Mixed bag

Today started out in promising fashion:



I attended several talks in the early morning session before Natali and I put our heads together to figure out what needed to be "polished" for her presentation which is scheduled for Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, the answer was that a lot of material needed to be gone over. It wouldn't have been so bad, 'cept we lacked some of the machinery necessary and so I ended up doing a lot of programming today. I wish I had spent _yesterday_ inside and _today_ outside; given the weather each day, that would have made more sense. Alas, it was not to be.

Of course, I was unable to go straight to work given the nicer weather, so I took the long way back to my dorm, my computer, and my work by finding a new bike route between the university and downtown. I still haven't repeated any significant stretches of riding this week, but I'm going to have to detour farther every time I go to keep that record up. I took a few more pictures to add to the collection. Check them out.

Since I'm exhausted I'll leave off by noting that I had a singular experience this morning: a bicycle traffic jam. On my way to downtown, there were several points where 5 or 6 riders were in a row on the trail and couldn't pass the slower rider because of "oncoming" traffic. Davis, California is the only other place I've seen comparable numbers of bikers, but Davis is a much smaller place than Calgary.