today was nice. overcast, crispy-cool both ways. yesterday was interesting: ball game at 6, meeting scheduled late in the day. i've never got home in less time - an unbelievable only-7-minutes-more-than-the-morning-ride . . . and i only missed the first inning or two of a fast-moving game. changed so fast i forgot to take some other non-bike coat with me but the game was over before i got really cold.

i think i'm almost just about done with riding only in the middle cog. maybe give it another week, if i'm not organised enough to get it in to the fixer-people this weekend. alternatively i could wait until i'm strong enough to really want bigger gears . . . i think i might be spinning better as a result of only having 8 gears, so i'm not in all that much of a hurry to get it seen to.

the bike-cage guy at this place is one of those hermless-misfit i.t. guys who never completely grew out of being sixteen, socially, and never quite got over robert heinlein either. hermless but irritating at closer quarters. had much more interaction with him than my 'patient' gene can handle this week, what with investigating the missing lock, then replacing it and then replacing all keys. my sunblock regime is holding up fairly well.