I'm pretty sure I wrote some kind of New Year's message in this very forum about this time last year, but to be honest, I'm too lazy to go back through the archives to see if I did or didn't, or what I wrote, so if any of this sounds familiar I invite you to kick me in the teeth right now. First of all, I hope all of you had a safe and happy holiday. Mine was safe, and mostly happy, so I suppose that is what that is. The best thing I did, besides hanging out with my…

The Big Dummy and I ran some errands today with the help of my Bikes At Work trailer. In one trip, we dropped off a complete door with hardware and frame at the Reuse Center, visited Ryan at Peace Coffee…a local roaster of the addictive bean, took 25kg of steel and aluminum to the recycler, bought an 8-pack of 16 oz Bitburger cans, and mailed a package at the post office. I'm certain it would have taken longer to use a car to do the same things. I had no parking hassles, and most of my route was in bike…