Rising oil prices have finally hit home. Yesterday, I rode my bicycle to work, about 12 miles one way. The bike trails from Middleton to the University are spotty, but it isn't a bad ride. I have avoided doing this, however, because I usually drag my laptop back and forth.
Who knows? Maybe rising oil prices will finally inspire me to shed a few pounds.
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1. Posted by Paul Stancil on August 8, 2006 @ 7:30 | Permalink
Gordon -- I just bought this backpack for my laptop and have been extremely pleased with it:
http://www.ebags.com/ebags/downloader_laptop_backpack/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=15025
2. Posted by bill on August 9, 2006 @ 8:33 | Permalink
I used to drag my laptop around on my bike. Then a realized that with a 1GB thumbdrive and by keeping my email on the web I didn't really need to do that if I had a computer at home and one at work.
3. Posted by Gordon Smith on August 9, 2006 @ 8:54 | Permalink
Thanks, Paul and Bill. You two are reminding me that I am stuck in my old ways. I just bought a computer for my home office (with six other people in the family, the other computers are in high demand), and I think Bill's solution will work pretty well.
4. Posted by Elizabeth on August 10, 2006 @ 4:47 | Permalink
Thanks for sharing your story, Gordon. I plan to walk in the fall, in large part b/c I cannot justify the waste of resources for a 3/4 mile trip to school. As I understand it, however, walks in Ithaca are usually uphill. . . both ways. If and when we meet up at the AALS meeting this year, I anticipate that we both will be looking more svelte than ever. And I will consider one of those laptop bags. As we know, using shoulder bags is bad on the back (or something like that).
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