Met mom at B&M Wednesday. She bought a Raleigh Venture. She plans on riding around the neighborhood for now. Then working her way up to riding down 39th ave to Starbucks and Dee-Lites with her boyfriend Brian. Then maybe some on the Hawthorne trail.

Virginia and I had a nice ride to the Top Thursday night. Lots of people still had Christmas lights up.

Dropped Civic Hybrid off at dealer this morning and biked back home. That was my first ride in several days. Haven't been riding to work this week due to cold. Plus my prostate problem has been flared up. I rode Mower's trainer a little on Sunday but that was boring and I was having some technical problems.

I went by B&M yesterday to pick up the Sempre. Dave did its 30 day tune up. Talked to Paul and Keith about zombies, recumbents, how Paul hates holidays and a bunch of other stuff. It was cool. Almost like hanging out at the record store.

Keith again invited me on one of the 352 team's Sunday rides. He said the ride for 4 1/2 hours. That is an absurd amount of time to be exercising unless it happens to be with a sickass pimp who happens to be your best friend and you talk about farting and Billy Squier the whole time.

Did the Race Track loop today. The wind was 20mph according to my weather app. The first part was rough and the last 6 miles were brutal straight into a headwind. The middle portion was good. I forgot to put my emergency tire kit on again, but thankfully avoided flats. The animal corpse I pass by is really on it's last legs now.

The bike periodically makes this annoying clicking noise. I think it has to do with the sensor for the bike computer which seems to fall into the spokes. Hopefully the power meter will be a little cleaner in this regard.

Going to ride in to work without the panniers tomorrow (Thursday). Tempted to take the Sempre but don't want to risk a flat. The Cortina's kevlar tires win out.

My commutes of late have been suffused with an overwhelming ennui and lassitude. Pedaling seems tedious. The ride in wasn't so bad yesterday (Tuesday). There were no kids going to school to navigate around. That will be nice for the next 2 weeks. As I rode by Littlewood Elem. the alarm sounded for no one.

Rode to work w/o the panniers again. V made me a care package of homemade cookies to tuck in my jacket. Practiced standing in place on the pedals while waiting on red lights like the match sprinters do. It was busier at the pharmacy tonight than I had anticipated. I bunch of people showed up at once with various problems. Right before close some Hispanic jackhole showed up to get Viagra. He was kind of a douche and he kept asking me annoying questions about erections.

Looks like 'Bikes' has stopped following me. Just like that I've lost 50% of my readership and we will never solve the mystery that was 'Bikes'.

Friday I did the Millhopper loop at a good clip. As I've mentioned before I can't sprint on a bike to save my life (riding as fast as possible for like 10 seconds). Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things. I'm going to work on getting my top speed up.

Friday afternoon I rode into work prepared for a miserable day. I stopped off at Starbucks and Cold Stone for a Frappe and ice cream cupcakes to fortify myself for a long night. It wasn't too horrible. There were a few roaches (oxycodone seekers causing problems). Saturday I had a couple of Smurfs (Meth heads buying Sudafed). They come in back to back buying the max strength Sudafed and they each have ID's from the same small town, like Bronson or Live Oak. God I get tired of dealing with Smurfs and roaches.

Sunday's commute was cold, overcast and damp. The students are gone for Xmas break which makes work much easier.

Ride in yesterday(Thursday AM) was cool. I had SY's "In the Kingdom" in my head while getting ready that morning, but surprise it wasn't playing on the Walgreens muzak when I walked in. Saw BHL. It dawned on me that she doesn't wear a helmet. Also she rides down 34th st on the sidewalk against traffic. Dangerous in terms of cars on side streets trying to pull out.

The lights were kind and I made good time despite not biking very hard. My legs were still sore from the day before.

It was cool riding to Bikes and More with you (Harry, not my other follower, 'Bikes'). Man you really don't like sidewalks.

Later Virginia and I biked to Boca Fiesta for dinner. The Hippodrome looked nice with it's Christmas lights. In fact the whole area had a nice atmosphere considering how built up and commercialized it has become. Boca was out of the Dessert Nachos as always. They get bits of waffle cone or something from Karma Cream and then add ice cream and hot fudge and stuff. I really don't know because every time I order it they don't have it.

The ride home was colder and V was pedaling at a good clip to get home. We'd hit these pockets of cold at the bottom of hills.

My mom emailed me that she wants to test drive my bike and accompany her to the bike store to possible buy one. Should be interesting.