Lousy weather but decent weekend. It rained like crazy yesterday. I drove out to the bike shop to pick up the Univega, and it wasn't ready of course. I suspect it's not so much that bike shop guy forgot, but rather that he wanted to have someone to talk to for awhile besides the cat. So I hung around, skritched the cat's ears, and talked tiki music ( Read more... )

Some posts by casperflea and ww1614 about kids and bicycles a while back got me reminiscing about my first bike, and then about the other bicycles I've owned and ridden. I started writing this not long after, expecting it to be just a short little post with a few lines about each bike, but as I researched the bikes in question, mostly trying to ( Read more... )

Saturday was the wedding of my oldest friend's daughter, and it was very nice. It was at Rutgers, the service in the chapel, and the reception at one of the dining halls. I was kind of surprised that Rutgers had such an elaborate chapel on campus, being a state school and all, but then I remembered how old the school is. Turns out it was founded as ( Read more... )

Snagged from snurri, with a theme as I wait for the Braves-Dodgers game to start.

( Random softball remembrances )

It turned out to be quite a nice weekend. Saturday's heat disappeared overnight, and yesterday was terrific. Not that I did anything much apart from house cleaning. Today was sort of in between. warm and humid, but the sun spent a lot of time behind clouds. I took the bike over to the base and rode all over it, especially along the abandoned roads ( Read more... )

It was bright and sunny this morning, so I decided to grab the camera, and go photograph a few lighthouses. ( Whadda ya mean, the battery's dead? )

Some blasts from the past.

( Reader's Digest Treasury for Young Readers... )

One thing I did over vacation was buy stuff. I won two eBay auctions, and bought a bunch of things at Newegg.com. The biggest purchase was an Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera that is just neat. Alex bought one of these over the summer, and I have been envious ever since I saw it back in June. The price was down to $700 for a package with two lenses ( Read more... )

I justed watched them haul away my old Subaru. After years of procrastinating, I finally called the auto salvage yard to come get it. I damn near cried when they came. I drove that car for eleven and a half years, and loved it almost as much as my old Volkwagen Bus. Near the end, it was rusting away, and the electrical system was going. I only ( Read more... )

From the Providence Journal's website (emphasis mine.):

The state medical examiner’s office announced this morning that a former Cranston man was murdered in 1964 and did not drown himself, as the office initially ruled after the man’s body was found in Narragansett Bay decades ago ( Read more... )