***I keep track of my non-car commutes on the plastic covering my pantry window. Classy, eh?***
This just in: Within the next week or two, this blog will be unsearchable through search engines--that means google and stuff, kids. So in theory at least, you won't be able to google or bing or anything "Bernie's Blog" and find mention of it. I need to maintain some sort of privacy from the evil-doers in the universe, eh. So, if you usually search to get here, you need to memorize http://www.bernietheblackdog.blogspot.com/, bookmark it, or you can "Like" the Bernie's Blog page on Facebook (there's a button on this page to do that) then access it through there whenever your precious heart desires.
Speaking of precious hearts, last year, calendar year 2010, I set a goal of transporting myself to work in a manner other than a car 100 times. I made it, barely . . . but I made it. So as 2011 approached, I said, "Chad, how can you top that? Had you not been broken into a million little pieces in December 2010, you would've creamed 100, not to mention you didn't set this goal until February 2010--you got a late start. How can you do more, reasonably?"
This is what I came up with: For 2011, I would transport myself by means other than car (walk, bike, transit) 150 times--to anywhere and everywhere, not just work. Basically, my criteria is, if you walk, bike, transit anywhere you would normally drive to, it counts. Like, walking up to my corner coffee shop does not count, because I always walk there. For the record as well, a trip is a round-trip--each way does not count as a tick off the 150. Each round-trip does.
Today I hit 85, which is pretty good considering I was still broken into a million little pieces in January and February, thus manged to only have ONE non-car trip over those two months. It was cold and snowy, too, but that's a pussy of an excuse. As I chronicled here around that time, I did not have my mojo. And no mojo means doubling your commute time while standing in the freezing cold is not likely to happen. And happen it did not.
So kids, let's review this important update of a post:
- Soon you will no longer be able to use a search engine to find this blog.
- I have hit 85 out of 150 in my goal to not be an environmental terrorist.
- I am whole.
Peace.
