Friday Preparations: a Healthy Supply of Clothes

In yesterday's post, I noted that I can't quite get all the way to Rockville from Silver Spring by using a RideOn bus - only as far as Twinbrook.  This leaves a roughly 2.5 mile missing piece of the commute that I intend to fill in either with running or biking.  My plan is to run this distance starting out - and scope out the route to see if it's bikeable as well.

Given that I'm beginning this endeavor in going carless in the last week of September, I was hoping the temperatures would finally be cooled off from this summer's ridiculousness.  Looks like I got my wish, and then some:  the weather forecast for Monday is 69º and showers.  An awesome kick off, to be sure.  If it's raining, I may just grab an unbrella and take the Q.

My clothes, hanging in a (mostly)
unused supply closet.

But either way - I'll need to have a supply of work clothes handy so that once I've run or biked a few miles I can shower (if need be) and change.  So this morning, I brought in enough work clothes to last me two weeks.  Notice I've got 10 shirts and several pairs of pants shoved into the corner of a supply closet, as I'm trying to minimize the footprint this endeavor has on my co-workers as much as possible, out of due respect for them.  Also, I got myself into hot water (no pun intended) last week after accidentally leaving a towel in our floor's miniscule bathroom when I took a shower after a between-work-and-evening-meeting run around Rockville.  The towel had been there for several days until an anonymous complainant reported it to the Council's operations specialist - and, since I'm a nice guy, I fessed up and apologized.  So I'm feeling like I've already used my showering-at-work mulligan among my co-workers.

It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction my efforts garner among the fifth and sixth floors - for now I think I'll play this on the DL and see if anyone even takes notice...