Know what it is to start a business? It's spending half an hour selecting a dual voltage floor pocket to be installed today because your electrician isn't sick this week. It's trying to figure out which is cheaper, having the guys selling you two phones for $2200 pull the wire or your contractor pull the wire because you might not have time to do it when you get back home because you don't know when you're going to get back home. It's calling the greenhouse for the sixth time to make sure they're actually starting your order for $700 worth of houseplants.

On your day off.

The bike ride turns out to be 15 miles, not 14, because the bike lane entrance that Google thinks exists... doesn't. And by adding a mile I get to take 4 miles off of the shittiest city streets in Los Angeles and put 5 of them next to the LA River. Which gives you a glorious choice between "wretchedly fierce headwind" or "swarms of gnats that aim for your eyes." I ordered clear shooting glasses for the nighttime commute last night. My eye is still red from having a bug living in it for 9 miles. But there's a 3 mile stretch where, wretched headwind or not, you're still going faster than the interstate freeway right next to you.

And I think it's going to be manageable.

I'm now carrying around two changes of clothes. I'm sweating out a shirt, shorts, underwear and socks, then taking a shower, then working 10 hours, then sweating out a shirt, shorts, underwear and socks. On the plus side, My Fitness Pal says I cooked off 2200 calories yesterday, in part because I volunteered to make a 5-mile supply run, putting my total mileage at 35.

The fact that I volunteered says a lot about how much I'm enjoying that bike.

I pass maybe 4 homeless encampments. It helps to remind me that my worst days are better than most people's best days and that I've had steady, white-collar employment that pays me an excellent wage and allows me to, realistically, take eight months off a year. Was hanging out with a buddy who was annoyed that someone would ask him to take a job in Australia because it would involve him leaving LA for five months. The job was Thor.

Perspective.