gwax's rumblings

Haven’t really got much to say, but I try not to go too long with­out post­ing some­thing, so I’ll just dump a few things from my brain to my blog.

I’m in Woods Hole (Southwest tip of Cape Cod, MA) for my job right now and I’m plan­ning on being here for the major­ity of my sum­mer, namely Monday through Friday of most weeks. I may decide to some week­ends long and some short, at least with respect to my phys­i­cal loca­tion, but that’s some­thing that will be worked out on a week-to-week basis at my discretion.

I am find­ing that Woods Hole is qui­eter, as a place, than either Concord or Cambridge. By quiet, I mean some­thing kind of vague that should encom­pass quiet, calm, sim­ple and a few other sim­i­lar adjec­tives. All in all, it is very pleas­ant here, though I find myself miss­ing the com­pany of some of my bet­ter friends with whom I would be see­ing or com­mu­ni­cat­ing were I in Concord or Cambridge. Then there are the friends that are gone from Massachusetts for the sum­mer (or longer), whom I don’t even get the chance to see on week­ends. On the other hand, there are peo­ple here whom I have not seen in a long time, whom it is good to see again. It bal­ances out and is, over­all, rather pleasant.

Just this week­end, I pur­chased a new bicy­cle for myself. The last bike I owned was one that I got at some point either in or shortly before middle-school and haven’t used in more than six years. Since my old bike was no longer large enough for me and I am now employed with a rea­son­able wage, I decided to finally buy myself a new bike, one that would last for a very long time and serve all of my bik­ing needs. The bike that I chose to buy is a Cannondale Jekyll 600 in grey and black and I have so far been quite pleased with it. The bike has front and rear shocks, disk brakes and a bunch of other nice fea­tures. Having heard from my friend Riad that rear shocks serve to soak up a por­tion of the rid­ing energ, I was hes­i­tant to get rear shocks, but my par­tic­u­lar brand of shock includes a lock-out fea­ture that allows the shock to be dis­abled in the case that a long ride on flat ter­rain is expected. I’m totally psy­ched about my new bike, it’s pretty much the bike that I’ve always wanted.

The weather was a lit­tle bit too damp (rainy) yes­ter­day but, since today is a beau­ti­ful day and the sun is plan­ning to be up for quite a while, I plan to go out and bike around for an hour or so after din­ner tonight. Woods Hole, awe­some bike, pay­ing job, all in all, things are pretty good for me right now. Oh, and there’s cable at my grand­par­ents house so when I get home in the evening I can catch an hour or so of the History Channel or the Discovery Channel before I go to sleep.

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