According to the San Diego Daily Transcript, it will soon be illegal to rent out "three or more rooms [that] are rented individually or separately, to tenants under separate rental agreements."

Is my household the type of situation they are trying to prevent? We have two cars parked on street - which we are able to do without parking in front of any neighbors' homes. The house is decently maintained, we don't produce an excess of noise, and there is no constant stream of people -- most people are probably unaware that the house is rented out to four separate adults.

This is an ordinance designed to mitigate a very real problem existing in some neighborhoods -- but as it is worded, it will affect many individuals whose living situation poses no nuisance to their neighborhoods.

Fortunately, by the time it goes into effect, housing prices will likely have dropped enough that I should be able to afford a place to live. Heck, apart from the down payment, I think can afford something now.

Lower-priced homes have dropped 30% in inflation-adjusted value since their peak in 2005. To put it another way: prices had increased to 270% of their historic average prices; they've dropped to about 186% of their historic prices.

Today's ride started out as basic super loop, except I turned left on Carmel Valley Road and biked along the coast to Encinitas. I turned around at Raul's Authenic Mexican Food, and got a Carne Asada Burrito. It was OK, but I wouldn't go there again.

On the way back, before going down the hill into Del Mar, it popped into my head: Why not take Via De La Valle to El Camino Real to finish the superloop?

Well there are a couple reasons why not: Via de la Valle, while mostly a very good road, has about a half mile of stoplight, turn lane onto freeway, stoplight another turn lane onto freeway, stoplight exit off freeway, stoplight, turnlane into mall, stoplight stoplight stoplight -- all with lots of traffic. Plus, El Camino Real starts out very narrow: There's no bike lane, and no shoulder. You gotta right straight and narrow to avoid plowing off the road. And then it turns into a pretty big hill -- bigger than I remember from driving it!

By the time I resumed the Superloop, I was Superpooped. I had to keep a much slower pace than last week, heart-rate wise (usually about 160 instead of 175).

Total Milage according to bike computer: 40.5 Total Milage according to GMaps Pedometer: 40.25 Average Speed: 12mph Max Speed: 38.5 Calories burned, according to my heart monitor watch: 3371

Time to take a nap and fix my dad's router....

Happy Pi Day, one and all! This is a chance for you to memorize that most useful of numbers: Pi! Below, I've split it up into the mental chunks I use. Some of them have mnemonics built in, or are contextually related to the previous chunk: Sharing digits in the same place, counts that match numbers in the last segments. In some, the first digit is the sum of subsequent digits, or the last digit is the sum of preceding digits. Some have little patterns, perhaps palindromes or alternating digits descending; some have patterns so vague they don't have any real significance. Some were tougher; you just gotta memorize them. So, say it with me:

3. 14 15 (add the 1 to the 14) 9265 (again ends in 5) 35 8979 323 (Palindrome) 846 264 (46 reversed; 64 is 8 ^ 2) 338 3279 50288 41 971 693 993 (at end 93 is repeated; first digit taken from chunk before preceding chunk) 7510 59209 74 944 592 307 8164 (8 squared is 64) 062 862 08998 (starts with the first digits of the preceding two chunks, then palindromes) 6280 (6+2 = 8) 348 253 4211 (4,2,1 is 2^i for i = 2...0). 706 79 8214 (again, powers of two, with the 4 out of order) 808 651 32823 (palindrome) 06647

I rode more or less the same route today, but with a few variations. I had biked a mile before I realized I forgot my water bottles. Fairly stupid of me. Secondly, I took Black Mountain Road up to its end, to add on some miles. Total miles: 28.

Today, California officially passes its benchmark for annual snowfall: We have 100% of the average April 1st snowpack (101% actually). No drought this year, though we may suffer due to an endangered fish