It’s been hot, really really hot. So hot in fact that I worry sometimes that I might melt and/or spontaneously cumbust. One nice thing about this heat is that I can dry my cloths in my apartment with some rope and it only takes about an hour for them all to dry (pro tip: drying the cloths right on the hanger means you don’t have to iron your nice shirts) The sunny weather also means that I have been able to ride y bike to work for the last week. So far the worst has been a couple of tense braking situations, but ridding your bike to work in a city like Boston, in which the roads have been laid out in order to align evil forced for some sort of dark pilgrim magic, takes a lot of vigilance. I never got this many regular, fast, rides in in my last home and my legs are starting to show the results. I am such a skinny little guy that it doesn’t take a lot of exercise to get me ripped. By the end of next month I should look like a T-Rex, rar!

I really like the job I have now, but when I see the bike messengers pedaling their packages to and fro I get a certain kind of jealousy. I wonder if they have some sort of weekend warrior bike messenger program I could get in on. I have been taking some pictures, which I hope to upload to the neglected photoblog. Boston is, how to put this nicely, an ugly city. But ugly in the way that you can tell its been around for a while, the roads have that “lived in” feel. With many parts of the city looking almost organic in the way the natural and human made elements overlap. It is also a small city. I got lost on my bike (streets like a maze I tell you) and ended up on the other side of town.

This week The Sietch is going to be running it’s very first contest, with a prize! Stay tuned for details, it should be pretty fun, and the prizes are pretty nice as well. I will leave you with a couple photos below the fold.