The sky was a perfect blue, with fluffy white clouds, it was cool and breezy--perfect bike weather! I took the long way to work.

There were big grasshoppers all over the road--the huge brown ones that fly away on black and yellow wings when you get too close. So many that when I saw a 14-inch-long piece of bark on the road, something in my subconsious said, "Whoa, now THERE'S a big grasshopper!" (Yeah, yeah, the rest of my brain is still laughing at those cells.) Also saw a couple of groundhogs--they're out scarfing down everything in sight in preparation for winter, I guess. I was sorry to get to the end of that ride.

The way home was nice, too. My headlight was fading badly halfway home (those cheap batteries I used in a pinch last time!) and I had to stop and change them in the dark. CatEyes are pretty simple, fortunately, and I was soon on my way again.

Saw some cyclists getting honked at today: two boys riding abreast, the wrong way down the highway, with no lights in the dark. Morons.