"I would've stolen one but I always get caught doing things like that"

Was so happy to get on the bike today since I was mislead by both news12 meteorologist Jeff Mendelsohn and God who assured me there'd be a storm. 20 minutes of rain conveniently as I was leaving in the morning. So it was good to be riding today and since I didn't have to bring lunch nor a change of clothes, I brought my old bag instead of the backpack with me and sweated noticeably less.

Today I also brought my camera and will upload a few choice shots once I return home.

They're filming the same movie at the corner at 29th street -- I now know what it's called and its cast and premise but won't promote it. However, it is about a bike messenger. There were a ton of bikes lined up near there. I would've stolen one but I always get caught doing things like that.

Made the light about halfway through the two-lanes of the highway and had to quickly stop because the southbound cars were on their way and they brake for nobody. I finished Beneath The Wheel last night and am realizing how much I truly love Hesse's style. I wish I'd read this in high school as it would've given me some on-the-spot perspective about my adolescence without any of the yelling or lecturing. The only lecture I picked up on was that if you push a kid too much in any one direction, he's doomed. You've got to want to do it. The drive should come first from within and then ask for/receive guidance. The point is, you have to (want to) do something. You cannot just be an empty vessel all the time.

Everything came in floods for Hans: The studying, the awkwardness, the isolation, the lack of women, the failure, the longing, the girl, the unknown, the booze. Too much of any one thing at one time will get the best of you. There were some particular passages that stood out for me but obviously I cannot recall them off-hand so I'll email them to myself and paste it in another post.

I'm intermittently reading I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley. It's a collection of essays and I pick it up between dense literary works. It's pretty good reading and my style probably reflects her's but I'd like to be about 10% deeper than her.

As I passed the corporate hellhole just before WFC, the security guards were gesturing for me to slow down. Slow down for what? To make it more hazardous for one of their Lumbergs to walk across the lane? I'm on 20" wheels, I can't be going that fast. It really pisses me off for a second and as I cross the street and am onto WFC territory I glance at my reflection in the glass walls and see that the pissed off guy on the folding bike is wearing an Average Joe's t-shirt from "Dodgeball."

I'll ride the bike during lunch today, too, as I need to pick up concert tickets at Mercury Lounge. I'll take the FDR north and get some good shots there, too.

I'm 4 for 5 two straight weeks in a row in terms of roundtrip biking. That's an 80% success rate. I would've done it last Friday but I got hooked up with 2 sweet Yankees suite tickets and decided to give it a rest.

Thank you for reading.