"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, dumb things I have done on Aug 25th, 2010
So, what I’m really looking for is a battery powered picture frame that will make the sound of a toilet flushing when you push a button or pull a lever. Ideally, it would accommodate an A4 sized sheet of paper. Can you believe this thing is for real? Or that I, in actual fact, “earned” [...]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me!, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Aug 24th, 2010
I was in a colossally bad mood yesterday after having to work on my day off, plus learning that I didn’t get the promotion I’d applied for (one which would have gotten me off the phone lines and allowed me to wear ear-protectors at work and not have to listen to my co-workers gabbling at [...]
Posted in You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on Aug 23rd, 2010
I’ve been vaguely under the weather this past week. Snotly, wimpy, and excessively sweaty. Not sure if it was just some sort of crazy hay-fever or a very feeble summer cold, but I’m over the worst of the foulness. At least I don’t feel totally wimpy anymore, though I am still in possession of a [...]
Posted in Distractions, You have got to be kidding me! on Aug 23rd, 2010
Oh lord, did my alarm clock just wake me up from one HELL of a scorched-earth hissyfit. I was dreaming that I had some sort of big final paper to turn in, the fate of my BA hung in the balance, and a string of catastrophes was preventing me printing it out and handing it [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Gratuitous Cussing, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, videos on Jul 4th, 2010
On my way home from work today, I rode past some very busy fireworks stands in the West Bottoms. If you know Kansas City, you might know about James Street and the half dozen or so semi-abandond buildings that become explosives emporia in the week leading up to Independence day. Being as today is The [...]
Posted in Other Bike Stuff, You have got to be kidding me!, biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta on May 31st, 2010
This is written partly in response to Jacquie Phelan’s recent musings about where women fit into the cycling industry, and partly because I sometimes kick ideas around about my own “place” in the two-wheeled underground. I think part of the problem(s) that both Jacquie and Bike Hugger were addressing (1) (2) (3) stem from how [...]
Posted in Ruby the Dog, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Apr 16th, 2010
Man, oh man, yesterday I had two flats at once and it was a pain in the ass. I picked up some goat-head thorns during one of Ruby’s and my excursions into the West Bottoms. The dog likes to run, and I don’t, so what we do to compromise is I leash her up and [...]
Posted in Fashion, You have got to be kidding me!, dumb things I have done on Feb 25th, 2010
I guess if you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror in the work restroom and think, “who the fuck is that douchebag?” you’ve probably pretty much failed your fashion check for the day. I realized about midway through the day today that I dressed like a complete asshole and felt sheepish for the [...]
Posted in You have got to be kidding me!, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, videos on Feb 6th, 2010
But the opening animation was AWESOME: We’ve had about a 50/50 rate of hits and misses with Netflix. The movies that we’ve gotten and enjoyed were really great and the ones that sucked were almost unbelievably awful. The nice thing about Netflix is that it’s so inexpensive that if you get a dud, you can [...]
Posted in You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jan 16th, 2010
I tell you there’s nothing like a group of cyclists to whip up a tempest in a teapot. The most recent fuss and bother that finally penetrated my protective carapace of “not-giving-a-fuck” is a Facebook kerfuffle centered around a group of disgruntled motorists who just can’t stand sharing the road with cyclists and have therefore [...]
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