daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
I recently bought a Miseyo Self Inking Date Stamp to use in my daily journal. I like it a lot. It’s convenient ad adds a little bit of variety to my journal pages, as well as being functional. It add a bit of fun to my morning routine too, as it’s so satisfying to stamp. 😀
At lunchtime today I went for a ride with Sophie to Brushy Creek Regional Trail. I wanted to try out the Jaws Flex Clamp Mount which I got a few months ago. I wasn’t really happy with the video I was getting when the GoPro was mounted directly to the handlebars. It tended to pan side-to-side quite a bit which didn’t look so good. So I thought that mounting the GoPro to the bicycle’s top-tube might give a smoother result, and I was right!
Even though the cables are in the way of the shot, I like the field of view much more. I enjoy watching POV bicycling videos where the handlebars are in the frame, which was a difficult angle to capture on the Peugeot. On my mountain bikes, my body is more upright, so I can wear the chest-mount and get the desired angle. But with my road bike, my body is leaning so far forward that when I use the chest mount, there’s too much of my arms in the frame.
The Jaws Flex Clamp Mount solves this problem, and now I can have smooth video with the field-of-view I like best. The clamp looks a bit silly on the bike, but when I am riding, it’s hard to tell it’s there.
This evening as I was making dinner, I could see the beautiful clouds from our kitchen window. So I had to run upstairs to take a photo. A few minutes later, I would repeat that trip upstairs for another snap, and then I did that for a third time. I’m getting my stairs exercises in today, that’s for sure! 😄
One thing that I appreciate every time I go out for a ride with Sophie (my Peugeot bicycle) is that road bikes are much faster than mountain bikes on the pavement. Of course that makes sense since the frames are generally lighter and the narrower, smoother tires that are inflated to a much higher pressure have less rolling-resistance, but I am still taken aback at how quickly Sophie accelerates and gets up to speed.
She’s 50-years-old and I am 53, so we’re no spring chickens, but it’s still fun to ride fast. Or maybe it just feels fast. At any rate, it’s a blast.
We bought a new Panasonic FlashXpress Toaster Oven and set it up today. It’s so nice and clean that it will be a shame to get it dirty. 😀
We had this same toaster oven in silver before, but the power switch finally failed. But we love this toaster oven and it’s much faster than our Breville oven for small items… like toast.
