So, I'm riding to work this morning about 6:45 am in sunny NC, and start feeling little prickles on my face. It felt like little gnats biting me, or small bits of gravel hitting my face. Then I notice little white flecks in my headlight beam. It's sleeting! We rarely ever get icy weather this time of year. In fact, Raleigh has never had a white Christmas dating back to the 1800s.

Maybe it had something to do with the LED Christmas lights I put on my bike frame last night. I picked up a string at Target for $5. It's powered by 4 AA batteries, and the string is just long enough to wrap around the main triangle with the battery pack in my seat bag. Looks pretty cool, particularly in the dark.