A change in the weather

[slowfox]

After a whole summer's worth of good weather (three cloudless days), the skies o'er Castle Fox are overcast once more. Although it feels a little cooler than yesterday morning, it'll still be warm on the ride in, I think.

This is an issue because I bought a new bike jacket - it's bright, hi-viz orange. In fact, it's so bright I'm beginning to suspect it has a half-life...

However, the downside to riding along in a coat that fries retina at 40 metres is that it gets very warm inside. So I risk arriving at work lightly poached. Hrmmm. Decisions...

Comments

[linaelyn]

What I mean to say is -- I'm truly glad you've got this jacket, increasing your chance of being seen. And I shall look for something similar for Estel (who tends to wear greys, browns and olive-greens!)

[slowfox]

this is the jacket, but IRL, it's much, much more vivid. Also comes in yellow, but, srsly, what I wanted was same in fluoro pink.

[linaelyn]

Oooooooh, quite spiffy, and as you say, +8 to your visibility rolls at a minimum! Well chosen.

Fluoro!pink? It's a good color on you. *smirk*

[slowfox]

Sadly, doesn't do much to my armour class, but yeah, +8 on vis sounds about right :D

[linaelyn]

Armor class, schmarmor class. If you wanted armor, you'd be in a CAR. This option for commuting raises your strength, dexterity, and your charisma. It's a reasonable trade-off.

[slowfox]

Magic User/Thief/Cyclist FTW!!!

[slowfox]

If you wanted armor, you'd be in a CAR

Because I get DW comment notifications emailed to me, and because I use gmail, and because I'm not that bothered about the potential privacy implications of Google scanning my correspondence so as to helpfully provide more targetted ads...

...the banner ad in my Inbox reads 'Armored Passenger Cars'... I did, indeed, click on the link, because I expected to be amused. And I was.

But the killer is at the foot of the web page (which I'm not linking because they don't deserve any more free advertising), which simply says 'Visit us in Utah'. Utah! How'd I guess?? ;-P

[linaelyn]

In an attempt to find your Utah Purveyor of Armored Passenger Cars, I hunted for such a beast.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered there's an entire Utah Armored Car Directory with many vendors of such an item.

*belly-laughs*