I've been riding the bike from hotel to lab and back even though it's a ridiculously short distance (maybe a block or two). It's far enough that it's nice in the heat not to have to walk it, especially as I've been feeling so puny and easily worn out.

I also rode it back to the bike shop to pick up a flat kit. I thought it was funny that the only actual ride (hotel to lab not really counting) was to the bike shop. Simply getting the bike created trips.

I intended to go to the grocery store yesterday afternoon and even left the lab a little early. But I was so tired, once again I just couldn't muster up the motivation to leave the hotel room. Or even the bed. I was a little hungry but not hungry enough even to order something because that would involve a) thinking and b) getting up to answer the door! I'd eaten the last of my trail mix the night before.

Today I had a little more time so just now I went to the grocery store. It was a mile away, and easy to get to. I saw another bike there, a nice road bike locked up with the front wheel removed and locked with it. Then when I was in line I saw a guy all fitted up in cycling gear and I started chatting with him. (In retrospect that was a bad idea because my previous experience had been he would inevitably ask about my relationship status. However he did NOT at any point inquire. That's different! lol) He suggested a different route to go back, and when I asked directions said "I live downtown so I'm going that way, I'll just show you." So I rode with him for the mile back.

It's good to have replenished my snack food, so tonight when I'm too exhausted to move, yet a little hungry, I'll have something.

I keep forgetting to take a picture of the bike, and I did try to make note of the make & model but I have since forgotten.