"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, Mountain Biking on Jun 27th, 2006
Audrey, don’t tell Mom, PLEASE! So, Monday night, I played Friz for a couple of hours, which got a little rowdy, and per expectation, I fell off my bike a few times, but I didn’t personally incur any major injuries. Actually, only one injury of note took place, when Static re-sprained his wrist. I bruised […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs on Jun 26th, 2006
When you realize, halfway to work, that you’re wearing two different shoes and you’ve forgotten your I.D. badge, what do you do? In my case, I soldiered on, knowing I’d look like an utter doofus and have my bag searched at the building entrance. I figured I’d rather be on time and look like a […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on Jun 25th, 2006
What you need is a bagel, a tomato straight out of the garden, a bit of cream-cheese, paper-thin slices of red onion, and slices of Swiss cheese. Use the cream-cheese to glue the tomato and onions to the bagel halves, and layer the Swiss heese between the tomato and onions. Another good variant is mashed […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs, Schwinn Suburban on Jun 24th, 2006
It’s raining. Which means no trail riding for Michelle tonight. Fie! Woe! Crapitty-creap-crap-crap. And maybe I’ll do the brakes on the Schwinn in the interim, and go ride that around a bit tomorrow. I thought it might actually be easier to pick stuff up off the ground from that bike, since it basically doesn’t have […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Imports from old blogs, Lists, Mountain Biking on Jun 23rd, 2006
So in lieu of any kind of coherent, sensible, serious, and meaty writng, I’m going to give you a brain-dump of snipppets. 1. My hair remains challenging and defiant. I have a tendency to shower or bathe in the evening, before I go to bed, because I have a vast aversion to going to bed […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 22nd, 2006
The Greenhouse Effect made a big impression on me when I was a kid. Environmental degredation scared the everlovin' shit out of me, to be honest. There were pictures in our science books of ponds full of dead fish killed by toxic runoff, brown skies over sprawling cities, and prognostications that, by right now, we'd […]
Posted in Adventures, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800 on Jun 21st, 2006
I went out to practice picking stuff up off the ground while riding my bike once again today. I heeded Ryan’s advice and practiced with a can for the time being. I had an old plastic coffee can on the back porch, left over from christmas goodies.   I try to amass a number of these […]
Posted in biking, Distractions, Imports from old blogs on Jun 20th, 2006
For the first year I lived in Kansas City, I hardly knew anyone. Just a couple buddies from college we moved down here to be nearer to, and I knew some people from at work. Our social life was pretty slow. We were broke. I hated my job. Todd was out of work. We lived […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness on Jun 20th, 2006
I’ve taken up with the hobby of Friz as of yesterday. I gotta tell ya, that shit’s addictive. As improbable as the feat of a bunch of bike-riders pitching around a frizbee while on the wheel sounds, it’s mad fun. I can’t pick the frisbee up from the ground just yet, but I’m practising. I […]
Posted in biking, Burley, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, videos on Jun 16th, 2006
Last night, on my way back home from the Blue Moose ride, I had a hell of a stiff neck. I rode in the drops most of the way down to Prairie Village and most of the way through the group ride, because I can brake WAY better in that position, but in the interest […]