Ride in was interesting b/c of two things:

1) Ended up in a short line of myself and two other commters. The woman in front passed me at an intersection. I followed behind her and another commuter came up behind me. At a multi-car jam, she slowed, signalled left to get around traffic and went around. The commuter behind me followed her. Meanwhile, my keen instincts picked up a good path around the traffic to my right, so I squeezed between two cars and shot forward with a clear path for a block. I thought to myself of the other two commuters, "Suckers!". What's interesting is that I actually thought this while riding my bike. Usually, I reserve this thought for driving when I get ahead of someone trying to get the jump on me and they grab the wrong lane and get stuck.

2) As I was widening my lead over the other two commuters and squeezing along a slowly moving bus and a truck w/ about 3" to spare on either side and moving at about 15 mph, as I got to the front of the bus, a ped jumps out in front of me causing me to slam on the brakes, skid and take away my beautiful momentum. I don't think the ped realized how close he came to getting creamed. Any faster and I wouldn't have had time to react.

The rest of the ride was the usual zig-zag and squeeze with occasional ped dodging. Tonight is the extra long way home since I have to run some errands downtown before heading home uptown. Yay me!