"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs on Sep 21st, 2005
Get home, take off your helmet, go into the bathroom and discover not one, not two, but three dead, dried-sweat-encrusted gnats* lodged in your eyebrows.** I’m having a hard time deciding what is worse, the fact that there were gnats stuck in my eyebrows, or the fact that my eyebrows can foster so many gnats. […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness on Sep 19th, 2005
me or a suburban trophy wife? Please explain why you answered as you did. I’m bored!
Posted in Cats, Imports from old blogs on Sep 16th, 2005
A measure of how bad of a bike dork I am. Even the damn cat has a chainring tattoo. Er. Yes, I keep my bike(s) inside. And yes, I am concerned about the massive stripe of filthy grease on my poor cat’s haunch. I’m going to try to clean it off with a damp cloth, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Lists on Sep 16th, 2005
1. I don’t own any decent belts, and today I strongly considered leaving my chain-and-lock around my waist in order to keep my pants from shifting around. I bring my bike into the office and put it in the supply room across from where I sit, so I wouldn’t need the lock anyway until my […]
Posted in bike commuting, Burley, Imports from old blogs on Sep 12th, 2005
I blew a tire and fucked up my tail light today. Unrelated incidents. I don’t know when I lost my taillight, but it was on the back of my bike this morning and the light part was gone when I got home tonight. The backing, mount, and clip are still attatched to the seatpost, but […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness on Sep 12th, 2005
Confession: I can’t tell the difference between George Clooney and David Duchovny and generally conflate the two. They are “That Guy Who Was Known As Kind Of A Heart-Throb In That Show I Never Watched.”
Posted in Adventures, biking, Burley, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, wrecks on Sep 6th, 2005
I had a pretty lousy day today. I’ve been off kilter for about a week. Stressed. Depressed. Feeling horrible that all I can do at the moment for anyone suffering on account of the Katrina disaster is donate to the Red Cross, and I can’t donate much, at that, because I’m broke–feedback loop into stress, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Sep 5th, 2005
I bought a buttload of Granny Smith apples last week. Like about 5lb, because they were cheap, and I LOVE Granny Smith apples. Not quite as much as I love Braeburn apples, but I sure like 'em a lot. So I get my ginormous sack of apples home, and discover that they're not just green […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, Super-Short Entries on Sep 5th, 2005
One of the bad things about being both a klutz and a greasemonkey is that you can get confused and spend a goodly amount of time in the bathtub, trying to scrub one of your own bruises off!
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Schwinn Suburban on Sep 3rd, 2005
Well, I was working on that old bike tonight. I took the crank out today and cleaned the bearings and re-packed them. I also took the bearings out of the rear wheel, cleaned them, and re-packed that. I’m happy with how the crank spins now–smooth and silent, but the rear hub still seems a little […]