Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear owner of the new white Trek on one of the north quad bike racks--
You have a lovely bike, and I hope you aren't just some freshman with more money than sense. I hope it was you who moved your bike and not someone who stole it. I would never leave my bike outside even with a lock, and mine cost less than yours did.

Dear self--
You have a bike. She's more than good enough for your needs right now. Please stop drooling over bikes that you are not going to be able to afford until you get out of graduate school. If you are going to look, look for a commuter bike for getting you between points A and B next year, not road bikes. She's getting jealous.

Dear bike--
I love you, really! I don't have time to ride right now, what with getting set for the new school year and taking the GRE on Saturday morning. Tell you what--Sunday morning, we go for a nice long ride with DBF and the Cannondale. Sound good to you?

[snapdragen]

Why is it every time I make plans to leave work early, all h*ll breaks loose and I get stuck. Now I get to drive over the hill to Santa Cruz in rush hour traffic....so much for arriving relaxed and calm.

[bmccasland]

Happy 4th Anniversary Hurricane Katrina.

We're still here, still rebuilding.

And news media - the blasted hurricane hit the Gulf coast of Mississippi and Alabama too. Just ask my colleague who lost his house in Bay St. Louis, and didn't have flood insurance. His house was hit by the out-bound wave.

[Trek420]

Typing from on top of the Hayward fault this could happen to any community here. I hope all will do whatever we can to help the Gulf Coast.

Not to politicize the thread but this is good, I think:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Weekl...he-Gulf-Coast/