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Winter is coming
Oct. 26th, 2017 09:56 pmAs I mentioned in my last post, it did snow a bit on the drive to Kemi, and I kinda wished I had had snow tires. Eino, of course, wished it even more, since he encountered more muddy snow in his 14 hour drive than in my 1.75 hour drive. Therefore we agreed to meet up this week and change the tires on both cars (his winter tires have been stored here, since he is in an apartment). Tuesday wasn't an option due to being full up with lots of stuff, including gymnastics in the evening. So we decided on Wednesday afternoon, and agreed to meet at 13:00 at my office and he would drive me home. Therefore I walked in that morning--the first time I have walked since I started biking in the spring. My legs let me know that it is very different muscles.
However, there were some delays, and we needed to head to a store to buy some copper paste, etc. so we didn't actually start the tire changing till after 14:00. We started with my car, and the process took so long that sun finished setting (which happened at 16:33) before we were done. There had been a rather cold wind blowing, and we both decided that enough is enough, and agreed to meet again today to do his car. So we did. His turned out to be much easier. My tires need to be lifted into place, holes lined up with holes, and then bolts carefully slid into them before tightening. His tires have the bolts attached to the frame, and one simply lines up the holes in the tire with the bolts, slides it into place, and then adds nuts. As a result we were done early enough to eat some dinner and still give me enough time to lay down for a 20 minute nap before it would be time to head to the Frostheim meeting. Of course, pretty much as soon as I was curled up on the couch my phone rang. So instead of sleeping I happily chatted with David, who was doing the 45 minute drive home from Piteå after work.
Then I got up and went in for the meeting. We had decided last week that this week should be dancing, since we have an event coming up, so when I got there I moved all the tables and chairs to the edges of the room, finishing just before the others arrived. We would up having exactly 6 people this evening, oddly enough three male and three female. Since they were mostly brand-new to SCA dances we did only a few dances, over and over. We started with Petite virens (since there were only three of us for the first few minutes), then we started learning Rufty Tufty before the other three arrived, so when they did I decided that it made sense to keep working on that, with one full set, and one half set. Then I taught them Black Nag and Bransle l'Official before they decided that they had to call it a night and do some school work yet this evening.
However, there were some delays, and we needed to head to a store to buy some copper paste, etc. so we didn't actually start the tire changing till after 14:00. We started with my car, and the process took so long that sun finished setting (which happened at 16:33) before we were done. There had been a rather cold wind blowing, and we both decided that enough is enough, and agreed to meet again today to do his car. So we did. His turned out to be much easier. My tires need to be lifted into place, holes lined up with holes, and then bolts carefully slid into them before tightening. His tires have the bolts attached to the frame, and one simply lines up the holes in the tire with the bolts, slides it into place, and then adds nuts. As a result we were done early enough to eat some dinner and still give me enough time to lay down for a 20 minute nap before it would be time to head to the Frostheim meeting. Of course, pretty much as soon as I was curled up on the couch my phone rang. So instead of sleeping I happily chatted with David, who was doing the 45 minute drive home from Piteå after work.
Then I got up and went in for the meeting. We had decided last week that this week should be dancing, since we have an event coming up, so when I got there I moved all the tables and chairs to the edges of the room, finishing just before the others arrived. We would up having exactly 6 people this evening, oddly enough three male and three female. Since they were mostly brand-new to SCA dances we did only a few dances, over and over. We started with Petite virens (since there were only three of us for the first few minutes), then we started learning Rufty Tufty before the other three arrived, so when they did I decided that it made sense to keep working on that, with one full set, and one half set. Then I taught them Black Nag and Bransle l'Official before they decided that they had to call it a night and do some school work yet this evening.
