Bicycled to work yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised that someone had chopped through the 4-inch thick ice along a path I use. I was expecting to have to walk through that area. Not that there's a chance that whoever did that will read this - thanks!!

The wind was not so cooperative. The *only* day this week that the wind did not come off the water was yesterday. It came very strongly from the WNW, right in my face for 15 solid miles. A great workout, but it could have waited until I was a bit more in biking shape.

I get to speak at four masses over the weekend and try to convince everyone to help out with our financial situation. I drew the short straw on that one...

Did I see snow in the forecast for Sunday into Monday? Peter won't like that now that tennis has started for the season.

I've been spending a lot of time on the reunion planning. Sent out individual email messages to about 70 classmates asking for confirmation of their mailing address. This will aid us when/if we need to send anything in the mail, and also will help track them down later if their email address changes -- I hope.

Even though I work in the industry, I still am amazed how quick and easy it is to email and receive a reply from people as far away from New Hampshire as Hawaii. It's nice to know the connections are there.

Last week was likely the last local cross-country skiing for me, unless we get another storm. I'm looking forward to getting back to bicycling to work soon.