Hello everybody!

I ran 10 miles then went out for dinner with Debbie.

Okay—that’s all I got.  See ya!

Joe - are you doin' the two states' bridge every day?  I'm surprised there wasn't a commemorative 5K or something as they do out here for new bridges, etc.  One of my MM friends did his 400th across the Chesapeake, I think.

(I had deleted all that junk before I saw your post so no one who comes late to the thread will know what is being discussed.)

dave - whew.  thanks.

I did go back to look but

was okay with not finding

It as it sounded kind of heavy

for all my parallel parking

stress yesterday, today

continuing into tomorrow.

ps - parking stress caused me to miss

all the R'house fallout too. whew.

Bio - lucky. have fun.

I hope we'll be following

your progress all day tomorrow.

Did anyone see the lunar eclipse last night?  I was up at 1:00 and 3:00 and caught the full and partials.  And then when I went to the Y at 5:15 that big old moon was full and shining in all of it's glory!  What a spectacular sight 

 

Jlynne - since it wasn't mentioned in the local media out here until it happened, for me  it's just another one of those events that I'd've been aware of in newspaper perusal days coming across news and notices I didn't know about that now, in the internet age, you have to know know about it first and then go look for it.

roch - yep,I erika is in a class all her own, . . . along with Tammy's Mt. Ashland and Leslie's Lady Bird.

BTY - great for GN to have something to challenge and focus on.

Boy it was really tempting to get on my bike at lunchtime, with the temperature in the low 60's, sunshine, not much wind and hardly any clouds, but resisted.

ps BTY - I think you have way better weather than the PNW as, basically, out here, anytime it’s not down below into the thirties is a good time tor a bike ride out here even when it’s raining as REI sells lots of Murray-land quality rain gear. However, since I don’t have to commute every work day, rain-or-shine. and, since I can’t ride like the wind like I used too around the island, along Lake Washington, etc. unless it’s the four miles across the floating bridge to run with the sunrise at the little lakeside park I like, I don’t do much cycling anymore.

However, today and, it looks like, tomorrow kill him be different.

Has anyone ever set a PR without the usual planning and preparation that goes into it and, instead, all of a sudden, it happened. Me too.

I don’t have much chance to parallel park anymore so I thought this summer’s five inches (2" in front and 3" in back) was pretty much going to be it for the rest of my life. Nope, not at all.

DW sent me off in a hurry yesterday after Thursday afternoon’s 3:30-4:00pm sumo highlights on NHK World so I could get back before it gets really dark by 5pm now.

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A fortuitously close parking space along the street seemed too tight but I gave it a try anyway and, though I had to jog back and forth inch-by-inch about six or seven times, voila, I got in. I knew it  was going to be tight but, since I got in right away, I figured there'd be at least two or three inches to spare.

Unfortunately, though it doesn’t sound possible, with my bumpers touching the bumpers of both cars front-and-back, there was no leeway to get out and with it being a 72 hour parking street that the other cars took advantage of all day today, I’ve been stuck there two days so far and am hoping one of them will move tomorrow (Saturday) so I can get the car back to DW.

Needless to say, DW’s not that impressed with my new parking PR and I had to kind of change my story as her reaction to my story as to why I didn’t bring the car back emerged so I kind of changed to being blocked in or something like that instead of doing it on my own. Whew.

Surly et al - how is it possible to get into a space that’s too tight to get out of? My theory is that, though my reverse alarm kept me from touching the car in the back, once, though I hardly noticed it, when I lightly bumped the car in front and it lurched forw, . . I mean kind of raised up a little, tiny bit maybe about an inch on its springs might have given me a brief opening of enough extra room to get in but not out.

my front bumper and

white car's back bumper

my back bumper

back car's front