Notes to Self

• If the sky is slightly overcast, consider checking the weather forecast.
• If the radar looks like this: ...reconsider your plans to ride your bike twelve blocks to the grocery store.
• That trusty backpack which carried you through four years of college is not waterproof.
• The brakes on your fifteen-year-old Huffy ten-speed will not work when wet.
• Working brakes are important for your ride home, which is mostly downhill.
• You really need a new seat for that bike. That cute pink seat worked great when you were ten, but you don't have a ten-year-old's butt anymore.
• You might as well laugh, because hey, it's funny.
• You can officially self-diagnose a sick obsession with blogging if you spend the entire dripping-wet ride/walk home composing this blog post.