On Monday I rode my fancy (high-pressure tires) bike to work (the one that Chris Gondolfo gave me). At one point the back wheel got off-center and I had to stop and adjust it, but otherwise all was well. As soon as it came time to go home, however, I noticed that the back tire was somewhat deflated. Fortunately for me, I had my trusty (brand new and never tested) portable (tied to my bike) tire inflater with me, and an adapter to hook it to my tubes. After letting all the air that was in my tire out, I found out that the pump was completely broken (it had a huge leak). So I started riding home the normal route with a flat tire. That felt awful, so somewhere between East Olin Ave and Beld Street I got off, leaned by bike against a pole, and created a sign (out of an old receipt) that said

Then I walked home.

I had a dream that I was walking along a path at night with Fizz and A-Day (or a Ben; I'm never quite sure). It was similar in construction to the bike paths I take to work every day. To our left the ground sloped down and there was a creek, and further away there were the lights of a city. To our right the ground sloped up and there were trees so you couldn't see very far. And straight ahead the path turned slightly left and went over a bridge. When we got to the bridge we found the area between the railings filled with what looked like a cloud, but when we walked into it it was thick like some sort of foam. A bunch of black ants came out of it and started biting me. Usually I like ants, but these ones were really big (with big square heads) and scary and trying to bite us, so I was trying to fling them off.

I spent the next day at work writing a program called "NWinPinger". It had nothing to do with Widen, but I called the activity "Learning Visual Basic" (which it was), and it's not like I had anything really work-related to do for most of that time anyway (because I don't know anything), so it's all OK.

And the bike that I left by the light pole is not there any more. :D

Dreamt about making a ZDoom level with barons that you had to hit with clubs. It was going to be a really cool level. Somehow I even managed to make a nice looking sunset sky texture.

Oh, and in case anyone else ever has the problem (on Windows XP, at least) where items in the startup folder get started twice and are listed in MSConfig as being in both the 'Startup' and 'Common Startup' folders, I figured out what causes this:

The problem was a registry setting. Item 'Startup' in
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
was set to the same value as in
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
so I changed it from
  %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
to
  %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
and now all is well.

WHOOPS: That doens't always work. Use TweakUI/My Computer/Special folders to fix your Startup folder permanently.