Really felt the extra weight of the laptop this morning. Tires were a bit squishy and slow, too. Wore the messenger bag instead of the backpack--a mistake in retrospect after I see the angry red mark on my shoulder after carrying all that weight. Rained hard last night, but this morning was nice.

I meant to fill up on air this morning on the way in at a service station (our area seems to now have a law requiring free air/water for customers' cars). Pulled in to the service station, noted the coin slots on the air, and thought I was out of luck. Then I saw the sign that said that it was free for customers, just let the attendant know and they'll get it working.

"Great!", I thought, "I can get my tires topped off!"
"...oh, wait--I'm not a 'customer', am I?..."
[checks the 3.50ish gas prices] "Ouch! And it's a damn good thing, too!"

Rode the rest of the way perfectly happy with my squishy 38's.