From the bike co-op email list:
“Pedal People” – delivery and garbage retrieval via bicycle trailer.

Got to the 50’s I b’lieve. I switched the Xtracycle for teh Trek at the bike shop, and took the Trek out for 50 morning miles. Contemplated getting out earlier for more but … 50 was enough, especially since then I hopped on the Folder and rode back out to the bike shop and tossed it onto the Xtra and rode thme both back to the garage. Forgot the foam but I think it went okay (didn’t see any dings). then rode the folder here, rode the trek back and put *it* in the garage, and rode the Xtra back here. Grand total- 63 miles, or my second metric of the year. Bike shop was happily busy (but not too busy for howdies). People shoppoing for BICYCLES – even saw one person trying out a lime, eh?
50 miles is a lot longer in March than it is in July.

It’s time to embed. (As the family response to any given line goes, “that’s what they said after the bed broke!”)

Left late and saw different vanity tags. CRKLNRS

I gotta say… on the radio, Neil DIamond SENT me. I remember being ready to cry on the way home from swim team practice and “Song Sung Blue” played and … I was ecstatic. Made me realize then and there the utterly transient nature of emotions… but every time I picked up a Neil Diamond album, the picture would make me want to barf and I’d put it down. But you know, had I actually been at a live performance…

Fresh from the CCB list (thanx, Cynthia!) :

Simple Cycling Solutions
http://www.planetizen.com/node/30500 – an interesting angle on planning and including bicycles. Actually… a vehicular cyclist’s worst nightmare in many ways… “In Europe, where they do things better, cycles have their own lanes on the sidewalks (not in the streets — duh)…” and “…one of the greatest impediments to practical cycling centers not on roads but on threads. The ride from my apartment to the bus that would take me to work is a half-mile downhill. In a business suit, it might as well be 1,000 miles of open ocean.”

Blithe indefensible utterings that perpetuate dangerous myths…

Win a dahon on the other side of the pond – new organization to encourage less congestive travel modes.
http://www.acttravelwise.org/competition

Mundane commute today. Paralleled somebody who was doing the road-instead-of-walkway through campus, but he got ahead when a Facilities & Services truck hopped on the walkway. I got off and walked the bike on the pathway in the name of predictability (and being a bicycle on a sidewalk, no matter how wide), and got a wave from the cell-phone-using driver.
I forgot… on Friday’s Eastbound cruise I saw a white dove. Last time I saw a white dove was the day after Pete’s mom passed. Odd

Air Bags for the Body. Hmmm….

In The Big Apple (not my new computer; that’s a little one!) seems the REverend Billy’s CHurch of Stop Shopping has morphed into Church of Stop Driving.

I can see movies now, ’cause I sprang a grand for a new laptop. Smaller, which I like. Mac, which I don’t. Macs are made for people who want to do exactly what the computer “knows” you want to do. If I don’t happen to *want* to hear chirping birds from my computer, there’s no “intuitive” way to shut the dang noise off. (I don’t ike artificial sweeteners; I don’t like artificial chirping birds.) Yes, I’m going to spring for the Windows operating system (so I can do Camtasia, among other things.

Rode the Xtra out for a short burst yesterday … intervals with cans, whcih are a heck of a lot harder to get without a kickstand Then the Fire for a little get-out-of-the-house loop. Today there are snow showers, so I think I’ll let the hyper build and motivate me for morning rides during the week.

Happy Easter (I’m dreaming of a white Easter ?!?)

Snork, must edit to add that welp, it was the Specialized web page chirping at me. Don’t know if that’s limited to their “women’s” pages or not. Close the page, the noise stops. Huzzah.

Welp, the computer I’m on is too old to handle it, but it seems somebody’s posted a youtube of “First day of spring,” and better late than never
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYWaT_ryzH8