Brisk ride in today. My wife is still riding her road bike, and I think I'll switch back to skinny tires tomorrow, as there is no snow in the forecast and the ice is sublimating away. I really had to struggle to keep up with her today. She beat me to 8 St., 17 Ave. and would have dropped me if it weren't for all the peds crossing 8th. We shared a quick kiss illuminated by the headlights of the cars all around us in traffic, then departed for our respective workplaces. [Awwwwww!]

Just before I got to my designated parking facility, an SUV [long and dark, shiny and black] stopped abruptly in the right lane. I went to the left, then a Benz minivan cuts across from the far right ahead of me. Thanks! Hard on the brakes, I didn't see if my spiked tires threw up any sparks on the pavement. I tailed the Benz into the parking garage and then blew by him/her at the gate.