After a fresh fill of the tires and a check on the bearings and brakes I set a new, personal record for going shopping. 15 Watts... so the range of power usage to go shopping has varied between 15-100 Watts for the same distance traveled on the same route under different conditions so the next time someone asks "how far will it go?" I'll answer "far enough to get there and back"
Well how 'bout that eclipse?!
Actually the local sky was smoke and fogged to the point where I just barely discerned a change in the brightness... which wasn't very bright to begin with and I couldn't see any trace of a sun.
Wild fires still winning the war.
My sister and bil had to evacuate and are living at the drummer for _____'s house on the coastline.
My ______ ________ is completely out of control, but life continues. New drugs on the horizon, or, in the mail as I type this.
Speaking of drugs... as you might know, Oregon has completely decriminalized, even made state-legal, the use of a particular felony-inducing smoke-em-if-you-got-em drug which I've found to completely control my tremors to the point where I can build things once more.
Unfortunately or fortunately (depends on your personal point-of-view) I don't get loosey goosey from using it, as I only use a tiny amount to effect my hands and neck.
And speaking of "loosey goosey...
Time is a funny thing, in that it seems flexible: As in, time flows differently from one location to the next, yet the absolute flow of time remains the same.
I had one of those "moments" (not drug-induced) where I completely understood the relationships between relativity of moments where a point resides on multiple planes each plain referenced to a different location.
If I wanted to move from point A to point B I only had to move the point B plain to me (whats-is-name and mountain comes to mind)
... and as I was looking over the process everything went "poof". Moment over. Probably a dream of sorts.
But one thing I did retain from this 'moment' is my "new" (new to me) concept of past, present, future.
...and that is: we never experience the present. i.e we always live in the past, while we Can Anticipate the future, the present is never really known to us as our perspective is warped by the passage of time. (it takes time to process the reflections of light photons (from the past, natch) that takes time to travel to our eye(s) which takes time to process the image in our brain while filling in the black holes we all have (and lots of other steps) and this takes time. Our other senses take a similar unrelated paths. The "present" happened well before* we actually experience it.( *well before, as in being a fraction, indeed, a very small fraction, of a second) but how much time doesn't matter. It's the fact that time has flowed at all.
And what does this have to do with ebikes? who knows?
...but let's talk reaction time. And about me because it's always about mememe.
When I was In my mid 20s I started working in areas where my reaction time had to be quick (supposedly - more later)
I tested between 3-4 frames from the moment of an 'incident' to pressing a switch to stop the measuring clock (a frame is 1/30 of a second so my reaction time was between 90-120 milliseconds).
Now, the average 20-something year old will have a reaction time approaching 10 frames (300 milliseconds), and as we age our reaction times slows further.
How did I achieve such good results?
Because I 'anticipated' the future' in that I knew what the incident would be and correctly guessed when it would happen. Later in life I learned to delay my action (press the button) by a fixed amount of time (10 frames -living in the past) and advancing (pushing the past into the future) whatever I was working with by that 10 frame delay, so that the moment I 'marked' an event (by pressing a switch) would be closer to the actual event. (the "incidents" was marking points on media playback to make edits)
Note: At my current stage of life I'm guessing my reaction time is
too close
to a full second or
two.
Which leads me to the joys of using a motor for a brake on an ebike/trike. By the time I react to an incident that requires the use of brakes, the motor's full braking force happens instantly, compensating my "getting around to doing something" ...somewhat.
...and now back to planet earth.