I’m sweaty. It’s hot out, and I’ve been biking. But there’s a quart of GoSpo in the freezer, so it must be true that the universe always balances itself. Ying and the yang. Carl Sagan.

I would like to make a few observations on the importance of alone time. Number one, it’s important. Number two, I’ve been doing a lot of it lately. Spending time alone is right behind oxygen and chocolate in terms of things necessary to my survival. That’s it.

I’m not sure why, but riding a bike permits one to be friendly and outgoing in a way that is not otherwise socially permissible. Riding a bike makes it absolutely okay to smile and wave to pedestrians and people hanging out in their front yards. Riding a bike makes you instant friends with other people riding their bikes. If you’re just out walking and you pass somebody else who’s just walking, you don’t ring bells at each other and greet one another with cheerful abandon, but on a bike it’s totally acceptable. Riding a bike also makes it totally okay to enjoy yourself like it’s 1999, or some other year when you were younger and more carefree. Thank God for summer.

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