I took my bike in to get it fixed enough to ride around. The guy fixing my bike was actually from Seattle, so we talked about the Northwest and about how we're both kind of crazy to have moved to Chicago from Washington and how it's so weird to look at Lake Michigan and not to smell that salt-water scent. Good thing I was wearing my Gonzaga sweatshirt.

I'm excited to go bike riding again. I now have a new chain, a new front tire, higher handle bars, a new seat and well, that's about it...but I'm looking forward to riding about again.

I was thinking that it would be really cool to have a bike car. It would be kind of like a car, four seats, enclosed and all that, but it would also be kind of like a moped, and be battery or some other kind of fuel. Okay, so I googled "bike car" and I found this: http://www.rhoadescar.com/jumpfeat.htm and that's kind of what I'm thinking, though, that thing looks pretty hideous. I think I should go to some Cycling Sisters workshops so I can learn bike stuff and create a the minivan of bikes.