I left work early enough to make it back out to Yellow River for a second ride on the new bike. It was great fun once again. I think with one more ride the bike will officially be broken in and ready for its initial tune-up at Outback Bikes.

For those who may have seen the recent post regarding a comment from a Delta Airlines employee named Reid, I have an update. Emergency exit rows in some planes do indeed have the same structure as a bulkhead seat. While taking Delta Flight 775 home from LaGuardia, my wife and I noticed that the exit rows in the rear section of the plane (a Boeing 767-300) do indeed have the bulkhead row type of wall in front of them.

Homework, Reid, homework before issuing the blanket authoritative statements.

My wife and I popped into Ray’s Pizza at 319 6th Avenue in New York today. We were in that period between hotel checkout and the flight home, when you are functionally homeless for several hours. Although the restroom door had a makeshift “Out Of Order” sign, folks kept coming in and out of it. Since one of my main drives for going there was to be able to use the restroom (second only to eating), I decided to see what was behind the door.

Huh.

Surpisingly, the toilet seats themselves were clean. The most pressing issue is that you have to be a contortionist to use the clean seat without hitting anything surrounding it with part of your body. I chose the one on the left; I think it was the lack of large holes in the door that sold me on it:
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Well, it turns out someone actually read this weblog other than a friend or family member! Reid, my first non-associate commenter, was apparently ruffled by my entry from my D.C. trip and its allegations toward the airline.

I think he may be correct about the emergency exit row thing; I just don’t know that I care enough to check it out. Just the same, it is neat to know that somehow folks are ending up here and actually reading this stuff.

I went by Sid’s 2nd Avenue Bike Shop in Murray Hill today to see if I could score some little piece of Fisher gear as a Manhattan souvenir. They had shown up as the Fisher dealer closest to my hotel. If they are still a Fisher dealer, you would never know it.

They have Specialized, Rocky Mountain, Cannondale, Giant, and Bianchi bikes all over the racks, and the door is equally-adorned with decals from those vendors. There’s not a shred of Fisher anything that I could see. I sent in a notice to Fisher from the website; somebody needs to either check up on their dealers or keep the website listing up to date.

Sid’s does seem like a good shop, though.