>.< I have officially reached the end of my patience with being stung while bicycling. Today's event was a sudden, burning stab that hurt so much it made me yell! And then move off the bike path and start lifting away my jersey to make sure the little f*@ker wasn't still in there, waiting to get me again ( Read more... )

I was having a lovely bike ride yesterday-light winds, nice temperature, not too crowded-when *STAB*

Wait, was that a- OWWW! Damn it, that hurts! Ow, my HAND!My first instinct was to tough out the sting and keep going, but my bike glove had a suspicious bump in it, so I decided I'd better make sure a yellow jacket or wasp wasn't under there, ( 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... )

So, with the much-needed rain over the weekend, we unfortunately got some unwelcome windstorms. I always hope there won't be too much damage around the city (especially to people and houses), but while I had trees on the brain... I forgot about fences. The short part of the backyard fence that abuts a neighbor went down Saturday night. It's the ( Read more... )

My behindness is now behind. I swore the late Thanksgiving wouldn't come back to bite me, but I was wrong. Delaying the outside Xmas lights a week, and then again (because it was in the low 40s last weekend) had a ripple effect. I now have most of the lights up, but no tree, no inside decorations, no cards, and none of the wrapping or baking done ( Read more... )