At long last: video of my bike ride to work

Finally, the video of my bike ride to work is ready. It even includes a cameo appearance by Baby, my Chihuahua, who plays herself.

Special thanks to Todd Mizener, director of photography at the Moline Dispatch Publishing Co., for putting it all together for me -- and to Todd Welvaert, one of our editors, who loaned me his Flip camera, which I subsequently broke. Sort of.

Due to my overzealous tightening of the Flip camera to the super-clamp I had put on my handlebars, I could not get the camera off the post when the batteries ran out half way into my ride to work Thursday morning. So I then switched to my digital camera, put it in video mode, and continued to film as I held the camera in one hand and steered the bike with the other.

Then I ran out of storage space -- still a half-mile away from work.

So on Friday, in the rain, I filmed the last half-mile to the office.

Hope you like it.