So the Ride of Silence last night was dutifully silent. Mostly. It was also pretty boring. I'm going to stop doing these things. About 15 people eventually showed up. That did not include the leader, who did not show up. Something about his wife going into labor or some other cheap excuse. The leader pro tem didn't know what to do, so come 7:00 pm, people just sort of "well, I suppose we should be on our way then." The description was "a 12 mph ride" so most of the type A's in the group (of which there is an extraordinarily large number at every organized cycling event, I've found) took it as more of a command than a recommendation aimed at trying to keep the group together. Except the head chick had no cyclometer and was under the impression that 5 mph and 12 mph were "close enough". So one of the type-A's took the lead and brought it up to acceptible speed, although with that increased authority, he also took it upon himself to make sure everyone was together adn that we all waited at each light. Do you know how many lights there are on Mass Ave? Still, riding in a small group at slow speeds is not a lot of fun, especially down something like Mass Ave. All in all, I think I'll skip these sorts of things from now on.
Walking around town yesterday, it seemed everyone was out on their stoops. It stopped raining and the sun was out and so, then, were the people. Everybody was friendly and squinting.
I think I'm about Agatha Christie'd out. I've gone through about half a dozen of them so far and they're starting to blur.
- 4:50 from Paddington
- A.B.C. Murders
- Bertram's Hotel
- Curtain
- Death in the Air
- Strange Affair at Styles
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd
I should have been out on the bike today.
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