Having slept the majority of the prior 36 hours, I found myself awake with lots of energy before 0600 this morning. On a whime, I decided to do something I haven't done much of recently: Ride my bike.

The air outside was slightly chilly but not cold, and the first rays of daylight were appearing in the sky.

Since no bikeride would be complete without at least a little dumpster diving, I stopped behind the nearby 7-11 to check on possible goodies. Sometimes, it really does almost seem too easy. Sitting on the ground outside the full-to-capacity dumpster, there was a clear trash bag full of sandwiches, probably not left there more than a couple hours ago. (But even if they had sat there longer, the temperature would have kept them perfectly refridgerated.)

I untied the bag, filled my backpack with a nice variety, and rode away with a turkey and cheese in my hand to eat during the ride.

The sun peaked over the horizon, lending the scene an idealized look, like you'd see in a piece of good photography.

I got halfway up the first stretch of hill (not even a hill really, but a slight incline), when my body reminded me that I hadn't done this in a while. I was out of breath, my muscles were taxed, and I was already in a fairly low gear. With the sandwich half-eaten, my stomach told me in no uncertain terms that I needed to either stop eating or stop exercising, or bad things would happen.

And it was just a few months ago that I would regularly eat-n-ride merrily away, with barely a trace of effort. Out of practice, out of condition. I'm going to have to start doing this regularly again!

Why the lapse? The fact that it's winter barely explains half of it. Even on warm days, I haven't been riding. Ever since the truncated road trip, I've generally felt lethargic, which tends to feed on itself.

Anyway, when I got here, I decided it was high time to get the classic text mode rambling interface up to speed with the new site. Unlike the last few Bitscape's Lounge revisions, I've been making all the content administration functions of this site web-based. But sometimes, I still want good old vi.

(Especially since there seems to be an odd bug in mozilla (or X?) that causes it to lose keystrokes when one is typing fast. It seems like it disregards a keystroke if you start to push down on a key before the last one you pressed has been fully released. This happens all the time in Mozilla's text entry boxes, but I can type as fast as I want into an xterm, and nothing gets lost. Very strange.)

I was thinking I might write a Big Piece of Content today that I've been meaning to get around to (there are actually several of those), but now I'm thinking I might put it off a little longer and ride back pretty soon. Maybe. Or maybe I'll just zone out.