great commuting day. a total of 31 miles because I did the ride in with the bike on the back of a car then rode home then rode back in and back tonight. took the street on the way in tonight and the frozen tundra bike path on the way home both times. It was really wild tonight because most of the water had re-frozen but occasionally I would break through and have to ice break like a cutter for 50' or more. There aren't many intersections but I got to one and had no brakes! rims and brakes were frozen solid! managed to squeeze them really hard and put my foot down just in time and get this:

Tonight I'm leaving where I've locked my bike downtown and I have to go past this nightclub. There are a ton of people outside waiting to get in and a giggling gaggle of sequin gowned girls are gathered to smoke in a corner (it's 25F). I'm wearing my bright orange reflectorized construction workers tee-shirt over my dirty old yellow windbreaker, with my bright yellow helmet over my balaclava, a blinking headlamp, my old jeans tucked into my socks with neoprene booties over my shoes on my beater commuter with a big old red milkcrate on the back rack.

Suddenly I hear them giggling even more and I look and one is struggling with a little digital camera desperately trying to snap my picture before I ride away. I stop and say, "I'll wait." Well, that was all they needed because several of them came running over in their low cut purple and black sleeveless gowns and threw their arms around me to get in the picture with me. They couldn't wait to have their pictures taken with what they obviously thought was the 40 year old virgin. (which is anything but the truth for several reasons)