I was on my normal morning route to work – a little earlier than usual because I’m backing up my team leader, who’s out today. And I was not looking forward to it on a Friday, and on this particular Friday. So I was bombing along passing big-ass trucks on the right because there was a motorcyclist riding along over on the left, and I wanted to give him plenty of room. And he had that body language that big guys on big bikes get: leaning back in a relaxed, uber-macho position with his big engineer boots propped up on top of his footrests and his legs splayed out at approximately 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock positions. From behind, he looked bad-ass.

His body language said: “I’m so hot, I have an air-cooled crotch!”

Then this great song came on WXRT: “Wore Me Down” by Rachel Yamagata.

The chorus went “You wore me down… like a road.” Great stuff. I need to remember to pick that up later. It was a good start to the day.