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I am now learning everything I didn't already know about the rules of basketball, which is not very much, but more than I thought it would be.

I learned a lesson yesterday while biking in the early (and already dark) evening: Always carry extra batteries with you, because even if you have two lights, both can be dim at the same time. And a dim light is barely better than no light at all.

When it gets really cold like it is this week here in Oregon, I find myself doing two things: Putting "buying biking tights and/or long johns" on my to-do list, and praying for rainy weather (because an overcast sky is nearly always less cold than a clear one). Maybe I'll buy a ski hat also, you know, one of those warm head coverings that you pull down over your face so you look like a bandit.