They gave the dude a blinker...

Just for biking to work 10 times!

And for every month that I get zapped at least 8 times, they enter me into a drawing for some pretty cool prizes.  How cool is that?

Finally, I can count again!

It's been over three years since I've been able to count, but I got back in the game last month (thanks primarily to my job change).  This time it was the city of Minneapolis conducting the counts and I pitched in two hours of my time to count pedestrians.

I even went above and beyond the call of duty, and in addition to cyclists and walkers, I also kept a tally of bike salmon.  Of the ~80 or so bikers, I was a tad surprised that only 3 of them were "swimming up stream."  

Aslo, first person to correctly identify my location wins a prize:

October Light

(From Monday's commute)

I always love it when the buildings downtown reflect the sun rising over St. Paul.

Q3 Reporting

For the first time in my life, I have been able to engage in regular commuting by bike, mostly due to a job change in July.  I started the new gig on July 30, and as a result I logged more bicycle commutes in Q3 than I probably did for the year in 2011.

Here are some YTD statistics through Q3 of 2012:

Number of days commuting by bike: 35
Percentage of commutes done by bike: 88%

I have also been utilizing a service organization to track my commutes.  The Zap Twin Cities program is doing some very interesting things in interactive commuting software.

Before, I tracked my commutes manually:

Now, it is 100% electronic:

Wave of the future, dude.