Another semester in the books and another semester closer to the dream of spoiling the minds of the youth of the country with my rhetoric. It was a great semester but I was looking forward to taking some time off before the summer semester begins. I will have three days off, but it will be a positively enjoyable three days of not knowing what the hell to do with the time. The last month has been a busy one, with extra hours wrenching on other peoples bicycles and what with preparing for final exams and end of semester projects. I did find lots of time to ride the 32 miles to and from work as my truck was in the shop for a week... I got over 100 miles in in just over a week. It taught me that I love riding to work no matter how far it is. I have since ridden to work several times with a perfectly good truck parked in the driveway. I was always the bike commuter before, but now I am learning to enjoy it. Both for the monetary advantage and the physical workout I am getting, but also an even more important sense of saving the environment and being a visible presence for cycling advocacy. I am attempting to get the entire shop to ride to work on May 21st which is national bike day, I will probably ride to work that whole week, bit if the lot were empty of cars I think it will make a great statement. Anywho... its great to be able to share some thoughts on the old blog again, even though I know no one is reading it anymore, its still good to talk about it with whomever may accidentally stuble upon this post. Cheers.
