my parents go out in pairs

Screw my parents' ban, cyclocommuting is good. Today's ride was fantastic. The sky half-heartedly threatened to rain, but it never did (save perhaps a few drops), and the cloud cover provided excellent shade. I rode in comfort for the whole round-trip. The sky was blue and the grass was green and Tampines looked very pretty, not in the least for the two void deck weddings I spotted in passing. (um, congratulations to them?) A stick got lodged in the back wheel around Sunplaza park as I was returning home and I had to stop to coax it out. That disoriented me a bit so that I veered off the road safely into the grass patch. (Thanks be to the government in their infinite wisdom for their grass patches and their roofed connectors.) A biker coming in the opposite direction laughed at me. Sigh.

Another trip of puddles, people, dogs, wheelchairs, bus stop crowds, unreasonably narrow corners and nefarious traffic lights accommodated WITHOUT ACCIDENT. Let this be a record of my erstwhile competence. (Stick notwithstanding.) I played so safe with traffic lights that I must have lost five minutes of good time on the road at least. I'm just glad it didn't rain.

Weather continues fantastic. Pretty birds everywhere. Must resist urge to take bike downstairs and disappear forever.

I'm in a really good mood for the first time all day.