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...
Something about the 311, 411, 911 and other
11 numbers has people up in arms...
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...
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
Noticed VeRiTasSlaveryCon2017 videos
coming out about then, and started watching them...
Took hours, and watched 5 later, which was
less token, more 50%...
Nothing really special about it, but snow plows,
etc and back to regular schedule, until Friday...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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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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