Blah!!! You stole it from me.

Day before yesterday, commute to work ended up commute to hospital. Right arm dislocated from shoulder, plus broken bone in joint thanks to slick chipseal corner and front-wheel lose at 25km/h. Really strange sensation having a bicep line up with the ribs (as if the pain wasn't enough to tell me something was wrong). Retraced my route three kilometres to the local doctor's surgery where they called an ambulance and gave me some pethedine. Spent six hours in hospital. Loved the knock-out sedative they gave me so they could reset the dislocation.

Bus to work yesterday and today . I'll try to ride home tonight, dammit, and if I get there, then it will be a 300km randonnee on Sunday. The surgery on the joint will have to wait until late-November because of all the randonnees I have planned in other States culminating in the Great Southern 1200 late next month.

Oh yeah, more importantly -- the bike came out of it much better off than me. Both (!) STI levers pushed out of line and a broken lens on the 5-LED Cateye rear light was all it sustained. It was going to get a virtual rebuild this weekend anyway, including new Velocity wheels (woohoo).