surprisingly warm withspotted drizzle, the kind of day it would remiss not to take advantage of... startled by a spike of common sense as i stepped down from the kerb, switching thoughts of a wander up xianshan for a bike ride through the city, taking the river path when i stumbled upon it after the usual collection of unexpected circles and wrong turns... later the weather forecast is for a sudden drop in temperature, down into single figures, cold enough in the city to make me wonder about the possibility of some slush up on yangmingshan...