I overslept a bit, as I so frequently do, and woke to find it pouring rain. My plan to bike down to yoga at 8:30 and then hang out downtown until an 11:30 meeting (with a design client), and I dithered a bit about going back to bed, but in the end I put on rain clothes and stuffed yoga clothes and street clothes into a panier and went downtown.

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I think everyone should be required to ride the bus once in awhile. It's so easy to get isolated in a car, to forget about the wide variety of people that live in or visit the same place you do ( Read more... )

I'm really bad at fitting regular exercise into my schedule when I'm not biking, which includes things I really ought to be doing to keep my bad knee at optimum functionality. Over the last year I made several attempts at making myself exercise regularly before bed. It worked for a month at most, then I'd have a few late nights -- get home at 11 ( Read more... )

Both of my potential new tenants declined, I think I'm coming down with a cold, and Erik and I are taking a red eye flight to Connecticut tomorrow to spend the week with his parents, which is sure to be extra exciting since we're so close to the election ( Read more... )

And as frequently happens when I'm about to fly somewhere, I'm bit by the urge to go on a long bike ride instead.

So I turned it into an icon.

Someday I need to make a bike-sized bumper-sticker that says "My other car isn't."

Over on ontd_political there was an article today about an empathy disparity between the rich and poor.

In the comments at the source of this article, someone explains that they show empathy by hiring a maid, gardener, and pool boy. The money these people get is money they wouldn't have otherwise, therefore charity! Or something like that ( Read more... )

I just rode home in the pouring rain and showered all the road grime off. I let the kitties in and they mobbed me -- crazy, uber cuddly, we-must-be-in-contact-at-all-times, LOVE ME! I will lick you and cherish you and call you george and you will pet me and LOVE ME! NEEEEEOW! No! We will not wait for you to get dressed! We shall dry you with our ( Read more... )

I am so fucking Pacific Northwest today. I rode my bicycle to work in the pouring rain, stopped for a latte at The Ubiquitous Roadside Coffee Shack, and carried it the rest of the way in my water-bottle holder ( Read more... )

I took the bus in to work on our 104 degree day last week, but the day before that, I rode home as usual down Capitol, and passed a man out watering his garden. I did a quick turn, stood up in my pedals, and grinned at him, and he happily watered me. He got the other side when I came back the other direction ( Read more... )

It's been an eventful day ( Read more... )