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#yegbike commute: chilly at -6°C with light southwest winds. Surfaces mostly bare, but enough crunchy ice sections made me not regret taking the winter beater with spiked tires. Maybe last ride for that bike this season? Anyway, not a bad ride. Traffic surprisingly light and well-behaved. Only a few people out and about, inner city medium active with only one sidewalk campfire. Can’t really complain. #earworm ‘I Wish They All Could Be Empowered Girls’ (working on an updated version of the Beach Boys song)

#yegbike commute, pm update: enough snow fell through the day that drifts and uncleared paths can be downright skittery, requiring mountain bike trail skills. Some minor roads are beautiful snowpack, some medium roads quite brown sugar mushy. Main roads are okay in the tracks, but any intersection or curve require mindful caution. Back at work, I had the ladies who enjoy my unofficial hymn sing study the #earworm of the day, 'In The Bleak Midwinter'. They really listened to it as there was an actual snowstorm right outside the large windows. They really like the song, and want to sing it at hymn sing now. Luckily we have a real hymn singing piano player for that, I'll just have to find her the sheet music. I can pick out the tune, but my piano playing makes it sound like a jazz/blues number. Here is a version that showed me the song - a lady playing it along with a bunch of ghosts only she can see and hear. https://youtu.be/iZ-tYofndFY

This is cool - I'd never thought about snow like this! When Snow Becomes a City Planner | @yegbike.bsky.social #yeg #yegtraffic #yegdt #yegbike https://yegbike.substack.com/p/when-snow-becomes-a-city-planner

#yegbike commute: warmish at +3°C with slight northwest wind. Surfaces fairly icy, snowpack covered with a ight sheen, sidewalks slippery. Main roads okay, but caution is required throughout. It’s not as bad as I feared, but it’s not good. Traffic was blessedly light, and mostly driving slow and careful. Street life out and about but quiet and self contained. #earworm ‘Running On Empty’, Jackson Browne