This was going to be a very simple entry for SuperDad, to show how our bikes hang off the spiffy new rack on the back of the beluga. See, here they are, bare rack, rotated rack with two bikes. I lost interest before I got to the third bike. Please note the tiny silver bit on the back of the beluga. It will be important later.
So. There. Its a rack. It folds flat when I'm not using it, it will fold out from the bottom when I need to get into the back end, and then folds up and holds 4 bikes. Even the gnarly little ones.
Today, I took the Things to a recreation area not too far from here, for some riparian cycling. It was delightful, except for the nagging feeling I had the entire time. That would be the feeling that was desperately trying to get my attention to tell me I had left my cell phone AND camera on the little back step on the back of the beluga, while I was taking the pictures. The last pictures.
Its very sad.
After we got home, and I made triple sure I hadn't left them in the house somewhere, that I had indeed lost my mind, I commenced looking around the street. Sigh. Right at the end of the driveway, a Friendly Gardener had found my cell phone, and returned it to me when he saw my unusual interest in the asphalt (I'm a collector!).
Verdict: Cell phone: back is completely destroyed, camera ripped off. And yet, it seems to be operational. All damage was on the back, the front is perfect. I can duct tape it. I am SuperDad's daughter. The camera was superfluous anyway. Look, even the flower sticker Thing 2 put on it survived. Its charging. Go figure.
Sadly, Friendly Gardener had not seen camera-shaped bits around, (that would be too easy), so I wandered up and down the street for a while. I finally found it around the corner about 100 yards. How it stayed up on the bumper that long I can't imagine, I'm sure it was very frightened. Some kind soul had put it on the curb, where I found it with its battered and broken case.
Verdict: Camera: strangely, still kinda operational, in a 70's 110 sort of way. Sadly, the lcd on the back is deadsville, in a mixed-up multicolored shards of glass kind of way. Also, the case is all kinds of wonky, scratched and just crazy dented. However, it still takes pictures, as long as you don't want to see them , or zoom in. I'm amazed. It focused just fine to take this photo of an incredulous Thing 2:
So, the takeaway today? We had a nice bike ride.
Canon and Motorola make fantastic products.
I am an idiot.
So. There. Its a rack. It folds flat when I'm not using it, it will fold out from the bottom when I need to get into the back end, and then folds up and holds 4 bikes. Even the gnarly little ones.
Today, I took the Things to a recreation area not too far from here, for some riparian cycling. It was delightful, except for the nagging feeling I had the entire time. That would be the feeling that was desperately trying to get my attention to tell me I had left my cell phone AND camera on the little back step on the back of the beluga, while I was taking the pictures. The last pictures.
Its very sad.
After we got home, and I made triple sure I hadn't left them in the house somewhere, that I had indeed lost my mind, I commenced looking around the street. Sigh. Right at the end of the driveway, a Friendly Gardener had found my cell phone, and returned it to me when he saw my unusual interest in the asphalt (I'm a collector!).
Verdict: Cell phone: back is completely destroyed, camera ripped off. And yet, it seems to be operational. All damage was on the back, the front is perfect. I can duct tape it. I am SuperDad's daughter. The camera was superfluous anyway. Look, even the flower sticker Thing 2 put on it survived. Its charging. Go figure.
Sadly, Friendly Gardener had not seen camera-shaped bits around, (that would be too easy), so I wandered up and down the street for a while. I finally found it around the corner about 100 yards. How it stayed up on the bumper that long I can't imagine, I'm sure it was very frightened. Some kind soul had put it on the curb, where I found it with its battered and broken case.
Verdict: Camera: strangely, still kinda operational, in a 70's 110 sort of way. Sadly, the lcd on the back is deadsville, in a mixed-up multicolored shards of glass kind of way. Also, the case is all kinds of wonky, scratched and just crazy dented. However, it still takes pictures, as long as you don't want to see them , or zoom in. I'm amazed. It focused just fine to take this photo of an incredulous Thing 2:
So, the takeaway today? We had a nice bike ride.
Canon and Motorola make fantastic products.
I am an idiot.
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