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Superilla Mar 1, 2024

Crazy day of weather; you could literally see the cold front sweep down across Calgary. The gif below is from 1 to 2 PM; the green stations are mostly reporting +10 or +11°C and the blue ones are reporting in the range of -5°C; 15 degrees of change and covering the ~40km shown by the map in an hour. And now it's snowy and whiteout conditions.

Superilla Dec 24, 2023

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Back at my mom's place, in the office in the guest bedroom. Found a statement comforter this year.

Superilla Nov 6, 2023

A lovely late fall Sunday conspired with my e-trike to give me enough light to ride out to Bowmont Park for the first time. Hard to top that!

Superilla Sep 30, 2023

Seat fabric on the Porto metro, on the way to the airport. Pretty plain Jane, you ask me. This is not what they looked like during the trip, when they were packed with a sweltering, miserable United Nations of tourists as the train ran at 30 km/h without A/C most of the way, running 10 minutes late on a 27 minute journey. I suspect the heat (30°C - historical average high for today is 21°C) may have played havoc with the electrical system.

But its still cheaper, better for the planet and probably (given the traffic) faster.

Superilla Sep 27, 2023

Continuing the theme on a happier note, the lovely seats in a regional train up Portugal's Douro valley into wine country. 🚂🍷 Per the always useful site of @seatsixtyone this car is Swiss-built because of the wide opening windows.

Superilla Sep 25, 2023

This is supposed to be the seat fabric from a high-speed Alfa Pendular train in Portugal; since that's what we booked and paid for. In fact, it's the floor of a suburban slow train to Porto that is rapidly approaching crush capacity. The people who are sitting on the floor are the lucky ones.

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Superilla Sep 21, 2023

Update: the Lisbon metro trains appear to have no fabric at all, with Portugal's beloved cork as the covering instead (properly sealed one assumes). 🚇

Superilla Sep 21, 2023

I should toot more. Here's my first discovery of the day: Lisbon has great fabric on their bus seats! 🚌

Superilla Apr 6, 2023

I'm just running errands, but it was a good reason to get my trusty steed ready from a winter's rest.

Superilla Jan 3, 2023

I was helped by a traced outline and a friendly video tutorial, but I'm still pretty proud of my second-ever watercolor painting.