Got rid of the combination brake & fender rub on the front wheel this weekend. What a difference it made! So much less effort was expended and as a result, I was sweating less and pretty comfortable the whole ride in even though it warmed up to 32F this morning.

Passed by the remains of what looked like a weekend accident. Wood splinters were scattered around a manhole that had a 4" deep square dug around it. It was also blocked off from traffic by a sawhorse. Looks like a car bust through the previous sawhorse that was blocking it off, hence the splinters. As I rode through the splinter field, I heard a loud POP! and thought it was the car next to me, then thought it might've been my tires. Turned out to be just some random unexplained POP! so I continued on to work.

edit: The POP! was not a gunshot.