Okay, so today I'm driving along to work, and everyone else on the road is pretty much minding their own business, the cars whizzing down the road, the lady on the bicycle staying reasonably close to the curb and not slowing down traffic at all, and it's all moving along just fine.

Then the car next to the bicycle accelerates for a second and makes an abrupt right-hand turn.... And, yes, he turned into the bicycle, sideswiped it, and knocked it and the bicyclist over.

It would have taken the guy three seconds to let the bicyclist through the intersection, but nooo, he was so busy with his own importance and his morning commute that he assumed...I don't know. He assumed the bicycle was stationary and the second it disappeared from the corner of his eye, it disappeared off the planet or something.

The woman was riding down the street, wearing neon yellow clothes and, thank goodness, a helmet. The driver was totally at fault.

I would have stopped, but several other people did and I saw the woman stand up and brush herself off, so she wasn't badly hurt.

Also? Keyless Joe forgot his key again this morning, but at least he said, thanks when I opened the door for him. I'm trying to cut him the kind of slack I'd like to be cut if I was faced with moving to Pittsburgh.

Also? We installed a new phone/internet system here at the office a couple of weeks ago. Up until today, the days when the phones stayed up, the internet & e-mail went down, and when e-mail & internet were working, the phones kept going down. And or some inexplicable reason, the fax machines would receive faxes but won't send them. Today the phones and the 'net access are both working, but the fax machines are still funky.

After a 1-1/2 hour phone call with the tech guy, we managed to the one of the two fax machines working.

I'm just saying. It's a triumph of willpower that I'm not sitting in Starbucks swilling lattes and eating massive amounts of pumpkin bread at this moment. I'm exhausted and I've barely had any time to do any work at all today.

But I'm not whining. Whatever else happens today, no one nearly killed me as I was trying to get to work.