This is quickly shaping up to be one of the snowiest winters on record. We’ve got a good start to surpassing the record snows we got last year. The National Weather Service says we’ve gotten 17 inches of snow this year, and they’re predicting that we could get a foot or more in the next [...]
Yesterday was a long day for Julie and I. We’ve recently joined the Sunday Night shift, and by happenstance, we both also had chair evac training. As a candidate, the candidates would need more instruction than the veteran patrollers, and as an instructor, I figured it’d be fun to work with this years candidate class. [...]
Madison is getting some truly unseasonable weather this week, as we managed to get get freezing drizzle, below-zero temperatures and enough snow to call a snow emergency in the space of about three days. My commuter bike is a Surly Long Haul Trucker. It’s a great bike, but the stock tires are mediocre for touring, [...]
Anyone who rides a bike on the streets has had at least one encounter with an enraged driver, and a few of us have even suffered bodily harm as a result; but a recent story in the Capitol Times suggests that tensions can be high within our own ranks. The story suggests that a gentleman [...]
