hmm. cool and clear this morning, with just enough of just the right kind of cloud to keep the sun out of my eyes, or else maybe we're getting that accelerated shortening of the days or something. didn't notice much sun at all on my way south, but when i came off the bridge and turned west, it was like this impression that the sun had just broken through as i came into the clear, just for me. suddenly all this light around and ahead of me; it was great.

this week's focus is all about making it easy. how easy can it be? let's find out. something about this different approach is just killing that knee, and really i guess i 'should' have given it a day off. the trouble with 'easy' is that you can keep it up so much longer and you rest so much less. but i'd already done monday-tuesday-wednesday, so what's the point of taking a break so late in the week? just means i'd come back in time for a single ride before the weekend gives me a break anyway. it's frustrating, because everything else about it is going so well. this week i'm mixed up between wanting to go ahead anyway, and starting to worry about it a bit. pressure bandages in the weekend forecast, i think, then we'll see. i want this month to work out for me.

coming home also nice. the way things have been, i leave work around 7 pm. dark, sure, but the compensation is much less traffic, and the traffic there is is not the rush-hour kind. i did my last remaining piece of experimentation tonight. coming off the bridge on my side, instead of staying on the bridge road and walking across three separate exit/entrance lanes and then biking up the sidewalks for a couple of blocks to the crossover light, i followed the first curve around to under the bridge and then over to join the bike path at the same point where i leave it in the mornings. i think i'll keep doing that, actually. it's got one ugly bit, but just a different version of ugly from what i already had. the rest seems to be a much nicer way to go. roll on friday.

songs: the grey funnel line, june tabor, and navigator, the pogues.