yay, at least one hoopy frood who got it. now i just need me some red dwarf people, and i'll be almost reconciled to the end of baseball for 2005. oh, the nights will get long and dark now until spring comes around.

amazing terrific morning ride in, in spite of 14 innings robbing me of some sleep last night. cold cold - eh, not really, but cold enough to have that wonderful inside-of-a-freezer smell that is one of my favourite smells in the world. i forgot to check the digital signboard but it felt like about 3 degrees. got passed (on the left) by someone else quite early; i heard his gears clashing so had lots of warning. he said hi as he went by and i said 'nice shirt!' to his back - which it was. neon green is the next colour i want; i could see him in front of me all the way no matter how far ahead he got. actually, he never got very far, just far enough to push all the slow light buttons for me at intersections. i followed in his tracks for the approach to the bridge and was emboldened to do what he did and see if it works better than what i do (it does). seemed like the nice kind of commuter, so i didn't think he would mind me picking his brains like that.

the only other feature of the morning was that i made my first try at the second-last remaining logistical trick: crossing the exit lane off the bridge and taking the next lane over, which is the first one that goes straight through at the light. as opposed to just continuing from the mup to the sidewalk until i get to the light and then turning pedestrian to get across and waiting for another light cycle until it's clear to merge back off the sidewalk into the road. i think the only one left now is merging over into the left-turn lane a mile or so further on. i'm giving myself lots of time for that one.

coming home was different. stayed to watch game 4 (break my heart) at 6 pm and didn't leave until 9:15. tired and hungry by then and been working on automation tools all day in the area that's super-air conditioned for some stupid reason, so i type with one hand with the other one shoved underneath me. not really in bike mode too much by the time i left. but it was nice in spite of being harder than i'd wanted it to be, and so traffic-free that i had patches where i could just watch the sky in between watching the road. i like that a lot. think my tires need air.

my brain thinks it's thursday. feels like another cold day tomorrow, but ahhhhhh. i bought myself thermal socks.