ah, good times tuesday morning. started off late to work because cat went to emergency room last night to i am slightly emotional. i really wanted the bike ride. worked it harder than before, took hills in second of three gears instead of previous first gear. i felt like somehow the hills became shorter than before. cool. what's not cool was the sixteen wheeler traipsing through my neighborhood (wtf?) sifting gasoline stank in front of me and not enabling me to pass (i wasn't going to argue). then pulls up top stop sign so i stop too, and sip my water and wait for him to turn and pass, but instead he waits for ME and i turn and he in 30 seconds passes me with a loud WHIRL. then i was at another stop sign, this time with a ups driver. he surprises me totally by pulling up next to me scaring me half to death and then turns left, where i follow suit (the stop light had gone out due to road work where this ocurred). anyway, the ease on the hills made up for the scary truck encounters. arrived at work 11am not too sweaty al'bedarned.