I know what you mean TrekDianna since I've worked for....8 different employers during the course of my career so far. For most organizations, I didn't do business lunches with people much at all. It's just introspective me. I've lost touch with all the people I've had remote acquaintance from previous employers. But because I've been cycle commuting to work for a long time, several of those employers did know and saw I cycled to work. So yea, discussions revolved around health in general, travel, safe stuff.

This latest employer, I know of only 1 person personally outside of work, and she works for a totally different division. I do socialize just with 1 person occasionally because I am new to the city and know no one. No one before I moved from Vancouver. It wouldn't be a big deal if I was in my 20's, fresh out of university and moving to city where one knew no one. That happened when I moved to Toronto.

But life is quite different when you relocate in your 50's.

If it weren't for my partner who did live in this city in his last final years of his career, I would have been cluelessly slow in understanding the pulse of this city and various neighbourhoods just to feel comfortable.

I walk into the workplace with my cycling gear on and leave with cycling on. So no secret about this facet of me. True, there are colleagues who really don't understand my cycling lifestyle. But I don't care.

Yea, malkin maybe I yak too much.