Why I took the long way in this a.m. (besides the 17 mph tailwind) – love today’s Frazz

LOTS of mowing out there… afraid I arrived with bloodshot eyes and hair plastered to my head and … welp, I got a call from Wikipedia Central asking if they could photograph me as an example of “rode hard and put up wet.” Little extra time in the washroom helped… and it gets me close to 2100 miles for the year

Oh, I’m just too excited. A: I got foxmarks to work, so i have my work bookmarks on the home computer, and b: I hit this link to “LED safety lights” and I swear they dind’t have these before. Now I’m almost … forget almost, thanks to the dweeb on his cell phone who ran over my Big Honkin’ LIght when it bopped off the back the other day. I’m shoppin Was thinking of the red/blue alternating… but getting a red and a blue is cheaper, has more options… and it’s red and blue together in any form that has people automatically backin’ off

Nippy this a.m. but I kinda overdressed, especially since I decided to do those breathing exercises instead of leaving early and riding further… those breathing exercises that generate heat (does that mean I’m doing it right? Prolly not…) So I didn’t work too hard and just did 2 extra campus laps.

Raining now on the Xtra. I promise, I promise, I shall tend to it and clean it and earl it tonight.

Tomorrow a.m. I just might get out and check out the philo route for Sunday’s pedal power ride.

Went to the hardware store for paint to mark the Pedal Power route… yup, got some “thinner” (hopefully an appropriate kind), masking tape and … can’t remember what else now (2 quarts of fescue, too).
Stopped by the house to pick up the black paint (to erase mistakes ) and took a little cruise. Had a communication breakdown with the driver of a macho truck – my turn at the 4-way and I move forward… things are fine exce’t now the truck is, simply, aiming right at me. I did a bob and weave and the truck stopped and I turned to see what hostile foe was trying to intimidate me (in front of witnesses – even out at Old CHurch and Race, there were three or four cars at the intersection).
The woman driving lifted a hand in the timeless “I am unarmed and no thread” gesture… I suppose she had assumed I was turning left (she was, too – and thus our paths wouldn’t have crossed). Don’t know if she could read the basic fear in my eyes but I hope so… and I do suspect she’ll be hesitating just a little more at her next intersection.

Drifted on back… still four miles short of matching last April’s miles.

Hoping for decent weather next Sunday!

this is kinda what I was thinking of riding through C-U at the art ride. The bicycle is a natural for being visible and audible, yet covering territory to inform people of a group’s position about something. You can hear each other sing It’s a demonstration for better wages…

Here’s the last third of the Top Gear race across London. Go to Youtube and search top gear london race for the whole thing (in three chunks)… it’s culturaly unique. Which will get to the airport in rush hour first? Boat? Auto? Bicycle? Public transport?

Just a bit breezy! 31 mph (gusts to 40) … made for a fun charge down to the bike shop to get the skinny about marking the route for the Pedal Power ride.

Methinks the map will be of the Felt Tip Marker kind – finite technology.

The venerable orange Huffy next to mine on the bike rack was unattached when I went to the LBS… and still there when I got back, so I parked mine and draped my lock over it to add to the illusion.

Okay! As you can prob’ly see, I’ve attempted to make this thing subscribable-to.

Only thing is, when I tried to put the little icon up there, this blog wasn’t an optoin, so I had to copy the code; hence, it’s in a weird spot.

We’ll see. It’s sort of a test drive for my edumacational blog.

Somebody else has
Put haiku on every day
Did they copy me?

Must compete with them.
I will write not one but two!
(Until I get bored.)

But it’s not baiku since it’s not about the bike

But the 4/18 post at http://bicycle-diaries.blogspot.com/ is.

“Stumbleupon” bike site to peruse soon:

http://www.pedalpushersonline.com/index.php

Includes this article about Tara LLanes

(yes, it’s *definitely* more competition-oriented than I am, aiming at intimidated wannabees, per their “who are we:”
Dear Viewer

If you have ever …enjoyed breathing so hard you thought your lungs would shred, …, you belong here!

If you can still remember… on your hybrid … intimidated by those spandexed “Pros” with the clickey shoes and weird gloves, yeah you belong here too!

If you ride for a cause, or just…because, you belong here!
We welcome you! ” )

However, it’s time to be productive Perusing… later…