to be looking for something like a mesh, gnat-resistant face-mask for bicycling, and discovering that some people are making and/or regularly wearing them as a means of "getting around" COVID mask mandates. Ughhh. We will never be free of this virus or the behavioral restrictions around it until people stop spreading it, and it really seems as if ( Read more... )

I finally saw a baby bunny while I was out cycling last weekend! It had been a while. \o ( Read more... )

It's the last day to vote in this week's LJ Idol poll! The numbers are really close, and it looks like we clearly need more readers to decide the outcome rather than friends/family from Facebook and the like. The poll is here. Please read and vote for your favorites!

So, there was the windy bike ride on Tuesday, then a rest-day yesterday (while ( Read more... )

Voting ends tonight for this 2-day story window on LJ Idol. The list of stories and voting instructions is here. Only 13, so please read and vote for your favorites!

We had a beautiful spring weekend, with temperatures near 70o here. That's common for March, but we went back into winter in earnest for January and February, and we keep having rain ( Read more... )

First off, today is the last day to vote for this week's LJ Idol. My story is here, with a link to the poll at the bottom. Please read and vote for your favorites!

So, the score on yesterday's TODO list was,
Yes: Biking outside, fixing track stand flat, putting away Christmas ornaments, starting sewing work
No: Finishing sewing work, finishing ( Read more... )

Gah. So, despite knowing what I wanted to write about for Idol, it just would not come. I wound up spending the entire day on Saturday finishing my story with about 5 minutes to spare in posting it just before 5pm. /o ( Read more... )

I'm nearing the end of Buffy The Vampire Slayer: S7 in my garage-biking re-watch. This is my least favorite season of the show, the one in which Joss Whedon breaks all his toys and goes home. There's so much that just makes me "Argh!", including Nathan Fillion as an evil woman-hater who fills me with stabbity rage! /o\

I recently watched ( Read more... )

File this under "unbelievable," except it actually happened...

HalfshellHusband was hit by a horse while bicycling on Saturday ( Read more... )

I know we've all had them... Those dreams where you get stuck on, "Hey, I need to go to the bathroom. Huh. Still feels like I need to go to the bathroom. And again. Really? And again."As soon as you wake up enough, you discover that of course you DO need to go to the bathroom, which is why you kept being pestered in the dream ( Read more... )

So, it's my second weekend of working an additional day, thanks to management planning screw-ups at the office. I was at it late last night (after a day of uncooperative equipment and wasted time), then we did housecleaning because my son wanted to host a "deco" (decorating) party for a school event. We did one last November, in which teenagers ( Read more... )