Oh well.
Turns out that the snow wasn’t as intense as predicted, so by the time I went up to the lab, there was barely enough snow to ride through. Didn’t stop me from falling before I got out of the apartment complex parking lot, though. The lack of clear roads combined with the low volume of traffic, coupled with the just-above-freezing temperatures meant that the vehicle tracks were bare road surrounded by wet snow that had partially frozen. In short, a bad place to try to turn on a bike at slow speed.
That night (Wednesday) the same friend and I wandered down to the other end of town for beer and music. On the way back, he ended up with a flat tire and had to walk ~5 miles back to his apartment. He spent the next day sleeping and fixing both that tire, which he’d taken home with him, and the other tire, which he’d left at the lab and discovered was flat the next morning.
In other news, spring break is over, and I’m back in the swing of things. I have a few semester project-type assignments due this week, plus an exam in one of my two classes. I will be very happy when I don’t have to deal with classes anymore.