I am in the process of forming a new habit and that habit is to cycle on Saturday mornings. In cycling on Saturday mornings I keep Saturday afternoon free for other things. I can take care of washing clothes and more. It also gives me time to rest and recover before Sunday.

By accident I signed up for a hike and now I am torn between going for the hike, which requires trains, and potentially meeting two or three people, or sticking to my usual plan of going for a bike ride.

Yesterday I drove to an event in Geneva and I parked at the P&R étoile. I went by car for a simple reason. I wanted the trip home to be fast and efficient. It worked. What wasn’t fast and efficient was the drive into Geneva.

I left with at least one and a half hours of time to get to my destination but got to the event with just three minutes to spare. The journey time that takes half an hour out of peak traffic takes one hour or more during rush hour.

Yesterday evening I was at a talk about AI. The person had written an AI agent that scrapes news sources for information, and reads reports, and then provides a summary of this information as a report.

We often think of AI as a chat where we ask a question, and then get an answer. This does work well, when you do something once, or twice. If you do something a dozen times per day then agents become interesting.

This morning I ran towards the lake. If I had continued going west I could have gone to the Piscine De Colovray, had a swim, and then walked home or taken a publibike, once I was tired enough. In fact I live along the course for the Nyon Triathlon so I could easily train for the triathlon without needing to use a car.

I believe that I suffer from Rhume des Foins (hayfever) so when I went to sleep congested, and woke up congested I thought “There’s no way I’m doing that 10km run. I checked what my Garmin watch recommended as a run and when I saw that the recommendation was a 35 minute run I grabbed the chance. Even with pollen a 35 minute run is comfortable.

This weekend I went for two Meetup.com events. The first was a one hundred and twenty kilometre bike ride and the second was a one thousand four hundred metre climb from Montreux to the Dent De Jaman.

The Ride to Vuache

With the bike rides there was a choice of two rides. The first was to Hermance. The second was around the Vuache mountain. I chose the Vuache mountain because this ride was new to me. I have ridden into Geneva, but only once to Western Geneva, so for me this was an exploratory ride.

Today I went for a long hike after going for a long bike ride yesterday. I am pretty tired. I shared three photos that were directly relevant to a group’s activities and they were deleted. I wouldn’t mind, if they were not linked to the community, and to an activity organised by the person that invited us to do this activity. I do mind, when it was relevant to that organiser, but also to the community.

Within 31-34 minutes you can be in Geneva-Eaux-Vives by the RE33 train. Yesterday I tested it on the way back from Silicon Chalet Event 39 about Infrastructure as Code and Security, a combination for success. The talks were interesting and informative. It’s an opportunity to see people from the Geneva tech scene.

For years I didn’t want to go to Geneva because by train and car it’s fine to get close to Geneva, but it’s less convenient to get from A to B. With a car it’s fast to get close to Geneva but then you hit traffic lights, and parking fees, and the car becomes a nuisance rather than an asset.

It’s very easy to fall into a routine. Our routines can revolve around cycling, hiking, work, scuba diving and more. It can also revolve around local walks and more.

This weekend I saw the chance to go for an overnight bivouac and I am not tempted. I saw the chance to cycle through vineyards and drink wine, and I am not tempted. I saw the opportunity to hike around Interlarken and I am not tempted.

Yesterday I went to Geneva early. In the process I dropped into the GoSocial Co-working event at Ruby Hotel, before then walking towards the Orthodox church in Geneva. The doors were open so I visited the building. It smelled of incense and someone was cleaning.

Co-working

There is a GoSocial group on Whatsapp that often meets once to twice per week to do some co-working with other people, rather than in solitude. A few weeks ago I drove to Geneva to meet the group but my introversion got the better of me so I got equipment for hiking instead.

I rarely go to Geneva for two reasons. The first is that there is rarely a compelling reason to go into Geneva, except for work related things. The second reason is that Geneva is expensive to get into.

To get to Geneva and back, by train, will cost 9.40 CHF. According to a parking cost simulator the price comes to 9.50 for parking a petrol car, and five CHF to park an electric car. I think that this is as well as the cost of charging the EV.