Arde,

I'm well, thanks. Good point about knees. As it is, I really look forward to the two daily rides - one clears my mind for the (work) day ahead and is a fairly easy paced ride by intent - I don't want to arrive too sweaty - although that was impossible to avoid for most of this summer. Some mornings I'm tempted to just keep riding... anyway, the evening commute is at a much higher exertion level (plus it's UPhill) and that blows off what little residual stress there might be from the day or is simply a chance to get those good old endorphins released. It already feels like something is missing in my day if I must drive instead of bike, and I've only been doing this for a couple of months.

Gadget freakiness - apparently the dogs were a rolling playful furball of teeth and fun last night and knocked my bike over. Someone picked the bike back up but failed to notice that the computer was awol and the mount broken... about a block into my ride this morning I glance down and OMG!!! WHERE IS THE COMPUTER!!! It's how I pace myself - mostly paying attention to the above or below average speed indicators. Son #1 is mounting a replacement bracket as I write this... he's the one that convinced me to put a computer on the bike when I bought it 4 years ago, but other than the oddometer function, I never used it until I started commuting - it was wierd how much it bugged me that it was not there today.

Ride safe!

Tom