I'm glad you're O.K. and I hope you get cooled down the rest of the way. If you would have caught the pick-up we may have been reading your obituary. 30# bicycle challenges 3500# truck, talk about ugly!!
You must be so proud of your daughter volunteering to work with the Peace Corp.
On the commute in this morning (04:00 am.) I had a somewhat unsettling experience that proved to be perfectly harmless. Generally I don't encounter any human life forms what-so-ever on my morning commute, so this morning when a car passing on my left slowed to a crawl (15 mph) and the passenger window came down I got just a wee bit nervous. Luckily the kid just calmly said "You should slow down a little" and off they calmly drove. I had gotten excited for no reason, this time. You see, I've had my share of beer bottles launched at me also.