"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, Family on Sep 24th, 2009
I’m a total bum, and didn’t say a peep about Joel’s and my anniversary, but this past Sunday, it was a year since we did our “I do-ing.” We went out to dinner on Friday and took Joel’s mom out and had a joint celebration, since her birthday was on Saturday. One year ago yesterday, [...]
Posted in Adventures, Sewing, Well I'll Be Darned, You have got to be kidding me! on Sep 15th, 2009
make trashmonade? Yes, yes, I directly cribbed that from Strongbad and piemonade. Pretty much everything funny I’ve ever said was probably cribbed from somebody funnier than I am. Wit by proxy, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve been makin’ some trashmonade just lately. You’re probably looking at this picture right now and thinking, “WTF does this lady’s [...]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 4th, 2009
IMG_0511, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I pushed my way through a home-made revolving door into a diaphanous, amorphous, rustling pink antechamber. It was not unlike being encapsulated in a gigantic chewing-gum bubble. This was the entrance to Jaime Burkhart’s conceptual installation project, “Great Accommodations!“ The piece takes its form as a large, inflatable maze, a [...]
Posted in Adventures, Travel on Aug 14th, 2009
Man, I’ve been just plain itching to go somewhere! Preferably on my bicycle, with all my necessary gear stuffed into panniers and/or bunjied on to a rack. What really kicked it into gear was meeting up with and hanging out with Jacquie Phelan & the 42-Below North team (and subsequently reading her blog and some [...]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 17th, 2009
So yesterday evening, Joel was off to Kung Fu class, and I was considering my options of leftovers from the fridge, maybe re-watching one of our DVDs, and finishing up cutting out this suit jacket I’ll be working on one of these days. As I was just about to have a rummage around the fridge, [...]
Posted in Adventures, Distractions, Photo entries on Jul 9th, 2009
We met up with Dr. Greg & his daughter Kayla in Parkville today and rode the river back to Kansas City. Greg had recently acquired a sweet vintage aluminum canoe and was itching to get it out on the river, and I’d been stoked about spending some more time on the Mighty Mo after the [...]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness on Jun 21st, 2009
The formidable prow of my trashboat veered toward a parked car. I corrected, and the whole thing lurched toward the oncoming lane. I corrected again and nearly lumbered straight into the curb in my own lane. I could see that this was going to be a very long half mile ahead of me, and I [...]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, beer and/or homebrewing, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, Other Bike Stuff, Trashboat Shenanigans, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jun 5th, 2009
Yep, it’s gonna be one of those days and one of these entries. 1. They’ve been playing some butt-ass-awful music at work lately. Like worse than usual, and usual appears to be Adult-Contemporary Hits of the 1980s and ’90s. The recent streak of aural atrocities however, really has me scratching my head. Are they trying [...]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er on Jun 1st, 2009
In the immortal words of Daft Punk: Once again, I tried, tried again, and failed, failed again, but oddly, this year I don’t feel nearly so bad about my personal defeat as I did last year. Possibly because I was among a very large majority that bailed this year. Of 89 starters, only 17 finished [...]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Family, Party, Redline Monocog 29er, Utter Silliness on May 26th, 2009
I rode the Redline to work today to make sure that all is in good order for the Dirty Kanza, which is only days away at this point. All, indeed, is. That bike is such a pleasure and a joy to ride in any of its many guises. For the upcoming weekend, it’s done up [...]
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