note to car drivers.

when approaching a stop sign or red traffic light, you must fully stop at the single, solid white line. You can't enter the crosswalk until the crosswalk is clear. If you can't see traffic from behind the white line, you can creep forward after stopping, but not in a way that impedes pedestrian traffic or nearly hits my dog.

And if you pull your effing car into the crosswalk, I'm likely to thwap your car with my hand or my dog's leash to make some noise and make sure you see we're there, since ostensibly you wouldn't enter the crosswalk if you had seen us. And if you threaten to get out of your car because of said thwapping, I'm assuming to apologize for your misdeeds, please be aware that said dog is large and doesn't like angry people, so it's ok, just don't do it again.

thanks to Kenny and Emily we had pie and pie last night - yum! - and we got tandemized. On the way home Ben really turned it up and we kept trying to drop other riders on fancy bikes on Milwaukee. I giggled out loud the whole way. It's hard to keep up with his cadence and it always feels like the bike is about to just completely fall apart.