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 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 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, Playing With Weather, Utter Silliness, biking on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Adventures, Playing With Weather, Sewing, Utter Silliness, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Distractions, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, biking, videos on December 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
But before I get on with the recaps from Sunday, I’d like to draw your attention to a new blog in town - Team Sexypants, authored by none other than Big Grin himself, joEL! His header image is a picture I took of him one of the nights we were camping out during our [...]
Posted in Cats, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, Sewing, Shopping, biking on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I had no big hairy plans today, honestly. Maybe go for a bike ride and take some pictures, weather permitting, probably sit around in front of the fireplace reading and occasionally shoving a cat’s butt off my book. I didn’t expect to actually get anything accomplished.
It all started out with me waking up [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
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 Playing With Weather, bike commuting on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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