It seems that lately I’ve had this thing I don’t usually have. It feels kinda weird. Not a latest-designer-STD weird, but almost a good kinda weird. They call it motivation. I hate that word.
A few weeks back I started the C25K running program. The short version goes like this: go for a walk/run 3 times […]
Resolutions suck. I never follow through. So this year I’m setting some goals for myself instead. These will all be closer to reasonable than impossible, and are guidelines for living better and doing more of the things I like. I don’t expect to stick with all of this all the time.
Bike stuff first.
2400 miles. That’s […]
Dear food company executive nincompoops,
Prices go up. We, your fat and sassy customers, know this. It never goes down. Not for long, anyway. We know this, too. As citizens of the fattest nation anywhere, anywhen we’ve eaten a lot and we know what tastes good. We’re experts. We also know when you’re yanking our chain.
It […]
Christie’s Nana let us bring home a typewriter that she couldn’t sell at the yard sale. Olympiette 3 portable. Orange and creme. Retro chic. I banged out a page on it this morning after flipping the ribbon, even hit every ‘a’ twice. My left pinky has no strength. Hunt-and-peck typists are no longer a pet […]
Today I rode up 9th and Allen to the top of the hill where it intersects with 7th. But today’s death ride was accompanied by Molly, who is three, and the trailer she rides in. That’s right, folks. I pulled a freakin’ 50 pound trailer up that hill. I muttered something like “Who’s your Daddy” […]
When I quit smoking my greatest fear was not being able to control the addiction around other smokers. Recovering alcoholics, at least for a while, probably avoid places with booze. Like bars. We’re allowed, for now, to smoke in more places than we can drink. And that’s my weakness. Fucking peer pressure. Driving long distances […]
I hate the Holidays. Specifically the Holidays in November, December and January. My little episode with shingles put the kibosh on cycling, so I sat around getting flimsy. Then Thanksgiving rolled around and I ate. A lot. We must have traveled almost every weekend between then and Christmas. And everywhere we went I ate. A […]
It’s been 4 weeks. It still sucks. Yesterday, I went out for groceries, and as I was leaving the supermarket a bunch of employees were coming in from their smoke break. And they smelled really, really bad, which made me want one really, really bad. Go figure. I think about them every day. I have […]
The Pedal Pusher has been my LBS of choice for almost 2 years. I haven’t kept track of the exact figures, but its probably safe to say that I could have bought a new bike or two by now if I hadn’t spent the money on parts and lube and tubes and tires and that […]
So we’re going out of town just after the great unwrapping and decided that a real tree is a bad idea this year. (For the record, I think a real tree is a bad idea every year.) We went to my favorite store, Joann’s Fabrics, and got a plastic tree with the lights already on […]
