"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 30th, 2006
I had my first snow ride of the season today. Big fun, as usual. Since I've been doing more proper offroad riding (and Friz) this past year, my bike-handling skills have improved immensely, and I rode to work on the ice and home from work through a couple of good, solid inches of snow cover […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 27th, 2006
So, I've embarked upon redecorating the living room and dining room, a project I've wanted to tackle ever since I first stepped foot into this house over three years ago. I'll be excavating something like 80 years accumulation of misguided wallpaper and paint accretions. Okay, in the two aforementioned rooms, this is only like 3-4 […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 26th, 2006
I'm willing to bet that I had a very different Thanksgiving from what most folks did. It was a bike-picnic day. Joel and I went out for a nice spin on our respective singlespeed Schwinns. I took a picture of our two bikes parked together in front of the Sibley, MO post office, however I […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 22nd, 2006
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBD6koYZHXY] Part one—David Bowie eyes! the Tale of the Forehead Hickey.
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 20th, 2006
I did, like, everything this past weekend. 1. Finished packing ALL of Todd's stuff, and staged it all in the living room, orderly as you please. I'd already had most of it boxed up and out there, but I did a final push, since he's taking a few things up to his parents' place over […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 17th, 2006
Hummm…a fun old song about a girl travelling to Kansas City to meet up with her boyfriend. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kK6EjZCps]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 15th, 2006
When I was 12, I reckoned myself to have outgrown my old banana-seat bike. It was a 20-inch-wheeled Stingray knockoff from sometime probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s, a heavy little chunk of steel with ape-hanger handlebars, a “denim” covered banana-seat, and a fade-away metallic blue paint scheme which graded from dark blue […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 14th, 2006
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJn-HoKJoE] I think I gave myself a decent haircut: Though I am a little concerned about its trendiness. I've been cutting my own hair now for nearly a year, with mixed success. Sometimes, like last year right after Thanksgiving, it comes out way cute, and sometimes, like after New Years, it basically comes out like […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 14th, 2006
I'd like to start writing again, start posting again. Sharing my bicycle adventures, my silly stories of childhood, pictures of my cats being hairy little fiends, tales of my foolish misadventures, sewing and art projects. I'd like to get back to a semblance of normal. A new, improved, different normal. Normal looks different for me […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Nov 11th, 2006
B is for bicycle: B is for bicycle: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCBoCOSlmlQ]