Weekend write-up

Had a great time at rillaith's place - lots of games, including a mammoth Munchkin session, and also got to put a few more faces to names.

There's a trend forming here. I keep spending my weekends outside of London:
In the last few weeks I've been to Chideock, Surbiton, Cambridge, and Tadley.
I'm certainly putting a good few miles onto the bike lately - I didn't think I'd hit the 16,000 mile service until next year, as I assumed I wouldn't be riding it much until after winter. .. but it's almost due it now.

Another downside to these extremely short days: I don't particularly like riding on motorways in the dark for long periods; it's just less pleasant. It is, however, better than the alternatives - ie. my arch-nemesis, public transport.

I noticed that the GPS receiver works better once you're outside of ultra-urban areas. Here, all the tall buildings block the satellite signals that are lower on the horizon, and so the triangulation is less accurate when you're only using signals that are right overhead. I imagine that fact that my receiver isn't much larger than a matchbox doesn't help - it must have a tiny antenna in there.
Still seems to do the job though.