50 days to go!

There is not a lot of excitement in this particular update -- I'm basically just sitting in front of a computer during my lunchbreak typing gibberish. To be honest I'm feeling a little frustrated at the combination of heat and time constraints that is preventing me from getting on my bike and just pedalling for a good solid nine or ten hours. It could take a while before I get that sort of time, given the way things normally are at this time of year, but I'll just have to see what happens. Right now I just want to get the hell out of suburbia for an extended period of time and explore somewhere.

I am consoling myself somewhat by the fact that today it's officially just 50 days until I land in Christchurch to pedal around New Zealand's South Island. Most things are already sorted out in respect of that, but there is still a slight quandry about which bike I should take. It probably arises because I haven't had a long tour on the hybrid yet (three day tours do not count), and the slightly lower gearing of the MTB could be handy in places like Crown Range or the Banks Peninsula where there are substantial climbs on dirt roads.

In other news, a "cyclist" yelled at me to get off the road and onto the footpath on the ride home from work yesterday. It was hardly a matter of concern to me as he didn't seem terribly interested in following me through the traffic to make it happen. Of course, there were various retorts I could have used -- "get a job" would have been accurate, but it only came to my mind later on. There was another retort that did come to mind at the time, but I'm glad I held that one back. After all, he might have taken the "offer" seriously, and I had to excrete out of that orifice later on. Seriously though, I'm just too cynical to be surprised by things like that anymore, and too arrogant to waste my time on them.