"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, Playing With Weather on Jan 2nd, 2008
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, 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 bike commuting, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, videos on Dec 20th, 2007
This week has been gorgeous in the weather department. Gorgeous for December anyhow. I’ve ridden on my lunch break or extra after work every day so far, and I plan to do the same tomorrow. Being as it has been basically cold and shitty the previous couple of weeks, I had been racking up a […]
Posted in bike commuting, Recommendations on Dec 13th, 2007
I read this post of Gwadzilla’s today, and it really resonated with me, because he describes almost exactly my philosophy and methodology of commuter-riding and road-sharing. I’m going to post it in its entirety and then encourage you again to go and read more of his blog. If you’re a cyclist, especially if biking is […]
Posted in bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Playing With Weather on Dec 7th, 2007
Dang, I was all fired up and feeling hopeful yesterday when I looked out an office window and could hardly see the building across the way. The air was thick with snowflakes. Yesss! Finally, the first snow ride of the year. Snow is the consolation we get for what is otherwise about 4 months of […]
Posted in bike commuting, Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos on Dec 6th, 2007
When I go to Joel’s house, I frequently take this strange little bike/pedestrian bridge across the Kaw River. It’s a great little cut-across which eliminates a pretty nasty convergence of two interstate ramps and three surface streets. It’s also got some nifty artwork on it. Randy Niere, a friend and fellow photographing bike nut, has […]
Posted in bike commuting, Playing With Weather on Nov 24th, 2007
Well, we got a little tiny dusting of snow on Wednesday, and it’s snowing again right now. It’s not going to amount to much this time around, but it reminds me that I should switch to riding my old mountain bike almost exclusively, because it sucks to get caught at work with a slick-skinny tire […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Other Bike Stuff, Playing With Weather, Sewing on Nov 7th, 2007
Daylight savings time, one of the goofiest ideas ever to roll out of Ben the F’s industriously fevered brain, has hit once again. I’ll refrain from the trite bitching about what an artificial pain in the ass it is, because it gives me a good excuse to play with my new, super-cool, kickass headlight. Last […]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 2nd, 2007
Yesterday I felt terribly smug about how my journal has become significantly less whiney in recent times. I sure set myself up for something, let me tell you. I had something akin to the adult version of Alexander’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day today.  It was a day of bungling, being thwarted, and […]