Consecutive bicycle work commute number 2296:

2°F air temp today, with the wind chill slightly below zero. When I went to bed I thought I might wake up to face my 7th subzero commute of the season, but the mercury stayed just above zero.

Due to a very sunny weekend, the dusting of snow we got on Friday is mostly gone. I took the road bike, which is not generally a great cold weather bike due to my ventilated clipless shoes, and the derailleur's propensity to not want to shift into higher gears in extreme cold. But the light wind was at my back, and the humidity was low, so overall it was not as cold of a commute as I expected. I rode 4.5 miles to a client and thought I could have easily kept riding.

Last week one of the employees at this client posted "guidelines" about the use of their locker room area. The guidelines were mostly about not leaving items unused in lockers for months at a time, and people hanging towels to dry outside of the lockers. This started a war of words, with people scribbling their retorts on the posted rules. The guy who originally posted the guidelines contacted me, assuming I was one of the authors of the retorts. I told him I didn't write anything, although I did read them for entertainment purposes. I also said that some of the concerns of the responders were valid, if not tactful. In any event, I told him I'm getting moved to a different location next month, so it's really a moot point what I think regarding their organization's locker room.