Second day of commuting to the new job from the new home in the new state. Thought I might be able to just slip into the side entrance of the company campus again like I did yesterday, but they added a new fence, as if to mock me! I saw a security guard there (also new since yesterday) and thought maybe he would see me and just let me in the swinging gate thing, but he told me to go around the main entrance. The guards at the main gate (two in the booth and then another two actually guarding the gates... overkill?) looked at me weird when I rolled up, but I flashed the ID badge and they let me go through. As I passed the gate, I thought I heard one of the guards behind me say "That's great" as if they were genuinely impressed that I was riding in the winter. Might have just said, "that's the gate." oh well.

Then when I was leaving at the end of the day, I rode across campus to the company health and fitness center to drop off my enrollment paperwork (they have an on-site masseuse!). I noticed on the way over there that my front tire seemed soft. I figured while I was at the fitness center and since I actually knew someone who was working there I'd ask if they had a bike pump, possibly to fill the various balls they had there. They went and dug it out, I went out to fill up, and right away something was wrong. It seemed to be letting more air out of my tire than in. I soon discovered that part of the air hose that went from the main shaft to the gauge was ripped, and that my tire was now flat! I brought it back in to show them, they tried taping it, it still didn't work. So my old friend working there offered to throw my bike in the back of her boyfriend's car and just drive me home. Not feeling like walking with the bike, I accepted. I really need to go get a portable pump of some kind. Can anyone recommend a good one?