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June 6, 2007
mercy! 
I have a cup of (decaf) coffee. I have a smoothie (a really good one with lots of strawberries). I have a container of cut-up fruit. I should want for nothing, nothing, I tell you.
It's full-on rose festival now, so I haven't bothered riding my bike. My entire downtown commute would need to be rerouted onto streets that have no bike lanes. And that would be fine, except everything is crazy now: suburbanites come into the city and obviously don't know what to do with bicyclists.
For example, last week, I had someone apparently try to back over me (when I had traffic behind me and couldn't go backwards), because she wanted a parking spot. Hey, she was obviously bigger, in her giant SUV, but she can't claim she didn't see a fat woman on a pink bicycle. Grrr.
That, and it's raining. Which is good, because it's been a really dry spring, but...
Work stuff is bringing me down. Nuff said on that.
Tonight, I go look at dutch bikes. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I've been wanting a dutch bike for well over a year, and now that I'm on the verge of trying one, I am so nervous. Nervous mostly that it won't live up to all the excitement and expectations I've had about it.
Posted at June 6, 2007
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I'm afraid to go check out the Dutch bikes for fear I'd be compelled to buy one when I've not made good use of the $600 Trek I bought a year ago. I hope you'll report back on your visit. (I assume to the new place in SE mentioned at bikeportland.org?)
Posted by: hhw at June 6, 2007 5:14 PM
I feel your pain. I LIVE in the suburbs. I envy the whole rose festival there. In June in Albuquerque, we have our annual Dust festival.
Posted by: Misty at June 7, 2007 5:28 AM