Bikes

I can't sleep. Melatonin isn't cutting it this week. Hell, vodka isn't cutting it. What's weird is that whatever it is that's keeping me awake hasn't surfaced enough in my consciousnesses for me to know what words to give it. It must be big because booze would usually work by this point.

It's almost like I'm afraid to go to sleep. And I have no idea why. Crud.

What's even more sad is that I think I'm doing ok. I started commuting to work on my bike back in April. Admittedly, I still drive about one day a week but it's better than I had been doing. And I can already tell I'm losing weight. That and I stopped drinking beer for the most part, which I think was not helping with the weight gain.

But this leads to me wanting to get a new bike as the mountain bike I've had for the last 13 years is no longer cutting it. Not that I want to get rid of it, it's been a sturdy steed and still has lots of life in it. But I'm ready for something different as an everyday bike. My desire is to stop driving as much as possible as long as I live in a place where it's possible to do so(I think I could commute to work at least every month of the year).

At this point I've narrowed it to either a cyclo-cross or touring style bike. And it seems to a degree there isn't that much difference between them these days. But what do I know, I'm new at this again.

Oh yeah, I saw Mogwai the other night. Awesome.