I've ridden my bicycle to work almost every day for the last two months!

I think there were two days when I took the bus. I wasn't feeling so well on those days.

It's been good to ride every day. I've started leaving the house later and getting to work earlier. It feels good to not have to rush to meet the bus schedule.

I miss the time spent reading. I haven't read as many novels as I normally do. I think there were only 4 or 5 in the last 2 months. The best was probably Where is Bob? by Irina Paley. I helped convince her to sell it without DRM.

I also read 2 of the Hugo award nominees for this year, The City and the City by China Mieville and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Neither were fantastic.

The City and the City barely had the "sci" aspect of scifi. It was a murder mystery set in two city states with very different cultures set topographically in the same location. There were parts that people could cross from one into the other and parts where different houses would inhabit the same piece of land. The only thing stopping people from breaching was a kind of joint police that kept surveillance on the possible crossover points. I didn't really like that there was no supernatural or superior technological force keeping people in one city or the other, only fear and culture.

The Windup Girl is set in a post cheap energy world where genetic engineering has produced agricultural company made viruses that wiped out all of the plants in the world so they could sell their resistant strains. It was really about a coup and corruption in Thailand.

These novels certainly were not horrible. They just aren't as good as other Hugo award winners I have read.

Also, it's Bike Month. I've participated in the commuter challenge before, but it just hasn't really been a challenge for me since I never commute by car. I've always gotten bored of it and not logged bus trips and bike trips. This year, Jessi and I joined a team, The Wheels of Justice. So far, that has encouraged me to log my trips a bit more. I still don't log them every day, though.

Happy Bike Month!