"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, biking on Feb 7th, 2008
(note: I wrote this up yesterday mostly in word, then couldn’t post it because the ‘net connection crapped out. Therefore this is basically yesterday’s news. Today was a largely snow and slush-free ride and I did an impromptu photo-ride on my way home which I will write a little about later) I got a nice […]
Posted in Adventures, Family, Photo entries on Jan 15th, 2008
Yeah, the winter blah’s have set in on me, which is why it has now taken me nearly three days to post a weekend wrapup consisting of a couple of paragraphs, a couple of photographic links, and not much else. I can’t shake this hibernatin’ feeling. So, on with the entry I started writing on […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Playing With Weather, Utter Silliness on Dec 31st, 2007
1. On Friday night, the usual chaos that is Critical Mass ensued. It was a much smaller and more subdued group than usual…because it was butt-freezingly cold. Actually, it’s been worse at various points recently – it was darn near reasonable Friday night, but reasonable for December in Kansas City is still plenty stinkin’ cold. […]
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Dec 27th, 2007
And today I come bearing photographic evidence of the unexpected urban ungulates: Behold! The zoomed-in pictures kind of suck because I had to use my digital zoom which means the image quality suffers. But. Goats! I created a set and called it Goatography. I hope to get some better shots another day.
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Playing With Weather, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Dec 26th, 2007
This morning was shaping up to suck outrageously. I was about halfway to work, and my back tire blew out. 2″ long rip in one sidewall; you could see daylight all the way through. I tried to boot it with one of those extra-big patches from one of my patch kits, but no dice. In […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Photo entries on Nov 25th, 2007
Yesterday Christi and I went on a side-streets exploration ride in the West Bottoms. We had no big agenda, just being outside and riding our bikes was all that was planned. Since were were just kind of exploring and taking our time, it wasn’t any big problem for me to stop and take pictures whenever […]
Posted in Adventures, Photo entries, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
Well, I may technically fail NaBloPoMo on account of not posting each of the entries I’m going to write during my stay in New Orleans, but I will write nightly my impressions of the trip, and I’ll get them up online when I get home. Since I’ve been having to tote this portly laptop all […]
Posted in Adventures, Photo entries, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
Today was largely a free-day, with the exception of a span of time in the evening during the event Grand Opening when we had to man the booth and start spreading the good word. The Grand Opening was a total zoo, but more about that later. Today, mostly, I had free rein to roam around […]
Posted in Adventures, Travel, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 23rd, 2007
I think I forgot to mention this yesterday, but people are <i>freaks</i> about giveaways at conventions. Seriously, people were just meandering around the convention hall, picking up schwag at random and in bulk. People were stopping at our booth asking, “what’s this,†then requesting to take three. It was astounding. People were wandering around with […]
Posted in Adventures, Well I'll Be Darned, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 12th, 2007
I’m headed out of town again tomorrow. I’m one of four representatives from my department holding down the fort at a big civic government convention in New Orleans. I’ll confess to you that I am pretty darn stinkin’ nervous right now, because I have never been to a trade show, let alone worked at one, […]