I was running about 15 minutes late this morning, but gained about 5 minutes of that time back comparing it to my past arrival times at work. Got chased by dogs yesterday going home, as well as having a couple of minor mechanical issues that needed to be addressed.
Traffic was slightly heavier this morning, but I have to say that for the most part in my neck of the woods drivers are very courteous (or at least tolerant) from what I have seen so far. But my new personal pet peeve is garbage cans- those huge flip-top black ones. For some reason several people along the highway I ride feel it necessary to not only leave them out for days on end, but to not have any reflective material on them and to position them so that they are within three inches of the traffic lane to the left and the large eroded pot hole leading to a drainage ditch behind them to the right.