Slimy commute to church (5 miles round trip)... I am really, really wanting studded tires 'cause they would have made riding today basically easy. It was just on the edge of "oh, take the car" - but made for having to ride further out than I like (and that's saying something - I"m solidly on the left hand side of the right hand third of the lane) and led to an interesting interaction with an ambulance, and because I had to pay so much attention to the road I don't even know how close it was. I just know that when I was on the completely left hand side of the road to hop onto the perpendicular path, the ambulance had stopped there (on my left..., oh about a foot away) like, s/he had the whole blooming *right* side of the road to work with and I *think* I was pretty obvious about my trajectory).