Well…it has been kind of an odd day and I thought I’d do one more of these to describe it since I am a couple behind for the month…this morning, it was about 53 degrees after the grocery run and I got back here with the intention of getting on the bike in shorts for the final time this year with the big weather change that is coming. It was a good ride until I got out a few miles and the shifter unit on the handlebars broke so I could only downshift…I am glad I figured that out before I got all the way down to low but even stuck in fourth it was still a long, slow trip back here…once I got back here I took the thing apart and found that it had finally just worn out and the connection between the lever and the shifter pawl had broken…had to order another one that doesn’t match since they don’t make that one anymore but that really didn’t bother me…after all, the bike is 8 years old now and showing the wear….the part was only 20 bucks delivered but I won’t get until early next week so the calorie counting starts today to try to take 800 a day out…not sure if that can be done since I’m at about 1400 a day now and 600 is just not enough. Oh, well….