New Trailer
I got my new bicycle trailer and put it together on Wednesday:

Click on the image for a large version. It's very nice. It is designed specifically to hold four 18 gallon rubbermaid containers but it's just a truss frame (mostly made of aluminum tubing but with fairly heavy steel tubing at three key load bearing points) so I can throw pretty much anything I want on it up to about 300 pounds. I can carry lots of things on this trailer that just won't fit in my car (not that I've used my car once since February yet) and I think it would be perfect to take to burning man and several other similar events to haul all kinds of crap around.
More details about the trailer can be found at the vendors page (bikesatwork.com).
I've still yet to get the bicycle that I ordered in early March that I had ordered slightly odd because I wanted to get a specific feature set but still be able to accomodate this type of trailer (I knew I wanted one but didn't order the trailer until mid april). I'm rather annoyed at that.
As an aside, I was going to title this post "The Envy of Recycling Pickers Everywhere", but I felt that too many people would take it wrong. I've often seen people collecting cans and bottles for the 5 cent deposits with impressive things they've done to their bicycles (or other container vehicles) and been genuinely amazed. While I'm quite content to get blank stares from people when I make a really dumb joke it's rather frustrating (and sometimes hurtful) that people will assume I'm putting down someone this way. I can remember vividly the time I made a pun based on "black sheep of the family" (click for the first google hit when I looked it up to write this) during a long string of (mostly other people) making silly comments based on anthropomorphizing sheep and the people around me just assumed that I was making a racial comment and the conversation stopped dead.