Tweed Coast Treadly » Commutes

Commute to Continue

fingers — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:52:53 +0000

Well now that the DER is again financial. I will be looking forward to the commute to continue throughout the Spring and Summer . It may not last even now but that will be unforseen. Even though it is rather boring work, it is busy so the day day goes quickly. That all leads to the bit of time between riding seems short.

I am also looking forward to the end of these blasted South Easters and the return of the afternoon Sea Breeze to send me on my way each afternoon I’m on the bike.

Mur’bah Commute

fingers — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:31:40 +0000

Meeting tomorrow so I rang the DET office location and was told “no worries” about secure bicycle parking. They will let me use their undercover lockup. cool. Now I just need to secure the Netbook for the trip over Reserve Creek and it is all go. I think I will ride the Cypress rather than the Shogun as the route is hilly rather than the usual flat to undulating Tweed route.

Edit: the meeting went a bit longer than advertised and I didn’t leave until after 4:30PM through the thick hot smoky air filling the Tweed Valley. Rode Reserve Creek Rd. as planned but needed to ride the last 3 kms in late twilight. Made it home with another 23 km on the commuter computer.

Joined the throng

fingers — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:39:11 +0000

Just a test posting to see if posting will do my tweet for me. Commuted home against the wind today. I thought it would be a nice Nor’Easter but it didn’t really get that far round just an annoying crosswind. And the smoke from local fires on Watty Bishop Clotiers Creek made for a difficult to breath ride towards the end…

I must be bored

fingers — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:29:54 +0000

This week i decided to “register… for the 2010 Bicycle Commuter Challenge!” with Bicycle NSW, not sure why at all. Got all the crap provided including an e_logbook in the form of an excel spreadsheet, which looks to have been created by a high school student. It required inclusion of few functions to actually make it at least a little automated. FGS the sum() fn has got to be the most basic spreadsheet function and yet the sheet required the user to actually manually sum a column. For an organisation that is funded and where employees are paid and are not volunteers it is a little amaturish. This may seem a bit contrite and petty but hey It’s just an opinion

pre election federals

fingers — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:07:43 +0000

Well riding to work may become a used to do exercise after this weekend. Having a job that is one of the political footballs at the moment will see my continued employment being decided by the voters of Australia. So continued commuting all depends on the election outcome. I’m no stanger to this. I was a trainer during the 90′s in the Labor LEAP program running in the local area. Labor lost that election to the Howard slashers waking up on the following Monday to no job. Now I will be facing a very similar fate if Abbott the mad monk gets in. I will see next week…