Long weekend fireworks & wildfires

Dear my non-existent readers,

It is Monday evening of Victoria Day 2023 and there are fireworks in Ontario.

There may still be wildfires in Alberta**. 

The causes of wildfires can be natural or human.

Between the period of 1793 to 1900 there were ____ buildings destroyed by fire in ______***.

How do people write post-apocalyptic genre? and there is an audience for such a genre.  This speculative fictitious genre, is there any basis behind its speculations?  If there is, will someone be able to explain it in terms I can understand****.

The responses to wildfires are: Fight or Flight.

The disucssions that follows a wildfire are never ending or non-existent.

Spartan Sprint Orono 2023

 Yesterday, I completed Spartan Sprint in Orono.

As expected, I failed obstacles that I never conquered before.  I forgot how many burpees you are suppose to do with each fail, so I am not sure if I completed all burpees and there was no one in sight to remind me how many burpees you are suppose to do.  This year, a lot less people were doing burpees.  In the past, i remember always burpeeing with others.

It's my first year running with a 12:15 start time.  There were a lot less people waiting at the starting line and a bunch of people starting running before 12:15 so I am assuming those are the people who were late for their start time.  I was surpised that you have to do a crawl to reach the starting line this year.  I was also surprised that my shoes were muddy before the pre-start wall.  I am hoping they will never place the rope climb before the start line.

I enjoyed my journey to the finish line very much.  I was at a good pace. I took my sweet time. I did not spend/waste much time waiting for my turn at each obstacle.  Overall it was smooth sailing.

Annual Bike Ride

This year I rode to Orono, Ontario for my annual long ride. Why? because I went there at least twice before.

The ride went well.

BTW, my tablet went missing since this past Tuesday (May 9, 2023) ! I am contemplating reporting the lost to local police.  So far, I am unaware of any significant finanical lost; however, I am monitoring "stuff" that can potentially be tampered with if my device is taken over by an evil person.  The local police can do nothing for me except ask a gazillion questions and gather information from me about my lost/possibly stolen tablet.  I have been using my tablet as my computer since quite a while ago so I have been offline since the item went missing.

Back to my ride.  In order to ride to Orono, I remember roads and ways from memory as well as my map from 2006.  Each time I use that map, I become more familiar with it. It's a beautiful thing!

Yesterday I use the index regarding "regional roads" again.  I am pretty sure my map cuts off at DRR 9.  I have already travelled too far by the time I got to my destination and did not explore DRR 9 some more beyond my 2006 map.  Perhaps, I should have; however, my plan was a one day bike ride so i had to turn back and cannot continue further.  I am not one of those people who decided to bike ride for an entire month or an entire year.  My plan of yesteray was a day trip.

My route HWY 7 > WHITE OR WHITES RD > TAUNTON RD > BEST RD > CONC 7 > BRIDGE > DRR 9 > BRIDGE > CONC 7 > BEST RD > TAUNTON RD > WHITE OR WHITES RD > HWY 7

My indulgence during my travel: iced coffee, donut, baby tomatoes, crackers, water, culture dairy beverage, soy milk, coconut lavender lemonade, vegetarian pizza, meat pizza, dark chocolate wine ice cream.

Places i wished I stopped and shop at includes: local produce store near clarington, prime junk sale, antique store.

I went to the same place to eat bruch and afternoon tea. Part of me wish I went for lunch or afternoon tea at a diner where the parking lot was busy enough.  I am wondering if that diner had a "today's special"; however, I had my heart set on pizza and coconut lavender lemonade from the first food place I visited that day during brunch time so I continued passed the diner.

Cheat: On my return trip, at around 4:30 pm I boarded the 915 on Taunton.

The day before my journey, I studied the map and did not write any notes. It was easy, because my route was pretty straight and I did not venture into any park areas with lots of trees and "messier, harder to read" trails away from cars.  Yes, the entire time, I was riding besides cars! It is easier to get lost in trails away from cars (I've done that before).

Anyhow, it's much easier to go off on a tangent with a keyboard.