A Nice Day for a Walk

[rowyn]

The temperature hovered in the single-digits (Fahrenheit) for most of last week, accompanied by a bit of snow and all-around unpleasantness, as far as the weather went. I only walked home from work once the whole week; every other day I hitched a ride with one of my coworkers.

This week, the ice storm and snow on Sunday and Monday notwithstanding, the weather's been nicer. This afternoon, it was very nearly above freezing, and I looked forward to my walk home.

It was a pleasant walk, in fact. Most of the ice and slush had melted off the roads. While 33 degrees isn't warm enough that I'd want to lounge on my porch, it was comfortable enough while walking. Once I got home, I checked my mail, then walked to my front door, unslinging my backpack to get out my purse and my keys.

Which weren't there.

I pack my lunch and my purse into my backpack every morning, and take my purse out at work to put it in my desk. (I keep my soda in an insulated bag at the bottom of my backpack, so taking the purse out makes it easier to get to.

Lut and I have been planning to get a combination lock for the side door on the garage, and keep a spare key in the garage, but we haven't yet. I checked to see if the basement door was open (sometimes I forget and leave it unlocked). No joy.

So I walked back to work to get my keys.

I got a ride home after that. It wasn't that nice a day.

Comments

[caffeinewabbit.livejournal.com]

See? Murphy is a jerk.

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[rowyn]

Yeah! And he smells funny, too!

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

It is from eating that Murphy Slaw.

===|==============/ Level Head

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[rowyn]

I suppose I should say something about Cole's Law, but I think I'll settle for waving my sledgehammer menacingly instead. Gnar!

[minor-architect.livejournal.com]

Drat! Poor Rowyn. :-/

I actually saw a nice little scooter the other day...on "The Price Is Right." It was one of the prizes. Had I been on the show at the time and won the game, I would've given it to you for occasions such as this! Honest.

It's just my luck that I was only playing from home. ;-)

[rowyn]

Heeheehee. That's okay. I haven't bought a scooter myself because I know I won't walk to work if I have a vehicle available, and I need the exercise. :)

In a fit of environmentalist angst

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

Small talk as I was carrying home packages instead of driving over to pick them up:

[elderly gentleman] "Short sleeve weather, is it?"

[me] "The snow is melting."

There was also no wind...a very critical factor in how I dress for the weather. I had the sense to wear black slacks this time ;)

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[rowyn]

Yeah, the low wind helped a lot. The wind this morning was bad enough that my fingers were frozen in the distance between the parking lot and the bank when I walked in. Brr!

On the other hand, I wasn't walking around in short sleeves yesterday, m'self. I don't even wear short sleeves when I'm inside. Must be reptile blood in me. :)

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on keeping up with your new years resolution to get more exercise! :D

Scott (There's always a bright side if you look) Kellogg

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[rowyn]

Go me!

(though, technically, that was a resolution to lose a little weight, not get more exercise).

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[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Same thing!

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Argh! Moments like these are why I'm almost paranoid about double-checking to make sure I've got my keys before I closed a locked door, keeping them on my person in a pocket, etc. Backpacks and purses are destined to get forgotten now and then. It's a little harder to forget your pants.

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[rowyn]

That's because you're a man. :)

Actually, I'm serious. This is the first time I've forgotten my purse somewhere in, I don't know, 20 years. The only reason I forgot it this time is because I was used to having it in my backpack -- which I didn't forget. When you carry something everywhere, you are acutely conscious of its absence. I am no more going to walk out of the bank without that weight on me than I am to forget to wear my pants out of the house. >:)

Of course, you don't carry a backpack (or a purse) everywhere, so it's not the same "part of you" that an article of clothing is. If I wasn't in the habit of wearing a purse, I'd probably be equally conscious of checking the contents of my pockets. But since I do carry a purse, I'd be a hundred times more likely to forget that I needed to move my keys from the pocket I was wearing yesterday to the pocket I am wearing today, than I am to forget to grab my purse. Not to mention that not everything I wear has pockets. ;)

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[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Touche. ;) But, really, I find it almost unthinkable to ever have clothes that don't have pockets. It's one reason that I hardly ever wear T-shirts except for yard work or when I'm going to do painting. It just doesn't feel right when I don't have somewhere to put a note or receipt.

Poor Gwendel! She occasionally locks herself out of the house, and then has to wait for me to come home from work. (Fortunately, yesterday when she locked herself out of the house, she had a CAR KEY, so she just drove to work to fetch me.)

Sometimes I wish there were just some way I could just conjure up useful items from thin air when I needed them, and tuck them away just as easily. I feel the need to have some sort of a KEY to get into my house ... but keys can get LOST, and they just add to the number of THINGS I have to carry around.

(I wish for a Bag of Holding! Whoops. Wrong universe.)

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[ltwarhound.livejournal.com]

Then you'd lose the bag. Or forget, and put another bag of holding in it, and create a rift in reality, losing both bags and their contents.

But then you'd be in that other universe, so you could get a replacement bag. In theory.

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[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Uhm ... a Hat of Holding? No, it'd blow off in a strong wind.

Oh, drat it, I wish then for my own personal assistant to carry stuff for me (and remind me when I forget things). ;)