FirstFrost2015

Introduction/Definition/etc

Timestamping the first frost weekend, mid October, remembering and reviewing some stuff, perhaps, will see what the drivel does...

Body

So early morning waking following a ride to TBH @ Bloomingdale Farmers Market yesterday, getting FrankenShifting Gary Fisher Beater Bike back on the road...

Run dishwasher, and other little housekeeping, take recycling out, trash out, and get a little Sunday recreation riding in, while working on a project bike, changed chain, to new one bought weeks ago, but not messing with shifting, just get it to the clinic, which didn't have a host, the regular wanted some time off, so a time pressure, and the limp there mode not working well, preflight a little shady, Air Brake Chain/Cables is the ABCs for kids, shared bikes, inactivity, and other problems, Air held, brakes were about usual, but not been on the graduation bike from 1998 much since shifting over, making the show bike, a folding, bought with the end of my disability lump sum years ago, used with Amtrak and HippieClownCamp2011 , MindingAndMiningYourTeeth2012  and other special occasions, the folding feature nice, but needs skate/ luggage wheels on the bar ends to haul around, not as convenient a folder as say a Brompton, Bike Friday, and some of those, folding quicker, and having a carrying method built in, not just up into a car, taxi, etc, not fitting on a regular transit bus rack, like PedalCarts2015  , even wondering if they can be put on rail, the width getting thru a turnstyle, put sideways, OK for some elevators,  not a regular bike, recumbents do what in rail?  Much less Segways, and odd wheelchairs?  Meets the width of ADA, but anything short of that might be a problem...

Rushing thru to DC, ignoring kids and questioning as leaving, have to get going, and took much longer, kept making noise, stop and connect the cable to the rear derailler, but not wanting to twist the new cable in the ends, loose wires, and GripShift type secret to redoing cable, so changing out manufacturers, to SRAM, similar, but different, the grip to the missing bar end, not all the way on, a master mechanic used an air hose, compressor and a sports ball needle to inflate the grip, getting on that way, but don't have a compressor handy, a messy one at a gas station might be an option, will see..  Remember to take the bar end, missing on one side, been sitting on the bathroom sink area for months...

Cold out there, warned by some one taking laundry out, and he had full pants and a jacket, iirc, but I know better, exercising creates heat, and excess is sweating, which I was already doing with southern exposure and bending and stretching trying to get packed, repacked actually changing bikes and current stuff on those bags, what all do I need, "remember that day in school when they taught you to pack light, must have been a morning class, and I missed it, probably got detention for it..."  Nah, might have been Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, a brief experience, before the move and divorce...  Merit badges for packing, I think not...

Past the Pentagon, wearing a camera, WearableCameras2015 , No Photography signs prominent, and adhering to it, trying to stop at all stops, but pedalling being a problem, grinding much of the time, push to hard on the pedals, and it makes noise and shifts itself...  More to do...

Going over the bridge,  blasts of wind, into monuments area, missing man was missed, trying to watch traffic, new underpass at Washington Blvd, one of the worst intersections when going onto the i395, but not doing that on a bike, well, officially, cheated and went up a ramp, and skipped a lot of loop around in the park to avoid the delays, done it before, better, if could shift and do the little trail around and under, but hills, and hurry, walk and watch high speed ramps, high curbs and lawbreaking problems, don't be stupid about it...  Snowmageddon is one thing, but day to day, get caught type problems...

Police around the monuments, Jefferson on the south side of the tidal basin, paddle boats, too cold, none seen, but didn't look not a summer time, but pink walkers out, might have been a storm delay event, not checking events as much, missed a substance abuse concert, the other week, tried PedalCarts2015  for what ended up to be 22 miles,  part of the Arlington Loop, skipping much trail, going to Crystal City, missed 4 Mile Run Farmers Market, too early, setup by a produce vendor, and kept going, trying hills, and out for break, PhoenixBikes doing a ride that day, well a fun ride benefitting PhoenixBikes , requiring registration, pay perhaps, low on funds, and registration usually releases photos images, etc, so don't just do something On My Own, create your own adventure, AdvMotoRally2015  like, but pedalling, and getting exercise for mood and seasons change, BikeNotMed like ...

Up around the Capital, two police cars there on the hill, blow the light in front of them?  Off the bike and walk, a water problem, wondered about pipe broken, but sprinklers it seemed...  Up the hill, walking, not putting too much force on the pedals, needed to take the bike to work on it with others, some might have had ideas, should have spent more time at home, a few minutes here, save time going there...

And into Union Station like area, have bought http://StreetSense.org  copies from a vendor, but not having much cash, already Waiting on the Eighth as WaPo put it, in an article (find link?)....

Past the rows of stuff along the green bike lanes, rows of homeless people's stuff, maybe some sleeping too, didn't record, and tried not to pry, wondering what the Frost Warning is doing to people these days, worried about loosing people, comparing my life now, after spending what my father left me, IWannaBeATrustFundBratWhenIGrowUp  run out, and not done Master's Degree as I had talked to Dad about, WeldingBasics2013  at community college as close as I got, and some trips, SpringBreak2013 , Sturgis2013 , but mostly storage, smart phone, and other things like TrackDays2012  and gear, costing in replacing parts when it went down, attacked, and/or just WE Are the Bumpers...

