I am the NIGHT RIDER!

For the first time, I have ridden my bike home, at least most of the way, in the dark.

I took my bike to Haddonfield, took the train into Camden, then made my merry way to the bridge and went home from there. It was all very simple.

I had one incident where some dumb driver's were locked on the car in front of her as she turned left. Couldn't be bothered to look to see if anything was coming straight. She just barely stopped, I gave her the business. She probably convinced herself that I was riding in the dark and therefore deserved to be hit. After all, I was only had a light, covered with reflective material, and her eyes were most definately not looking for oncoming stuff.

But anyway. The bridge is very interesting in the dark. Almost kinda spooky in some ways. One nice thing about the dark is that my flashing light let's the folks blocking the road know that there is someone behind them. In this case it was a group of kids on street bikes walking them up the bridge. Normally, that would involve a lot of alerting the oblivious, but the light flashing away told them ahead of time.

Anyway, things were pretty bad over the weekend. Had a bunch of trouble at work and was really let into a gut-wrenching situation. I'll spare the details (it is possible this blog is being read by someone 'keeping an eye', although I am likely just being paranoid), but on Friday afternoon I was pretty much convinced my job was doomed. Today, I can't say things are any better from the outside perception, but at least I will simply do my job, avoid the mistakes I made that got me in trouble. After a day of product stuff and picture work with camera and Photoshop I feel much better. If doing all the work that I can as best I can is not enough for some folks then there was nothing more I could do.