what i like about this thread: whatever kind of day i've had, someone else will have had it too. and actually, today was pretty nice. set myself a different kind of goal: get to work and get home without getting sweaty or putting out any effort. couldn't find my stopwatch for the ride home, but the ride in was just like any other ride when i do sweat it up. musta been tailwinds going on.

the bridge has a long, long (almost 1k) flat approach that's . . . well, it's basically a whole bunch of overpasses and other bridges or something before you get to the real one. or something like that; i've never completely figured it out. anyway there's a bus-stop somewhere along the way, and lately i've been having interaction with people at it. on tuesday it was a scary-looking guy who maintained deadpan eye-contact through the entire approach and then when i was about 5 feet away, suddenly stuck out a thumb like a hitchhiker. still completely deadpan; unfortunately i was already past him by the time my face got a laugh assembled. then today it was someone sitting on the kerb; as i came along i got to witness an impressively long steady sneezing fit. i yelled 'bless you' as i went by, but i don't think he even knew i was there, never mind caught the words. hope he didn't think i was saying something more rude.

the industrial island under north edge of the bridge hosts a mysteriously cyclical variety of industrial activities; today it seemed like they were baking dog biscuits down there. better than the sawmill days when you get slivers of cedar and pine in your eyes, or the ones where they're hosting a city's garbage on its way to wherever it goes.

songs: the red dwarf theme.