWeekend2017

Page history last edited by jerry 7 years ago

AnUnEventfulWeekend2017

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Several events, mostly to entirely missed,

so some reasons why...

 

 

Body

 

BackDrop

 

Several things before the weekend, making for a lag time,

bordering on situational depression, going towards

reactionary...

 

11th

 

Something about the 311, 411, 911 and other

11 numbers has people up in arms...


13th

 

Possibly a MS13th and Latin Kings, etc gang type

day, but also a Harvard Application deadline, iirc...

Superstitiousness (sp?) is a vice, and potential flaw,

so why celebrate it?

 

Snow storm happened that night, giving a snow

day to many, and cleanup jobs to others,

by Thursday, the trails were not plowed,

and finding the Arlington Government/Board

is backing off of that, trying to cut costs,

while abandoning bikers, somewhat...

Call to protest the cuts, is underway

with some more public people...

Possibly cut what they think will

be protested as a way of garnering

support, and political favors?

Standard politics as usual, afaict...

 

 

PiDay2017

 

The 14th, as in 3.14159....

Raspberry Pi Zero W is out, with WiFi,

and maybe BlueTooth? (Smart/LE?)

but not sure what else is up in that arena

this anniversary year, plus more accessories, etc...

 

Had I made the NoVA.MakerFaire.com maybe

I would have overheard...

 

Or do my own research, maybe, if I have time...

My one Pi3 gets some use, but dreadfully slow

even for a web browser... As in wait a minute

or more for it to start up and other page refresh

taking so long I'm losing interest / train of thought

on things, if it even comes back,

like Inbox.Google.com bundles, archiving, etc...

 

OctoCore Pi might be in the works, but not

released yet...  /WishFulThinking

 

IdesOfMarch2017

 

Noticed VeRiTasSlaveryCon2017  videos

coming out about then, and started watching them...

Took hours, and watched 5 later, which was

less token, more 50%...

 

16th

 

Nothing really special about it, but snow plows,

etc and back to regular schedule, until Friday...

 

StPatricksDay2017

 

Friday, the 17th, this year, and lots of green beer,

(and other stuff that I don't do) and other food

colouring all over cakes, etc ...

 

Remembering PatrickSnow and PatrickAsSaint

puts a little damper on personal history for me,

and likely others, but also acknowledging a life,

probably well lived...

 

Laundry

 

Laundry slipped from Thursday, to Friday to

Saturday, making me miss other things,

with depression, procrastination, fearing

the reactions from various part of the biking

community, and personal commitments of not

going back, after I had left, having words,

with a cofounder, etc...

 

 

BikeBikeSouthEast2017

 

After suggesting something like this, in

BikeBikeHosting2015 and then not feeling a

part of, events I could be under the mood,

and not taking part, and that is part of what

happened...

 

Bike!Bike! SouthEast came to town at

DownGradingVeloCityCoop2010

VeloCityBikeCoop hosted most of the event,

finding after, when I was given a paper schedule

on site, it mostly happened on Friday,

for the presentations/workshops part,

some on open source software, and

some other stuff, by the time I was rolling out

on Saturday, after laundry, they were into a DC ride

with another Jerry, from Velocity, and went to

GearinUp2017 for what seemed to be lunch,

drinking, and waiting on the AlleyCat

race to finish, and then eating dinner and partying... 

I biked over, declining an SUV ride I had asked for

after they were loading up beers, etc for the partying,

and citing a possible bug problem ala PeskyPrep2016 ...

 

While finding my way back to  and from GearinUp,

I went elsewhere, passing the holiday fundraiser

party site two Xmases back, DewDropInn

near the railroad tracks, and remembering

some of the history:

StartABikeClinicAtFarmersMarketThenCatchBikeHouse

TheBikeHouse and TheBikeHouseCoop2015

plus maybe something specific on the fundraiser(s)

and mostly BikersAndDrunks2015 with some

trail dangers, maybe getting some DC Pot smoke,

second hand smoke/ attacked by Vapes, etc and

other problems, getting old and fat,

and late on rental return, so costing me $1.50,

probably biking problems checking out like

CaBisCrap2017

instead of ComputingAcrossAmericaBook

and other more fun biking stuff...

Like IsBikingStillFun2016 ?

 

Interestingly, saw a lady crossing the street

with a dinosaur t shirt, and mentioned

the MipoSaur, which she has/likes...

So buying Batteries2017 alkaline

now Not on sale, attacked at ToysRUs

by someone claiming to be a manager,

the last time, when on sale,

and got some others (AAA and Coder MiP)

elsewhere, the 100+ AAA, and no AA,

finally got some AA, and tried the MipoSaur... 

Then if tell, possibly heat and Bags2016

with too much air, plus vibration of the

dishwasher, breaking/ cropping it's tail...

 

I had wondered if it would come off

for travel, and it does, but not sure

it goes back on...  It runs without it,

no wires back there, but the switch

is in a outflow/ rectum type location,

the battery pack does not fit from Coder

MiP to MipoSaur, but might be hacked

and looked at hacking the extra

rechargeable REV car and likely

REV Air car battery packs

that haven't worked some $40 dollars

into that, not working

from TargettedWowWeeAccessories2017

and trying that again, bad batch, shelf

life, and/or something...

