Still As Ignorant As Ever
Just when I feel I have arrived at a place of knowledge, life has a way of bitch-slapping me in the face. This weekend and today I received some mixed blessing with regards to my budding career as a bike commuter (can a mode of transportation to your job be called a "career"? No, let's not quibble). These past two weeks it seemed as though biking was getting more and more difficult. My legs were dying on the hills and my lungs were working at full capacity. It was miserable. I was pretty sure that either myself or my bike were falling apart.

So this weekend I complained about this seeming entropy to my friend who had come over to watch the debate. Walking over to my bike he took one long and considering look at it and then reached down and squeezed my tire (that sounds suggestive, doesn't it?), condensing it to half its desired width. My tires were flat. Two weeks of long and horrendous effort accounted for by the stupidest oversight on my part.

To further my humiliation, today I took my bike into a repair shop at lunch to have the gears looked at because they kept slipping and the guy took one look at it, tightened a screw, and pronounced it fixed. He didn't even charge me.

I guess I should be grateful that my obstacles could be overcome with so little expense and effort but mostly I just feel embarrassed and silly. Will I always be a dilettante? Perhaps, perhaps.

On the comic front I inked three comics and some random drawings to go on the website yesterday. I think we're still on track to launch in January although I should probably sit down and make a schedule rather then measuring my progress by the thickness of the paper piled on my desk and the volume of used tea bags in my trashcan.

Also, a little pick-me-up for those of you interested in the climate change issue.