Catch up

Didn't follow up with the evening's ride home, for two reasons:
- I updated to the blogger beta (whatever that is) and it took for-frikkin-ever
- it was a pretty uneventful trip home. I was in a bit of a conga-line through the Lane Cove shops carpark, up the back of a diesel Nissan Patrol. Gah.

Yesterday (Mon 11/12) was a bit eventful. The ride to work was going okay, until the climb up to Gore Hill on the Pacific Highway, where some bonehead left his Barina Combo parked in the left hand lane, despite the clearway restriction. This got compounded by the tow truck that came to get him, which proceeded to cut across me to park in front of the offending vehicle. Nice.

Pretty similar thing happened on the way home, where a Landcruiser overtook me on a hill just to turn left in front of me, missing me by about six foot. Damn I hate that. Basically, you're telling me you value my piece of mind less than ten seconds of your time. Break that down from an hourly rate of $60 an hour, it's around 17 cents. And you wonder why I have contempt for people who do this.

Last night turned into a bit of a race home against the thunderstorms, although they never really hit home. Plenty of lightning around, though - can't say it was overly comfortable crossing Fig Tree Bridge perched on a pile of metal. Not a fan of lightning, though.