 

CherryUnBlossoms2017

 

Nothing much to see, lots of slow

tourists, going to town, but no / not much

blossoms/ pedals, as the snow on the

13th evening (not called Matthew, as

previously written in MobileMashDentistry2017

but some other  winter storm

name?) snow and ice may have gotten them...

 

At one point, on good years, it was like

a snowfall of pedals, some valentines

and other romantics probably do rose

pedals, and now wondering if I'm

supposed to be using petals (flowers)

instead of pedals (biking context)...

 

MissedNoVAMakerFaire2017

 

After previous years

SubUrbanMade2015

 

upgraded to a full MakerFAire

from a Mini

NoVA.MakerFaire.com

this year, it was snowing/icing

(snicing?) Sunday

early am, ending around 9.15, and a

Phoenix group scheduled to go out by

bicycle to booth making upcycling (sp?)

bike parts into belts, maybe clocks?, etc,

but I had wandered DC Saturday

and tired, worried about patches of ice

and falling at my advanced age,

could not pay to get in,

and checking online it was

$50 Supporter level

or $40 family of 5 only,

by the night before, and Make Media owned

your image, type issues, amongst (sp?)

others, but the BlackSmithing demonstration

sounded interesting, they featured a Forged

by Fire blade making show guy

so  considered trying to see some

of that outside, but not paying,

which would have been Wrong,

but might have done it... Mostly

you have to be out there most of the

time to participate fully, afaict...

 

The commute could be a killer,

as some have died (news reports of

biker/ pedestrian deaths near Reston Rail),

and I'm currently limiting risks,

but running late, so later, for now...

 

VASARide2017

 

Missed that too, conflicted with

NoVA.MakerFaire.com and the

weather, not sure it happened,

not sure it didn't, awaiting others

reports.  Volunteering as a WABA Ride

Marshall might have been a possibility,

racking up volunteer credits towards

membership and free entry, but

facing injuries likely too... 

 

Real Swedes might not have had a

problem, but local MidAtlantic people

generally don't know how to drive in

snow/ice and the infrastructure

isn't the Vision Zero that feds are

pushing, and  my last

BikersAndDrunks2015

meeting failed to acknowledge

my suggestion of looking into Vision Zero,

and went on attacking, deflecting and ignoring

again, as different rules, kind of like

VeRiTasSlaveryCon2017

for some South Arlington bikers...

 

 

Consolations

 

Found blueberry soda along the way,

instead of blueberry soup at the

House of Sweden (embassy) with VASA,

(but no Girl Scout cookies discovered while

lost marshalling along East Capital

nor )

and trying the MipoSaur that week,

plus some shorts and pants donated my way,

and just surviving it, relatively unscathed

but still hurting somewhat, not what

I had hoped would happen, but realistically

I'm not that well liked, and not missed

by many...  Other ridicule and ostracize

and well, sometimes better to be away

from that all...  It takes too much energy

to fight the stigma and hate, especially

around tax time(s) and upcoming

Columbine / VATech shooting anniversary, etc...

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

None, just bad feelings, I'm sharing

in case anyone cares, instead of

another way to bash the poor,

and unliked...

 

Poor me, not really, just down,

hopefully it gets better...

Likely by myself, and away from others,

when that is possible...

 

Continue the retreat into technology,

even though spring is here, or thereabouts

there are still some carryover/ throwbacks

to deal with...

 

Maybe it's more like flashbacks?

and PTSD, but too many labels to start with...

 

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

How does a Safe Space (Bike!Bike! inclusivity (sp??)

do that retroactively?

Do like the Reparations?

 

What volunteering safety protocols are there

for dealing with kids?  NCIC check all volunteers?

at $10-35 per person per volunteer non profit agency

that used to take a year to process, but is likely

been sped up some?

And they are not transferable between tasks/orgs...

 

MuscovyDuck2016

seems OK, for now but is invasive another

way of saying a flock of Canadian geese are OK

to take over the Shirlington field, but only one

I've seen  from the south is not OK,

and other discrimination?

 

So a Parrot Head from SpringBreak2013

Key West and would not be welcome?

 

Or like how I ended up seeing Alligators

and half wolf dog mixes /hybrids and

how Northern Woods Law or similar

marathon watching game wardens dealt

with that and smelt / eel worth thousands

per bucket and keeping the natural

resources for current and future generations,

by not poaching, breaking limits,

getting proper fishing and hybrid,

exhibitors, etc permits and licenses,

etc...

 

License

 

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Page History

 

20170320 Jerry

  • Jerry created this page to be annoying as usual?
  • or just be Real?...
  • Chop this up into separate pages,
  • based on subsection headers
  • now links too, for easier to find
  • yearly events missed later on,
  • and this is the Drudge aggregated part summarizing
  • /InSideJoke...
  • etc

 

 

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