Welp, gotta do a quick post - I still have a ton of crap to do before I go to bed. Gonna go on a 4 day vacation at my parent's lake house. Should be fun.
I hate my car. Perpetually jinxed. I thought I had this stupid "check engine" light fixed, because of the sensitivity to the cool temp/bad gas, needed oil change - no, came on again today. I was like..screw this..Ok, I'll go to the VW dealershit and buy the coolant (you cannot buy off the shelf coolant for a VW..you have to buy it at the dealershit...it's $20 a gallon - red stuff). Bought it, then tapped off the resevoir. Heck no - to no avail. I hope I better not break down on either trip to or from the lake (bout 5 hour drive each way).
I'll take some pics during this trip, get in a few bike rides. Speaking of which (after I got my special coolant at the VW dealershit), I went to Vienna and took in a very chilly 34 mile bike ride. Saw about 10 deer - in 4 instances, usually a doe with one or two baby deer. It's soo odd how comfortable they are with us silly bright colored bicyclists...they just sit there and graze...like no biggie. They stand there - less than 10 feet away, just kinda sniffing the air, prolly thinking..what the heck is that?..deoderant? They look confused like cats when you hold out a hand - deliberately bewildered...
On the way, teamed up with this dude on a recumbant bike (silly looking thangs) while we were waiting to cross route 123 in Vienna - he told me that he commutes from Reston (home) to Ballston (work) - 'bout 10 miles each way - he hates cars. He also told me that 1.5% of the population in Northern Virginia bike to work - which raised a few eyebrows, so State developers are currently proposing and building new bike paths. Way cool.
Next post will be on Tuesday evening - enjoy the weekend.