yesterday, I got in just as a bunch of minor crises broke out at work, and I pretty much spent the entire day in bike clothes. Didn't get a break until 1:30, when I left for lunch, and by that time I figured that I'd just skip the shower for the day. Also, wound up having to leave my laptop at work since it was in the middle of uploading a ginormous zip file to a client's intranet site and I didn't want to stick around to wait for it to finish.

So, since I didn't need to bring my PC home, and since I hadn't used my office clothes, yet, I just left my panniers at work and rode home unladen for the first time in what felt like forever -- just me, the bike and a seat bag with tools and spare tube. Felt like flying.

Ride in was also a pretty nice, and it was neat to be able to get out of the house without running through my daily checklist of ensuring that everything was in my panniers. Just got dressed, ate breakfast, got my keys and left.

Now, I'm looking for excuses to leave my panniers at my desk for another day.