Woke up this morning, got myself a bike.

Well, today was the great test ride on getting to light rail in the morning. Left the apartment at about 0540.

Distance: 3.632 miles
Maximum Speed: 20.1 mph
Average Speed: 11.3 mph
Time: 19m, 23s

Using the Guadalupe Trail segment worked well. The trail is shaded for most of my ride (which will be a bonus riding home in the afternoon) and is level and smooth. I have bike lanes for the rest of my trip except on Almaden expressway.

I reached the light rail station in about ten minutes. I wasn't winded, felt good, and since I'll have a 20 minute break while riding the train, should have no problems getting to work in the mornings. Now I just need to double-check the schedules. There was a notice last week about schedule adjustments; hopefully, these won't affect me too much.

I will need to get up a little earlier and have everything ready to go in the mornings.

Oh, Happy Tour de France 2006!

I swore it was a coyote...

Yet another Funny Thing I Saw On The Road.

Creeping along on 580 W through Livermore. This is normal, that highway is overloaded most of the day. I notice a dead raccoon by the side of the road. Looks like it got hit and managed to crawl out of traffic before expiring. There it lay, legs spread out, tail straight behind it, with a "fuck, I'm dead!" expression.

That's not the funny part. The funny part is that someone stopped and drew a chalk outline around the raccoon, and wrote "Call CSI!!!" in huge letters. Luckily I had swallowed my Coke before I saw that.

Eariler in the week, while cutting over to Livermore on 84 E, I saw a five-foot rattlesnake crossing the road. Nice thing was everyone stopped to let him go by.