While wandering into work today, I passed by one of the bike stands and noticed a bike with the bike lock UNUSED, in the basket on the back of the bike (see picture below). I realize I never posted in the blog about how several bikes have been STOLEN at my work place (which is…
Happy New Year! 2011 started out sort of boring and bland for me, even with a new job. Then it all hit the fan at the same time. Cancer, work, love life, all hit at once! Alas, I haven’t done any serious cycling since my surgery, so time to change that. Glad to be cancer…
Commuting in the dark, stormy night and staying glaringly, hideously visible.
Wow, October is already upon us! I had an amazing weekend mountain biking and hiking up in Oregon. I’ll have a separate post about that. Talk about an adventure, in many ways! Today I am a .. cancer patient? Tomorrow I’ll be a … cancer… survivor? Whuut? Still strange to think about. Not scared about…
So for the final weekend of having a thyroid gland, I decided to be a big roller and take my sister and I on a biking/hiking/kayaking trip at the McKenzie River Trail. Check it out – Rated #1 for having the best bike trails in America!! We’ll take lots of pics – I’m super excited.…
While perusing the racks at REI for a pair of biking knickers, I rifled through the sale rack of women’s shirts. The below picture is the type of shirts on that rack. Look at this crap! It’s effin’ unholy. Talk about a continuation of the pink theme from my earlier post but this has gone…
So not only is my life extremely interesting, but pretty darn humorous as well.* Here are some putterings from the past two days: –The most dangerous part of my commute is passing the McDonald’s. People swerve across several lines to cut across the bike lane and into the drive through. Then on the other end,…
While walking back from the market, I watched a group of four people bike down the hill towards me. Two men, two children. They were on regular bikes, not crappy beach cruisers. The boys were wearing helmets, the men were not. One of the men noticed me watching, and called out to me. Not sure…
Welcome to the hairpin crochet tutorial page! I made this page in 2004 or 2005 on a different site of mine but moved it over to here for nicer formatting. Figured I should share it! This method of crocheting was popular during the Victorian era. It’s VERY EASY. You should know how to single crochet…