This rider was seen cruising Lil’ Nas X style on Saturday in V.M. Ybor, an eight-minute drive south of where we live.
Note that he’s wearing a toque/knit cap. That’s because it was a relatively brisk 27° C/80° F that day.
Category: Tampa Bay
Hey Tampa Bay! Are you a looking for a nice office that you can take on the road with you? If so, you might be interested in this little gem that appeared on Facebook Marketplace this afternoon — something the seller calls “2020 The Mobile Workspace”, and is willing to part with, for the sum of $9,600.
From the seller’s description:
Mobile Office built for 1-2 people with all the luxuries of a normal office while still has the full accessibility of 6FT x 12 FT of interior space for storage/transportation of your business needs. This also accommodates a standard queen sized bed with room to spare.
This trailer can run interior lights, refrigerator, TV, laptop charger, stereo, and sink COMPLETELY on solar/battery (off-grid). Refrigerator runs off of 12V so can run 24/7 if parked in sun.
Here’s what it looks like when you open the rear gate doors:
And here’s what you’ll find inside:
It’s a pretty decent-looking workspace:
The seller listed these features:
- 3/4” High efficiency Insulation
- 27” IPS LED HD LG Monitor (on extension swivel mount)
- 10,000 BTU Air Conditioner
- Microwave
- Coffee Maker
- All-in-one Cannon Printer
- 12V Large Deep Cycle Battery
- 200 Watt Solar Panel -6 LED Interior Lights
- 2 Rockford Fosgate Speakers (Front and Rear)
- Bluetooth Stereo
- 1500W DC to AC Inverter (120V Power on Battery)
- Built-in Battery Charger (When connected to shore power)
- Marine Grade Control Panel (W/USB chargers)
- Standard 120V Hook-Up
Here’s a view of the top of the rig, where the solar panels are located:
Here are more views of the office:
This might be a good portable office for a field engineer, construction manager, or general contractor. Maybe you’re a digital nomad living the RV life and need a little extra space in which to work (if your RV has the towing capacity). Or perhaps you’re in sales or marketing and need a portable showroom. Or maybe you’re trying to work from home and it’s too small for you to set up a home workspace.
Interested? You can contact the seller through their Facebook Marketplace posting.
I took this picture after having a couple of friends over for socially-distanced drinks in our front yard on Saturday night.
The temperature was a lovely 24° C (75° in Herr Doktor von Fahrenheit’s old-timey system), we had groovy jazz organ playing on the porch sound system, the company was excellent, and the string lights made our corner lot look so cheerful that we got compliments from the neighbors. (They’re also perfectly timed for Diwali!)
It was a lovely evening all ’round.
We saw this car on Saturday afternoon in Seminole Heights, going southbound on Nebraska.
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Yesterday’s bike ride
We’ve undergoing a period of cooler temperatures here in Tampa — and by cooler, I mean 20°C / 70°F in the late afternoon — which made yesterday’s 10K bike ride (something I do five or six days a week, schedule and weather permitting) a very pleasant one. I took some photos while cycling through Riverbend and Seminole Heights.
Here are the Riverbend photos, which I took while following the Hillsborough River south towards Hillsborough Avenue:
It was then time to cross the river over the bridge, which offers this view when looking north…
…then veer north to Hanna, and then east to Lake Roberta, where 4 circuits of the lake makes one mile. I’d already done more than 10 kilometers after those circuits, so I decided to hang out with the ducks for a few minutes.
Gentle Reader, let me introduce you to Lake Roberta’s biggest a-hole, who makes Canada geese look relaxed in comparison:
He has a gang of followers:
This duck is happy just to have a chance to relax:
I grabbed some last-minute groceries and started heading home. Seminole Heights is one of those tree-lined neighborhoods with a lot of houses built from the 1920s through the 1950s, where college-educated families and craft breweries can be easily found. There’s a clearly-established voting preference here…
The owners of the nearby Corner Club — the neighborhood’s dive bar, karaoke joint, and after-work hangout for folks to work at the nearby TECO branch — recently sold the place, but at least it will remain a bar and not get turned into condos:
Now back to the signs…
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Today at Bearss Groves
If you’re in Tampa and looking for pumpkins, our regular fruit/vegetable place, Bearss Groves, has plenty in stock! I got three “sugar pie” pumpkins for $10, and they’ll end up as part of dinner (mashed like potatoes, they make a great side dish). They’ve got plenty for carving or decorating as well.
I was there this morning, and their garden-grown squash selection was great! They had yellow and green zucchini…
…yellow squash…
…8-ball zucchini, which you can stuff with all kinds of things…
…and patty-pan squash (I got a couple pounds of these).
I saw this on this in Hampton Terrace during this morning’s 10K bike ride.
I think I’ll close this post with something you might not have seen: A scene from Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes that puts together Wu-Tang’s GZA, RZA, and Bill Murray at the same booth in a café: