I want my baby camera to be here already.

[cerealjoe]

This morning I'm actually waiting for my Diana Mini to be delivered. Yes, they don't send those through the regular post, they send those through DHL and DHL and I are not good friends at all. Apparently they came on Friday at 2pm but somehow their site only told me that the package was being dispatched in Helsinki a few minutes beforehand so there was no way I could make it. I called them up that evening and I scheduled a re-delivery this morning... or at some point tomorrow! Thank goodness I actually have a job where I can work from home but can't they figure out their delivery times a bit like an airport taxi where they give you a 15 minute window? It surely can't be that hard! Speaking of work, I have five papers to review for that conference I sent in my two papers the other Friday. Five. As long as they never ask me to actually be a coordinator for one of the reviewing pools, I'm alright though. In terms of snow updates, we haven't had any new snow in weeks and in a way it's good. The other day I got a photo of the last remaining cars under the snow, they're getting rarer and rarer as people have figured out that it's not going to melt any time soon so they might as well dig their cars out. What really gets me are bikes left in the snow! How could one do that to a bike? It hurts my little heart seeing things like that... As time goes by the snow gets packed under its weight, it might even turn to ice if ever the temperatures rise a bit. What are the owners thinking? Some of the bikes are really nice, I doubt their owners wanted to get rid of them. I suppose they could be stolen but still... My little bike is nice and warm in the bike shed, I should actually go check up on it eventually.

Comments

[ivanza.livejournal.com]

Poor bikes. I suppose the chain (at least) will get unusable.
I can't believe that someone could act like this to his "horse".

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

The good thing is that there aren't that many gross things in the snow as in some countries... no sand or anything of the sort. Possibly the amount of work to be done to get the bikes back on track won't be too huge.

[ivanza.livejournal.com]

Despite proper lubrication, it's definitely not good for the chain, wires and bearings. Electronics (if any left) would not be happy too.

The bike will survive, but it will not be so healthy as it was before :(