Monday: I awake with a crick in my neck. No biggie really, except that it would feel like someone sticking a fork in my neck when I would look over my left shoulder for traffic. That, and the fact that for some reason the am temperature is in the 40s, and there is a gusty wind the last couple of days, made things tough.
Tuesday: I get about half way to work and my chain snapped. I stood there for a second and thought "no need to look, chain tool is not in the bag today." After examining I noticed the chain did not actually break, but the pin just came out of one of the links. I pushed it back together. At the same time that I realized I could not get it apart, I saw I had not run the chain through my rear derailleur. After a short struggle I got the link apart again, ran the chain through my derailleur and snapped it back again. I figured I could granny gear it back to the house like this. I then noticed I had not run the chain through my front derailleur. I'm on a real streak here. At this point I had lost track of which link had come loose, and could not find it again. So, I just cranked the front derailleur all the way to the outer ring, which allowed me to leave the chain on the inner ring without feeding it through the derailleur. It got me home OK despite the grinding noises from the chain rubbing on the derailleur. The biggest lesson I learned here is that I need to clean my bike more often. I arrived home covered in chain grease/muck.
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