mixed bag

Today I learned that:

• I can hike 11 miles up and down a 1375 ft hill. I thought I was much too out of shape to even attempt such a thing, but I think the slope saved me. Biking muscles will get you uphill, so you're only really on your own going downhill.
• In paragraph six, this article (warning: bad news) is only one more spelling error away from having an actual supervillian as the perpetrator.
• If tour buses continue to deliver nervous tourists to the Castro district in San Francisco, where they stare at people like they're a zoo exhibit and don't even buy anything, they will likely start being met by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.