Protection

I've felt out of sorts all day today thanks to the higher strength meds that seem to be kicking in a bit now.  In fairness I haven't had many headaches but I've sure had some wild dreams and slept like it's going out of fashion.  It perhaps didn't help that it's been windy all day and rained on and off, "never long wet, never long dry" except instead of pretty mackerel sky all we had was an unyielding grey mass with a few occasional holes for the sun to shine through.

Apart from lots of reading, cutting some strips of helicopter tape was about as productive as I got today.  These have gone on my bike's seat stays and the seat tube to help protect the paint from being scraped every time I park it against a Sheffield stand, like, every time I go shopping.  I actually bought the stuff to put on Fidra's panniers, to protect the paint from my heels every time I climb off, but I haven't made the paper templates yet.

I never knew that 3M is actually named for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.  They didn't do well at the mining part but made great sandpaper before going into chemicals.