"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Cats, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog, Sewing on Jul 31st, 2008
So, today I hauled home about 70lb of old kids’ bikes for some of the neighbor kids. Granted 70lb in Roadmasters = two of them. That kind of load makes the ol’ BOB trailer awfully wobbly. I was SO glad to end that ride. Bleh. Joel and I will be going over the bikes to […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jul 30th, 2008
Ruby-roo is still settling in, of course, and she’s been out on her own, on short rations for apparently quite a while. She’s still not really eating and we think that the stress, plus the de-worming, plus just-not-eating for a couple of days has given her a bad stomach ache, making her even more unwilling […]
Posted in Photo entries on Jul 29th, 2008
DSCN1168, originally uploaded by joeldyke. She adopted us this past weekend. Joel’s mom and I were looking at some pictures I’d taken from The Dimebag Show (Melissa had made a pair of carousel bookends out of re-purposed, embellished ceramic toilet-paper-holders ). Anyhow, we were looking at the pictures when Joel, who’d been doing something outside, […]
Posted in Utter Silliness, videos on Jul 27th, 2008
My insane love of musical covers and parodies strikes again! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41APzy5kqBU] The original. “oh. my. god, Becky!” I think I will never get over the amusement of Sir Mix A Lot prancing around on that huge plaster ass. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltjbnyvq_SI] The Jonathan Coulton version. Folktastic! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7deNm63-n0] Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine – the lounge-lizard […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Recommendations on Jul 26th, 2008
I go to an Asian grocery on my lunch break sometimes because it is close to my work and a good place to buy snacks and tea. I’ve got a longtime addiction to Lapsang Souchong and thought I might find some there, but they don’t have it. I’ve been stuck with mail-ordering it from online. […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jul 23rd, 2008
If it weren’t for the Internet, I wouldn’t know anything about pop culture. Good grief. So. Today, this very day, I just learned about a PSA campaign that’s apparently been going on for 19 fucking years. The more you know… Yeah, the more I know, now! I had no idea this was a thing from […]
Posted in biking, Party, Photo entries on Jul 22nd, 2008
While some people were starting out on RAGBRAI, some others were riding their bikes to Roanoke Park in Kansas City and sharing a picnic supper. From the feedback I’ve gotten from various attendees, I think it’s safe to employ the old small-town-newspaper wrap-up phrase, “a good time was had by all.” It was family friendly, […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jul 17th, 2008
I know this is going to sound like “tooting my own horn” here but I’m a pretty unflappable commuter cyclist. It takes a lot to intimidate me, but I’ve got to say that there’s a lot of the Northland (Kansas City, north of the River and north of North Kansas City -trust me it makes […]
[flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornery_chick/2675869286/] Here is a video of Smallcat eating the membrane from the inside of a bell-pepper (that bit of stuff the seeds hang from). Oh and yes, I did meow back at the cat. Force of habit; I meow at my cats. I am a gigantic doofus. Also, yes, Smallcat is rather chubby, but […]
Posted in Cats, Photo entries on Jul 14th, 2008
Smallcat, who is all too cute for her own good, shows me her “good side.” On Sunday I got remarkable co-operation out of the little devil and had sufficient available light to work with so that I could get pictures of her which show off her color, markings, and generally fuzziness to good advantage without […]