thanks for making me glad to be me today.

i ate something about half an hour before leaving yesterday morning. consequence: 4 minutes faster in the morning, and time to detour for take-out dinner at night. sigh. guess this means there's breakfasts in my future.

this morning it was threatening violent rain right from the git. i took my alert jacket but couldn't be arsed to locate the gloves or rain pants, reasoning (rationalizing) that it wouldn't happen. i was way early (for me) and had to stop at a gas station anyway, so decided to reward myself with coffee as well. took it to this little park with jogging track and playgound that i've discovered a few blocks from work, and wouldn't you know it. i figured i might as well use the time constructively by waxing/wiping my chain, and then figured i might as well see if i could figure out why i can't get the smallest ring on the front cassette . . . and then since i thought i had an idea, figured i might as well bring out the allen keys . . . next thing i knew i'd released the cable on the front derailleur, and didn't have anything fancy to grip it with so as to put it back. i wasn't as early for work as i'd thought i'd be.

coming home it still hadn't rained, but it was still threatening and you could tell from the temperature of the air that somewhere had just been hailed on. i got a spectacular sunset coming over the bridge. then i had to detour for banking and other purposes, and just as i coasted up to the grocery store the heavens fell in on us. it was bouncing back from the road four inches high, and still raining pretty hard as i covered the final mile with half a cow in my messenger bag. cars behaved better than i'd have expected them to, considering it hasn't rained on us like that all summer. thank you alert shirt company and eggplant jeff!

songs: misunderstood, pete townshend; green grow the rashes oh, robert burns; joshua gone barbados, tom rush.