"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jan 3rd, 2010
I will be eating the hell out of some St. John’s Wort until I can get some real medicine because right now, this is basically me: and this is my new shirt: Not much else to say other than that life feels like WAY too much work right now, and I’ve got hells of shit […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 12th, 2009
Those words were shrieked at me, Joel, and a tiny runt of a dachshund in a pink satin jacket last night. No, we weren’t playing catch with the aerodynamic-looking little dog. We were riding our bikes down Southwest Boulevard, and chanced to pass a woman who was exiting a building and preparing to enter her […]
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Dec 7th, 2009
I started writing this review (such as it is) before I finished reading the book, but most of the original objections stand. I did finally slog my way through to the conclusion, and while the protagonist (for want of a a better word) does become somewhat less detestable and hateful, the story doesn’t improve significantly. […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on Nov 30th, 2009
Because bicycling has become such a thing lately, bicycling magazines have been popping out like mushrooms after a rainstorm. One of the many new players on the field is a magazine called Cog. It plays to the hipster/fixed-gear/polo/freestyle crowds and features a lot of advertising for products which purport a certain amount of lifestyle cachet […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 24th, 2009
I have a milk-crate of hazardous waste on the back porch right now. At least 90% of this hoard came to me through no fault of my own; it was just hanging around the basement of my old house when I bought it in 2003 and I’m still trying to get rid of it. There […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 12th, 2009
Years ago, there was an online advice column called Etiquette Grrls, wherein two kind of snotty preppy girls dished out snarky etiquette and lifestyle advice to a clueless write-in audience. Then, they got a book deal and published two different etiquette books titled Things You Need To Be Told, and More Things You Need To […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Nov 10th, 2009
Apparently driving a stickshift one day re-trains me immediately. It’s pretty well established that I don’t drive much. It stresses me out, I get lost, etc. But when we were up visiting my folks, I drove Dad’s Jetta – we needed to go in to town and pick some stuff up, and Dad wasn’t up […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Sep 20th, 2009
Urgh, what a nuisance! I wasted the entirety of Friday waiting around at my old house for the gas company to send somebody by to shut off service. Nobody ever came. This makes the second time this has happened. Believe me, the gas company will be hearing from me again on Monday, and while I […]
Posted in "Greenie II", bike commuting, Burley, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Trek 800 on Aug 22nd, 2009
Good grief, I had one of those days! Due to basic laziness, I got a kind of late start heading out the the bank, but I figured that it would be no biggie, since they’re open until noon on Saturdays. So I headed downtown with my paycheck in hand, ready to take care of some […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jul 5th, 2009
Once again I am computerless. I’m not sure what went wrong, but earlier today I was checking my e-mail, looking for news on the presidential coup in Honduras, and listening to a Rhett & Link video, when my computer just suddenly, and without warning, STOPPED. No error messages, no BSOD, nothing. It simply quit running […]