I hadn’t been on my unicycle once this whole year. There’s not a lot of empty parking lot where I work these days, and it’s really a more corporate environment in general than the last few places. I wouldn’t be comfortable riding around in the center of the campus, and there’s too much traffic there anyway. However, several weeks ago when I got to work really really late I found a candidate place to ride. It’s the top floor of the parking garage! It has very few cars, really isn’t far away, and hs reasonably flat, smooth surface.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning I\u00c2\u00a0 got the uni out of the attic, pumped up the tire (note! singular! Of course!), and threw it in the trunk. I drove on up to the top floor of the parking garage and was delighted to see that there was only one other car there. I intended to ride on my lunch hour, but by the time I had walked around the pond and had my lunch I was making too much progress on a bug I was fixing to take another long break. I thought about it during the afternoon, but it didn’t seem appropriate to disappear at that point. Finally before driving home I took the uni out of the trunk and did one lap around the top floor. It worked fine. As usual for the first time out of a year, I didn’t have any trouble getting started. I’ve never figured out why it works that way, but it always seems to. That may be my only uni ride for the year, but at least I got that one in.<\/p>\n
Oh, that’s the parking garage on the right of rte 128 northbound just before the overpass about a mile before the Highland Avenue, Needham and Newton Highlands, exit. Next time you go by, just shake your head and say to the person next to you, “This internet community really is pretty strange. I know someone who rides a unicycle around that parking garage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hadn’t been on my unicycle once this whole year. There’s not a lot of empty parking lot where I work these days, and it’s really a more corporate environment in general than the last few places. I wouldn’t be comfortable riding around in the center of the campus, and there’s too much traffic there … <\/p>\n