"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Trek 800 on Dec 11th, 2008
Yep, I rode my old-trusty Trek 800 today to run a few errands. Too bad I managed to complete none of my errands. It was an extravagantly frustrating day, to be honest. I had two pieces of business to accomplish. #1 was to go downtown and correct the ownership record on my old house. For […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Redline Monocog 29er, Too lazy to classify on Oct 8th, 2008
A not so amusing side-note I failed to mention the last time I logged on (by the way, I’m in Kingman, AZ right now…Hi!) is that I lost my driver’s license very, very early on in the trip…like possibly on the airplane heading for CA. Anyway, for the past two-ish weeks, I have had no […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Sewing on Aug 24th, 2008
I need to get a different iron. This one, the temperature setting is too easy to change…if you bump it it can end up getting turned WAY up…then this can happen: This was going to be my wedding dress. It may yet, if I can get up the heart to re-cut that back bodice section, […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Aug 13th, 2008
I’m feeling a little testy on account of stress and annoyance, and was thinking about some of the incredibly unhelpful things some people sometime say to those who are wallowing in AAAARGHH! 1. I always get annoyed out of proportion by people who say “ Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Aug 13th, 2008
My fucking computer has died. AGAIN! I swear I’m cursed and it’s jinxed. I don’t know. It’s yet ANOTHER bad hard-drive. This one was brand new in May, so we’re not talking about something that’s seen a lot of use. I shut it off when it’s not in use, it’s unplugged when not in use, […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, Too lazy to classify on Aug 8th, 2008
I will do a short list of “things about me that you might not know.” 1. I think insects are fascinating. Bumblebees are probably my favorite because they’re so cute and fuzzy and noisy. They also fit perfectly into the funnel-shaped middle of a morning glory blossom, and it’s amusing to watch a fat bee […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jul 17th, 2008
I know this is going to sound like “tooting my own horn” here but I’m a pretty unflappable commuter cyclist. It takes a lot to intimidate me, but I’ve got to say that there’s a lot of the Northland (Kansas City, north of the River and north of North Kansas City -trust me it makes […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jul 9th, 2008
I got a lot of traffic from last night’s post and received a personal e-mail taking me to task for “armchair quarterbacking” the interview. To that, I must concede a point. The line I was called on was, Mo and Tracey, if they had any goddamn sense could have made hay on how much fun […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Jul 8th, 2008
I’m not a real regular reader of Jezebel; I check in weekly to see if there’s a new Fine Lines book review, and then I scram. Most of the site just isn’t my style. It’s very glib, kind of snotty, and often “dishes” about celebrities and microcelebrities of the New York party scene. It can […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Shopping on Jun 13th, 2008
This picture, from Jeff Perry, is ample evidence that it wouldn’t kill me to wear some dang clothes that were something akin to my actual size. If I wanted to look lumpy, dumpy, frumpy, and generally awful, I would continue to dress this way in public. Despite all photographic evidence to the contrary (and there’s […]