Hey slackers! Daylight savings time ends at 2AM and standard time begins, which means you get another hour before last-call and then you get to sleep noon and still get another hour of morning, which you can use to sleep in until noon.
But it also means your commute home Monday is gonna have a lot less sunshine add winter to the mix and visibility is lower than it was on the dance floor Sunday Morning.
If you are driving, remember to drive the below than the speed limit and less as conditions warrant. Because you have muchless time to react to cyclists and pedestrians especially those who are camouflaged by the night. And don't forget if you hit somebody you are strongly discouraged from just driving away. Unless you like prison.
But worse than prison is being on the wrong side of the front grill of a Caddilacescalade being driving by a senile Chinese woman who just learned to text.
Send hate mail here.
Reflective clothing and lights help increase your visibility from 50 ft to more than 10x that amount. And that gives her almost enough time to find the send button.
Yesterday, I headed down to thebe safe be seen public education event and fashion show. It was a great reminder that as long as our roads are designed first and foremost for motor-carriages you might as well make yourself visible from airplanes AND that 72' trans am with broken wipers and cracked windshield.
Seriously, though,cycling and walking through the winter can be super satisfying if you are ready with the right gear. It blows away the winter blues, forces to embrace the season and get outside and circulate. Plus you get to impress all your friends at work and of course reduce the amount of money you give tothe 1%ers.
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