dead battery + tile work = late night

last night I didn't get to bed til 2am. Julie and I are having a new house built and I am doing the tile work myself to save a few dollars. I worked on the tile over the weekend, but still have quite a bit left, so after work yesterday we head out to the house, Julie and the 3 kids in the van, and me in the car with all my tools. Well, I hop in the car and it doesn't start......dead battery, great, so I jump out and start waving my arms and whistle as Julie is heading down the road, she doesn't see me. I get a hold of her on the cell and she comes back to give me a jump start. Since I know I will be working on the tile very late, I decide to take my bike with me so that I can ride home if my car doesn't start again. I ended up working on the tile til 12:30am, go out to start the car....nothing. It's been raining all day and now it's turing into snow. Luckily I had all my rain riding gear with me in my backpack so I suit up and can barely move. It takes me about 40 minutes to go 7 miles into a heavy north wind and snow at 1am. The few cars that I did see probably thought I was one of the stupidist people ever. But I actually had a good time, and was way too warm with too many layers plus the rain gear which doesn't breathe at all. I'm always up for a challenge, although after reading about the www.arrowheadultra.com, my little 7 mile jaunt in 25 degree snow with a head wind was nothing at all.