You young punks complaining about getting old really annoy me!
Unfortunately, I'm in the midst of a non-age-related funk that I probably won't get out of 'til spring since the weather 'round here just jumped from Indian summer to middlin' winter. The wife and I went through a major change in our routines in August that has us commuting together. We're both the kind that finds it difficult to get out of the office at 5:00, and that coupled with the necessarily longer commute, the shortened days and a pile-up of weekend commitments has kept me off the bike for more than a couple of casual neighborhood rides through a couple of months of gorgeous weather. This has been hard as we commute along a parkway that is well-populated with cyclists.
I'm hoping that I can talk the wife into making a schedule shift to get us into and out of the office an hour earlier starting next spring, and I'll drag her butt with me when I go for the after-work ride. At least, that's the plan...