"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, videos on Apr 13th, 2010
I let Minnie outside for a little while today. Griswald is banned from the Great Outdoors because he always gets “the call of the wild” and tries to break for broader and greener pastures. Then I have to chase all over the neighborhood trying to recapture him. Also, he is very, very, very stupid and [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting on Dec 26th, 2009
since I rode home from work in yet another BEAUTIFUL snowstorm. I had a monstrously shitty day at work today. It was almost all of the normal frustrations inherent in my job (and they are manifold and plentiful) times about 10 because of the snow storm. My job involves making transportation arrangements for people who [...]
Posted in Playing With Weather, bike commuting, videos on Dec 24th, 2009
Man, I had the BEST ride home from work today. It was snowing like all get-out and I have this crazy powerful headlight (a Niterider Tri-Newt) which was illuminating the swirling flakes. The streetlights were doing a pretty good job of it, too. It was snowing pretty heavily and was also windy, and with all [...]
Posted in "Greenie II", Burley, Cats, Playing With Weather, bike commuting on Nov 21st, 2009
Today started out a little frustrating. I took off from home to head to work, and heard a weird noise coming from my back wheel. Turns out a staple had made itself at home in the tread of my tire. I tried to pull it out, but one of the ends broke off in the [...]
Posted in Adventures, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er, biking, dumb things I have done 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, Art Projects & Making Things, Party, Playing With Weather, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), biking on Jan 23rd, 2009
Well, we’re back to winter again. Yesterday it was around 60, and I rode around town sans jacket, gloves, and hat. Today it is around 30, and I will be bundling up right and proper to head out to a job interview this afternoon. But yesterday was so gorgeous you could easily forget that we’re [...]
Posted in Fashion, Playing With Weather, bike commuting on Jan 15th, 2009
typical cold-weather gear, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. My cold-weather biking gear has gotten a little more sophisticated since my early days of year-round riding, though it is still quite a hodge-podge of thrifted clothing, cycling-specific clothing, and whatever the heck else I can pile on. At least I no longer wear the goggles or the [...]
Posted in Home Improvements, Playing With Weather, bike commuting on Jan 15th, 2009
I went back over to my old house today to do some more cleaning and work. It was darnstupidfreezingasscold out there. Like a high today of 10F or similar. Whatever it was, it was ridiculously cold out. Like tears freezing on my eyelashes cold. Nonetheless, by the time I hit 12th & Paseo (a little [...]
Posted in Home Improvements, Playing With Weather on Jan 14th, 2009
Holey cow, man, was it ever a windy beast out there today! I grew up in northwestern Nebraska, where they consider 25mph winds a “breeze” so you would think I could handle a little wind. Well, to be honest, since I have been living in Kansas City for so long, I guess I have gotten [...]
Posted in Adventures, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog on Sep 13th, 2008
IMG_3691, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. The dog and I just got back from an epic rain ramble. She’s now napping happily under the dining table, smelly, damp, and exhausted. We found and romped in the King Daddy of all puddles today. There’s essentially a crater about 6 blocks from the house, where a large building [...]
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