Consecutive bicycle work commute number 1751:

My wife flew to Ohio to visit her family on Saturday, so I'm a bachelor for the week. My son is keeping me extra busy now that there's not two of us around to entertain him.

I decided to take advantage of the fact that my wife isn't going to need her car and scheduled services on our vehicles this week. This morning I dropped off my old truck that my son drives to have new tires and struts put on it. Five years ago I may have said that it's not worth sinking that kind of money into a 20 year old truck, but as insane as vehicle prices have gotten, it now makes more sense to spend the money to keep an old car roadworthy.

After I dropped off the truck, I rode from the service center to the client's office. If I went straight there it would be about 2.5 miles, but I decided to take the long way and rode a mile in the opposite direction, then caught the MUP and followed the river downtown. It was about a 7.5 mile ride.

The client is closed for Native American Day*, so I'm sitting in their building alone. I like it. It's quiet and I can get work done without distractions.

*I just discovered that it's Native American Day only in South Dakota and Oklahoma. In Alabama it's American Indian Heritage Day. In the other 47 US states it's Indigenous People's Day. However the Federal Government still officially recognizes it as Columbus Day. So there's your trivia for today.

The temp this morning was 36°F, but thankfully there was no wind. This was the first morning of the season where I rode wearing long pants instead of shorts. Usually I try to not wear pants until the temps hit freezing, but I notice I'm getting older and feel the cold more. I really didn't see any reason to wear shorts in these temps except to tell the world I wore shorts, and they don't care anyway. So out came the long pants.