You can blame me for the continuing cold. My bad.

Pre-script: I finally put some posts up about my polka dot Marfy 1913 and the Rosemary and Wine sweater wot I made two and one months ago. Click on the pictures to read them. Go ahead. I'll wait. Or don't. Your call, really.

It has been cold for so long here, that on Monday during March Break when it went up to 12 degrees (Celsius, baby), it was cause for celebration. Except I spent most of it inside making a sweater for colder temperatures and hoping I'd be able to wear it. Which is probably why the temperature dropped 10 degrees the next day and has stayed around freezing for the rest of the month. Oops. My bad.

I took these pictures by the lake at the beginning of my abbreviated macarondonnée on the first day of spring and let's just say I should have left the gloves on. The harbour was solid ice and there was a brisk wind. It was chilly.



I need to learn to use my power wisely.

Lucky number thirteen, and there's an end: Errandonnées #12 - 13

I was not planning to be finished the Errandonnée yesterday. Today was warm, and I thought I would go out and wash my bike, which it desperately needs, and go to the library, but the lure of the jammies was too great and I actually sewed some stuff and ran some internal errands. So here are my final entries.

Careful the things you say: Errandonnées #9 - 11

Pi Day is also the first day of this year's March Break. My usual modus operandi for the holiday is to laze around at the beginning, then rush around like a madwoman near the end trying to get stuff done. I thought I'd try a different strategy this time.

It sort of worked. I totally lazed this morning, then, realizing I would have to get a move on if I wanted to get some errands in before going to see a movie. Now, normally, I would have probably let the errands go in favour of not getting dressed, but... Errandonnée!

The Errandonnée: good for my social life and for Getting Stuff Done.

Not only Stuff, but Stuff That I've Been Meaning To Do For A Good Long While. Like take about $50 in rolled nickels and dimes to the bank (partially exchanged for $25 in loonies).

Turns out $50 in tiny coins is a lot heavier than twice $25 in loonies.

Pi-endulum (updated)

Happy Pi Day!

You may have been hearing a little bit more about Pi Day this year since we can time it exactly to 3.1415926^* (although that depends, as always, on how you write your date^**). Matt Parker of Standup Maths has made a really nice video showing how a pendulum can be used to calculate pi.

I have a slight quibble with him saying a pendulum has nothing to do with a circle because they are related via sine functions, but it's not immediately obvious, so I'll let it go.

Also? PI pi smackdown!



Edited to add: And naturally Vi Hart has chimed in...


^*That last digit should really be 7 since we're rounding. Hence my posting time.

^**More pertinently, on how you've set up Blogger write your date. Let's just pretend, shall we?

Warmer... warmer... oops! colder... warmer...: Errandonnées #5 - 8

This week, it was all one errand per day; in the past I would did individual daily posts, but I'm going to lump them all together.

This post is a bit picture-heavy. You're welcome.

Monday on the way home from school, I realized I had just enough time to go renew my library card. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was actually too warm to wear my earwarmers. Delightful!

In which PhysicsGirls acquires too many shoes: Errandonnées #2-4

Saturday... was warm. Well, warm-er. As in, close to freezing. It was very exciting. I've been going around saying "+1!"



What do I do when it is almost-but-not-quite +1? Errandonnée on my bike without a face mask. And buy shoes, apparently. It was glorious.

I am officially tired of winter: Errandonnée #1

Another year, another Errandonnée from MG at chasing mailboxes. 12 errands, 12 days. Starting today. As usual, I'm going to try to hit all the categories. Kind of looking forward to "You carried WHAT on your bike?" You've got until the 16th to fit them all in, should you wish to play along at home.

Even though there's only one errand here, this post is a bit long. However, it has it all: biking, ranting, craftiness, and science. Yay errandonnée!

It's been solidly in the negative teens to twenties for months. Yesterday, we had a brief lift up into merely freezing, only for it to plunge back down just in time to start off this year's errandonnée with yet another bitterly cold ride to work.