You're my hero, cradle robber. I'm a new member of the bad knees club.

My advice is to forget brand names at this point. What's most important is getting the right kind of bike for the kind of riding you intend to do. That might well be a hybrid like the Fuji Absolute 1.0 (which looks pretty sweet), but you should check out some others (BTW, you can get that bike for about $600 on line, so you can probably do better than $900 from your LBS (that's "local bike shop"). And I'd advise making the purchase at an LBS, as a good one is like a good car mechanic ... very nice to have.

FWIW, with respect to that Trek ... I'm not at all a fan of bikes intended for road use having shock absorbing forks (like an MTB). Unless you plan to do a lot of off-pavement riding, that's a lot of weight for nothing.

What kind of riding to do you intend to do? What kind of distances and on what kind of surfaces?