There are bright lights shining on the house next door to mine. I think someone is making a movie. Maybe an indie film or Friday Night Lights? The morning, i noticed someone had put cones up in front of the house marking off the parking spots, and last weekend, the neighbor was pruning the two long bushes out front.
I had a good week. Monday night i went on the midnight Full Moon ride. I felt so happy to be with a bunch (like 150?) other bicyclist cruising through Austin late at night without the cars. Everyone was very friendly and cool. It was like a wandering party of coolness. We left from Town Lake, went up to Mt. Bonnell, back across and i dropped my chain on 34th near Lamar and lost the main group. (I found a break-off group that was heading S. on Guad, followed them long enough to find out the main group had gone elsewhere and then i just went home 'cause it was three AM.)
I can't remember the last time i felt so enthused about an "event" with other people. I felt safer 'cause i knew i was with like-minded people; being in that group made me less likely to be hit, even with all of the drunken chaos of the ride itself. But it's a herd of people who are normally loners, so it's like being in a pack of cats or mountain goats or something. I'm really looking forward to the next one.