So comparing self, my internals  (emotional state, appearances, possesions, worn) to others outsides, baggy, homeless, outside, and trying to survive, remembering I'd been in shelters in Virginia and went back to write and help, now can't really get involved, trying to distance, too much of a target, not eight (8) years previous,  wehn elections times, Obama on the Ballot, the first time, myself "partially inspired" or whatever wording I used and got published...

What candidates do we have currently?

Mrs. Clinton?

Female president?

Dem

Trump?

Trump Towers, can't seem to keep that separate from World Trade Center towers falling, in my non NYC mind...

being an ass on TV, Shark Tank aside...

J.E.B Bush?

Republican

not Bush, the Third, please...

Cooking rice in a cooker, alarms going off, and remind me, carbo load, but really just using up a some donated pasta sauce I opened and worried people getting into, the threats, thru walls, etc, harassment, of a token in my neighborhood, getting thin, Wilson shootings, wearing what looks like police shorts, buttons, wear bike shorts underneath, different pockets, small left one getting into, but keys not falling out of, two cargo type pockets, tactical, not police, but similar, 30% off, saving a little, not realizing buttons, 3XL or whatever size, loading pockets makes things seem tighter, really down towards knees, but got to switch off of Moto for a while and had those clothes clean and ready to go...  TBH second jersey collected and wore that, not usually to wear the one I'm going to, but have a couple, First World Problems, seeing India or somewhere, flooding, Strange Weather on cable Weather Station, clay and past desert, getting yearly rainfall in 3 days or so, showing houses, cars, trucks floating downstream, and learning a little, mother nature can be a b****....   Not all flowers and sunshine...

Life's Been Good to Me, Joe Walsh, back in the day, singing of excess, Money for Nothing, Dire Straights, and other Hollywood type RIAA, now probably YouTube classics, since can't do MTV and VH1 would spend too much time on the Boob Tube, zoning out, and getting no where, similar, but different than the pot type commericals, PSAs, where has your life gone?

But this is depressing, and the rice cooker turned off, so can eat, missed meals, donated Greek type Yogurt, four pints from the warehouse, last Monday was Columbus Day, seeing 1492:  Paradise type movie, a big budget show how it was, a reenactment, fictionalized account, more personality, show a Dreamer with Signorney Weaver as a Spanish Queen, impertinence tolerated, while tired of Yes Men, or whatever the Spanish term for it was...

I can't even do the 1-10 in Spanish despite about 5 years in the barrio, French my choice in early High School, still remember most of that, doesn't do a lot of good around here...

But I like Crepes, so all is well ;-/

Catacombs, the show about the underground in Paris, mining limestone, and creating say 200 miles of

tunnels, where they put the bodies, and stacked up bones, the under the cities type shows of secrets of the Underground or similar, I've found H2, History Channel, as an escape...

Remembering the death on the cross, Crucifixion, in Roman times, rebranding that to a Resurrection, the oppressors, war type shows of Roman brutality, medical like research on how that kills, nails reused, and blood and types of crosses, T and t with a head space, tied, not staked, but I digress...

Conclusion

Summary of experience or similar

Nothing much, just free writing with too bad typing, even at a bigger font, will see when editing, if it turns into anything...

Discussion

A place for feedback on the page presented

How do you distance yourself from the homeless, living on the streets, on the first frost days?

Having been homeless, and now not?

Give it up?

Die myself, liek Halloween, Ghosts and Goblins, turn into Pumpkin myself?

Time's up?

Like the elections coming up, change the clock, find a costume, and All Day of the Dead?

Wrapped up into one tradition, or many for getting over the seasons' change?

A few weeks of good weather, now probably past,  bugs die, in the cold, trying to be swept out of the garages, seeking shelter, but not a creepy crawly here, just the usual...  Gotten gated community, but Swiss Cheese like security...

21dot30RetalitoryEviction2015 still looming, nothing really happening, clean up some, buy shelves, move stuff form windows, still a lot of stuff, storage costs killing me despite combining two 5x5 into a 8x10 and $60 dollars less per month, a move it before AdvMotoRally2015 event weekend, something to look forward too, post problems, but besides the $200 gift card in the raffle, what I'm calling my Santa Pants, but can't give anything away, need to find rainbow suspenders, seen them, but not gotten, have to stretch out spending, falling off the personal fiscal cliff, following what my dad left me being used up...

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Page History

20151019 Jerry

• Jerry created this page to note the first Frost in the DC Metro Area, timeframe, whine a little in free writing type mode, and some other stuff came up, documenting the state of my personal onion, as it where...
• all First World Problems, compared to Homelessness, Floods, Crucifixion, etc
• and upcoming Day of the Dead
• remembering RaceToTheDeath2010 alley cat race, timeframe...
• spell check many typos, free writing doesn't stop to correct, stuff, but I can't help it, self publishing this and all...

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