Just rounded out my first full week of commuting. It is a shade under 6 miles each way, and it really is pretty easy from a traffic standpoint. The ride to work in the morning is made somewhat difficult because for all intents and purposes i'm riding slightly uphill for the whole trip, but it is totally worth it because it is just enough of a slope to make the ride home easy and a ton of fun. and then there's the occasional d-bag driver to liven it up.

this morning, for example, I came to the fork in the road where i typically veer left. i signaled and had taken the lane quite well (if i do say so myself). That, however, didn't stop this little audi from zipping around me on my left then cutting back across to the right to veer the other direction. He not only almost took me down by clipping first my elbow on the way past and then my front wheel with his back bumper, he then just about hoppped the curb in the middle of the veer and nailed the car sitting at the stop sign.