"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800 on May 22nd, 2005
Like most American children born in the 1970s, once I was able to pull myself up standing, I was plunked into a “walker” and allowed to cruise the house under supervision. This meant, apparently, that I importuned customers in the restaurant and attempted to stalk the dogs as they motored around, minding their own doggy […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs on Apr 12th, 2005
I rode my bicycle to work today, as I do most days between March and November. As long as the weather is borderline reasonable and it stays light out late enough to get me home before the streetlights come on, it’s biking season, and I do most of my getting around on two wheels. I’ve […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, wrecks on Oct 5th, 2004
In my lovely little bike-wreck on Friday, not only did I bruise my right knee and elbow, I bent the back wheel on my bike. Talent, eh? No worries; I borrowed the back wheel off Todd’s bike, since he isn’t riding these days anyhow. In other news, I’m hving semi-asthmatic allergy reactions as the cats […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs on Aug 20th, 2004
The remainder of a two-dimensional possum: Due to the close, personal association between me and the streets in my habitual mode of bicycle commuting, I get to see a lot of roadkill. Possums and squirrels mostly, various birds, some cats, the occasional dog, and once in a while a skunk or a raccoon. The thing […]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs on Jul 8th, 2004
Imagine, if you will, that you are a high-strung, irascible woman on a bicycle, coming home from a colossally frustrating day at the office, when some stooge honks his horn at you while you are going under a narrow, dark, skanky, spooky railroad bridge. What would you do? I did what I always do when […]
Posted in bike commuting, Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on May 28th, 2004
I have been as a ravening shrew lately. Okay, so I don’t literally eat more than my weight in food every day, but damn, I have been just a bottomless pit. I guess my metabolism is getting a little hyper from my regular bike-commute, or maybe it is all the coffee I have been drinking, […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Playing With Weather on Apr 22nd, 2004
1. It’s a lot like taking a shower, except without the soap and the naked and the getting clean, and with a whole lot more activity and grit. So not much like a shower at all, except for getting wet. 2. Drivers are even less likely to see you. 3. The grit can get up […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Mar 6th, 2002
A good bath is one of those things that just caps off my day in a spectacular way. Finally we have reliable hot water again, it seems. Whatever the hell they were doing to the water-heater and general water supply, it seems they have stopped. I tell you, lukewarm water baths in the midst of […]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Family, Imports from old blogs, meta on Mar 4th, 2002
D’uh, I really suck at regular updates. I could use the lame excuse that I am busy, but everyone is busy, so nyah. My dad was in town this past weekend, and we had a very nice visit. I’d have liked to take him out sightseeing a bit–we had kicked around the idea of going […]
Posted in bike commuting, Car Drama and trauma, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs on Feb 20th, 2002
Bleh! I need a jump-start to even see if the new starter I put in my car works. Apparently, when I was fucking aroudn with the new ignition switch the weekend before last, I ran the battery down, so now it is *really* no go. Bugger! Better news, the new brakes on my bicycle are […]