I've got the spirit

My boss, a woman of about my age who is extremely athletic and spends her vacations climbing things (like Andes) today said, "You've really caught the bike commuting spirit!"

This was in response to my attending our bi-weekly one-on-one meeting in damp-legged jeans and soaked shoes, because, as I told her, riding in the rain was preferable to getting on a crowded bus.

She has good reason to be surprised: by contrast to her vigorous lifestyle, I must seem a complete slug, good at the computer work, but kind of large and lazy. Cats to her dogs. WriterCon to her rock-climbing. But we have one thing in common now besides our employer, and nobody's more astonished than I am.

I'm really going to have to tackle the Rain Gear In My Size issue, though. Soon.