not bad, considering a whole week off. well, a week off with occasional shorter trips just to remind myself how to do it. good times both ways too, and no particular evidence of jelly-legs. tomorrow may be the killer.

i have 11 work days left at this job. right ON! almost done, and i still haven't made up my mind how i feel about this ride. sometime last week i took my bike downtown at evening rush hour just to scope it out and see what it might be like if i get my next job down there. seems like it's just better in every conceivable way, and yet. . . it was so different, i just know that when i'm not doing this ride anymore i'll start getting nostalgic for parts of it. i hate change AND stagnation, basically. and i'm also starting to think soberly that i might not get any job at all for a while.

cool and clear and grey both ways. nice. it's disturbing how little rain we've had this winter. fall was demented, but i think it hardly rained at all in december. no idea of the temperatures because the led i rely on is still saying 130C all the time. must have been easily in the zone between 5 and 10 degrees.

wore my balaclava coming home. this is the pure-wool one i knitted a while ago in the cold crunch and then thought 'oh get real, you're never going to need somethign like that out here.' well, no, but it sure was nice. happiness is a warm face.