Consecutive commute #105 :

Rained pretty heavy during the night, and is supposed to start raining again this afternoon. Had a break in the rain on my way to work so while the pavement was still wet, I didn't have any weather problems outside of a moderate head wind. Looks like I may get soaked on the way home though.

Last week my wife got sick with a cold. Over the weekend my son came down with the same thing and missed the last two days of school. I started coming down with it on Monday night and by last night was feeling pretty rotten. Before I went to bed my wife was trying to convince me that I shouldn't be riding in the rain when I'm sick and I should drive the car, but then conceded and said, "I know you're going to ride no matter what." I reasoned that if I'm too sick to ride, then I'm too sick to go to work period. Felt a bit rugged when I first got up but actually the ride seemed to loosen up the congestion. Right now I'm not 100% but really not feeling too bad.

My front headlight on my rain bike was dead, so I swapped out the batteries before I left. It wasn't too long ago that I put those batteries in the thing. Then once the fresh batteries were installed I noticed that even in the "off" position the LEDs were just slightly illuminated. Not enough to be noticeable unless you're staring directly into the light, but it definitely was still lit. That would explain why the batteries drained down so fast. If I slightly unscrew the front cover the light goes out, so I guess that's what I'm doing now instead of using the switch. Still seems to work fine otherwise, I just can't turn it off.