Originally Posted by Toasted
It's okay to throw things into the big black and yellow spider's web, but never, EVER, under any circumstances, should you throw something at a big white spider that looks just like a big yellow spider only white.
i'll never rest until i hear why. the only thing i can think of is that it chased you.
such a great ride this morning. clear and colder than yesterday, but still not so cold anything hurts. i'm getting so hooked on the feeling of being warm and sweaty, but with cool/cold air on my skin. coming home also lovely - i think clear, but it was heading for dusk again so i'm not sure.
bunch of things:
- stopped on the bridge approach to clear away a huge old half-a-six-gallon plastic jug or something that was half over the path. i saw it yesterday on my way home and remembered thinking i was sure glad not to have got caught up in it.
- two very-nice driver-interactions this morning: people who stopped to give me my right of way and looked like doing it made their own mornings happier for them. out here it seems like anyone in a car could just as easily be on a bike; we don't have quite the same degree of divide other people are suffering from. makes me all chirpy and pollyanna-ish. then to make up for it i got my first honker, on one of the nice quiet roads . . . go know.
- slightly surreal interaction with someone else at my work as i ambled over from the shower. he was draped over the balcony with his coffee mug, and it turned out he was having an 'awesome' day because his morning drive had only taken x long today. i'm not ready to come on all 'i am bike' yet, so i was somewhat at a loss for words to add to the conversation. hmm.
- kid at the approach to my lovely-green-stretch this afternoon; the stretch happens just behind a housing/condo complex. he was on a bike too, and it was all 'i'll race you! wanna race?' as soon as he saw me. i felt like a meany, but i said no. on that skinny little track i wasn't sure i could trust myself to safely react to a 10-year-old crossing suddenly in front of me or something.
- still trying to get up and get out earlier than i have been. it's not significantly interfering with my life, but i just like the ahead-of-the-game feeling i get from starting work sometime before the prescribed 9 o'clock. doesn't seem like fast showers are in my repertoire, so it will have to come from the other side.
- just taking it as it comes this week. end of the week i'll see how i feel and see if i want to set something to try and aim for.
songs of the day for most of the day: navigator (pogues), and tie me at the crossroads (bruce cockburn). yee-hah.