I suspect that the rest of this weekend and Monday won't be nearly as cool, but... today was kind of awesome, in a "This is what post-apocalypse Chicago would be like" kind of way ( Read more... )

I wish I had enough time to finish writing up some Meta things tonight because agh, authorial intent! It is haunting me. Thankfully I got through Reichenbach without any meta-level issues, but I still have some lingering from ASiB, and somehow Andrew Hussie is massively stepping into it in regards to race on Tumblr tonight and this makes an ( Read more... )

Guys, you're officially allowed to completely disregard any opinions I have on music from now on, because I actually stood in line to see Patrick Stump last night, surrounded by tweens and teens who squeed in unison in response to Twitter posts and things, leaving me scratching my head for a while and feeling incredibly old. The messes look_alive gets me ( Read more... )

I need to get back into the habit of writing more frequently. It's kind of awkward to mix an intro post (which I still haven't managed to do) with real life japery with fannish squee. Plus I'm sleepy and my brain is vacant enough that I nearly set frozen vegetables on fire this afternoon, so we'll take it easy. (And by we I basically mean me.)

( In which I bike 51 miles in a day )

Just so everything isn't all "Why job why oh why!" (which I will do my best not to return us to tomorrow)...

I ended up spending the morning/afternoon today with look_alive (I'm really not sure how she's not tired of me yet) and her newly-arrived-in-Chicago cats (so cute! Especially little Patrick, who follows her around everywhere and is so codependent ( Read more... )

( Ah, when dorky plans come to fruition. (Eating Bugs, Seeing a Monster, and Coffee With the Internet are all delightful things.) )

Lots of things today, guys, lots of things! I got up this morning and made a run to the hardware store so I could finally clean my bike chain properly. I've had the current bike (the one I cannot name, for fear I'll destroy it (though it does have a special secret name)) for almost a year now and I've only ever done a little bit of spit and ( Read more... )

First of all, I'm thinking of going into meteorology. There's just no way I could possibly do worse than saying at 7:30 in the morning that the rain wasn't going to start until 9 when it was pouring by 8:05. That's failing to predict the weather thirty five minutes in the future. The forecast I looked at this morning also claimed that it was ( Read more... )

I am absolutely digging this 60-degree weather we're having. Last week (and even this weekend) I thought I was going to have to give up my bike for the winter, and now I've had two absolutely lovely nights of biking home without even needing a jacket. And it's a good thing, too, because otherwise I would be pulling out my hair ( Read more... )

I've had a rash of flat tires lately. It's been a massive pain in the butt, and yesterday's flat on the way in to work somehow foiled every attempt I made to patch it, so I had to take it in to the bike shop after work. I'm pretty sure every mechanic there knows me now, as I've been in for various things about once every two weeks. The problem ( Read more... )