Every now and then I talk Hubbyfink into meeting me along the trail as I ride home from work. On Wednesday he decided he didn't want to deal with the gym and said he'd meet me for the ride home. I warned him that I needed to do a little shopping as well, but those stops would be mostly surgical strikes ( Read more... )

Not much in the way of bikeyness this coming weekend, I'm afraid. Tomorrow, I have to be in Spotsylvania at 8:30am for an SCA event. I'm sure it'll be a fun time once I get there, but dressing-up-in-funny-clothes-and-spending-the-day-on-two-wheels has replaced dressing-up-in-funny-clothes-and-spending-the-day-in-a-field-or-fellowship-hall-with-my- ( Read more... )

My husband wants spiky pedals like mine and I suggested last night that if it wasn't raining this morning, I would ride to work and meet him at the Ashburn Spokes, Etc., and then we could drive home together. We need to put the bike rack on the back of the truck for tomorrow's Bike Me DC ride in Arlington anyway, so it might as well go on when he ( Read more... )

Dude. We mid-Atlantic dwellers are going to pay so much for this mild winter. We're either going to get slammed in a couple of weeks or the bugs next summer will be horrific. Either way, I'm going to take advantage of getting in as many bike rides as possible (and enjoy the lack of stink bugs invading my home to escape winter's chill ( Read more... )

When I first upgraded to my Specialized Ariel, I was hesitant to add anything personal beyond the standard black rack and black trunk bag. Shortly after that, I added white and red blinky lights for safety and legality, a stem-mounted cell phone holder, and a mirror on the left handlebar. I eventually added a few reflective stickers, a front basket ( Read more... )

I enjoy my Highlander but the exterior color hasn't pleased me from day one. I miss having a red vehicle but the pamphlet the dealership gave me showed that Highlanders came in silver, white, grey, black, gold (*retch*), mossy green, and a silvery blue. No red, alas and alack ( Read more... )

So. I've been going nuts for nearly a week trying to figure out what the third piece of music in Miki Ando's Cleopatra-themed free skate program was. (That link takes you to the NBC Olympics page with a video of her program after a short commercial.) I knew the first piece was the theme to "Rome" and I didn't care about the second piece. The third ( Read more... )

We're down to our last kitchen trash bag! I told Hubbyfink he would have to brave the damp streets and raving crowds at CVS to get more bags ( Read more... )

The fun folks at Night of the Living Podcast say that mummies are not zombies. This is because mummies are golems and are animated by magic ( Read more... )

The last day of the semester is this coming Saturday and it can't come soon enough. I'm so thankful that I cut back my hours and am taking only two classes a semester; I'm sure I would've had more breakdowns by now. Hubbyfink's probably thankful too, even if he doesn't know it ( Read more... )