I'm usually pretty lazy about checking my mailbox even when I know there might be things in it. After an awesome Sunday, I returned home to find someone parked in my assigned parking spot. I had a fantastic day, so rather than get bitter about it, I just took a little journey around to the back lot and over the three most horrific speed bumps I semi-regularly have to encounter. It was on my walk back to my place I passed by my mailbox and figured what the hell, I'll check it.

When I saw the yellowish envelope I immediately remembered my Arbitrary Day Plus gift should have arrived this weekend. Sure enough "c/o bboe" was in the address line. I almost immediately tore open the package, but I refrained so I could first take a picture. After that was done (photo #1), I then opened the package to reveal its contents (photos #2 and #3).

I wrote in my likes/dislikes, "any cycling related gadgets would be awesome." Well my Arbitrary Day Plus came through with the perfect gift, a SIGMA BC1009 Bike Computer!

Monday morning I woke up, installed it on my bike (photo 3) and went for my usual 15.2 mile ride. It is so amazing to observe and adjust my riding habits based on how fast I am going. Plus, it turns out what I thought to be 15.2 miles, was today 15.5 miles (photo 4), and I now have a much more accurate measure of how long my rides take which is way better than computing the time (photo 5) from my wall clock when I leave and return.

Thanks Stephanie for the amazing bike computer!