Yesterday I cycled the 23.5 km to (and again back from) work, a ride I try to make at least once a month. The route between Heidelberg and North West Mannheim can be tricky, but I have settled on two options, depending mostly on the weather: if it’s too wet, I’ll avoid the narrow track directly by the Neckar river in Ladenbuerg, but that’s the route that made me feel best, with its appealing mix of rough and the exceedingly smooth, along the “Fahrradautobahn” through the old US-NATO Spinelli Barracks in Mannheim.
Today I was back meeting from home, trying once again to balance the direct interactions of meetings with the “post-processing” of writing up minutes and condensing meaning and actions from all the descriptions and proposals.
I finished the day with a short ride to the allotment garden with my daughter, starting to see it wind down, though there are still pumpkins coming along: the raspberries are still going astonishingly strong!
Yes, dull garden stuff, but it is genuinely a great way of switching over from the work mindset.
That, plus a bit of Star Trek Voyager, general browsing (the Stupids are still in charge in many places, it seems), and now looking forward for a quiet read and - a long-standing wish (or dream?) of mine - a good night’s sleep
