Posted in bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Within the cycling community Bike To Work Week generates quite a bit of buzz. There are all sorts of promos, events, competitions, and celebrations centered around the simple act of riding a bicycle for basic transportation. While I obviously support the notion of biking to work, errand-running, and pleasure, I can’t seem to [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, the geese have been honking their way northward, and the ones who live here year-round (and there are actually quite a few of those) have been getting more active and bold. On Sunday, Joel and I went riding, and part of our route took us through Berkley Riverfront Park, where the path was laden [...]
Posted in Critical Mass, Playing With Weather, bike commuting, biking on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, last night was the first time since about mid-October that I haven’t had to wear my coat while riding. My god it’s great to be riding in just regular clothes. I am so heartily sick of wearing EVERYTHING to go out and ride my bike. Last night I wore a pair of normal pants, [...]
Posted in Trek 800, bike commuting on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Joel had a vision regarding my old Trek, and I’m no woman to stand in the way of visions especially when the end result is going to be a better bike for my nefarious purposes. The old Trek still had many original parts on it until this winter, Both derailleurs, front and rear brake calipers (but [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, tagged Too lazy to classify on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Man, the weather this week has just been loathesome. It was booger-freezing weather for the first half of the week, then sleet today. I guess it’s supposed to be snowy tomorrow, which is fine by me. Beats freezing-ass cold with wind (Tuesday) and snow tends not to soak in, nor form a crust over your [...]
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, biking on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(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 [...]
Posted in Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m a nosy piece of work, and I dig other folks’ “what’s in my bag” posts and pictures on Flickr, so I thought I would do my own. Also, I had to clean my bag yesterday (Exxon-style glitter spill), so I figured since everything was out of it, I might as well take a [...]
Posted in bike commuting, tagged other people's children on January 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There’s a kid I encounter on my rides sometimes who’s an awfully mouthy young twerp. He’s somewhere in the 10-to-12 range, which as I recall are premium years for being a mouthy little twerp. Whenever he happens to see me or Joel, he calls out, “hey, look at that freak on a bike,” [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This morning, before I was halfway to work, my eyesight was partially obscured by an icicle formed by my own tears clinging to the lashes over my left eye. Luckily that’s my bad eye, so it didn’t foul me up too badly. By the time I got to work, it was a pea-sized lump of [...]
Posted in Adventures, Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting on December 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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.
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