Well, a week of freezing rain and other obstacles foiled my commuting plans, but today I got a new start. You couldn't ask for a sweeter ride in--the sun was shining, and a tailwind kept me on the biggest chainring. The grass is starting to turn green.

The wind had mostly died by the time I went home, but it was rather cold, and I regretted not bringing my long-sleeved sweatshirt. The power lines must have been contracting, almost the entire way I heard a high-pitched noise coming from overhead.

Due to the fact that a co-worker had told me she could barely see me when she drove up behind me one night, I've added a second blinky and a 2-inch-wide reflective strip wrapped all around my rear pannier. The 5-LED Cateye is proving very satisfactory--today I must have had it at the perfect angle, because it was lighting up the road nicely, and yet everyone dimmed their brights coming from the opposite way. (One person even flashed their brights in what I think was meant to convey, "Hey, one of your headlights is out!")

It was a great day, and I'm thawing out now.