"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, 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, 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 biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, videos on Dec 18th, 2007
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 weekend […]
Posted in biking, Cats, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, Sewing, Shopping on Dec 15th, 2007
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 early. […]
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, 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, biking, dumb things I have done, Playing With Weather, Schwinn Suburban on Sep 19th, 2007
Man, I had about the best ride home that I’ve had in ages. It was raining, and the temperature was just about perfect. I was on my singlespeed road bike, and the stars aligned, the elements balanced, and it was jut fucking awesome is all. It was one of those nights when traffic was playing […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Playing With Weather on Dec 7th, 2005
The title of this entry is for the benefit of my sister, who reads my LJ, and who might talk to Mom before I do next. Don’t need to make Mom worry 😉 Anyway. I had the longest damn 3.5-mile bike ride of my fucking life this afternoon. We got something on the order of […]