Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Of Thunks & Hookers
Weird day riding in today — and by riding I mean: Participating In An Ongoing Civic Study Of The City’s Capacity For Assholes. Not only did I have to deal with the bike’s drivetrain emitting phantom thunks whose source I couldn’t discern, but in addition I got right-hooked thrice by passing sedans. I haven’t been [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, idiots by Will
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Neck ‘N Neck
For those of you who might be keeping an occasional eye on that little bike mileage tally box to the right, you’ll notice I’ve surpassed the 5,000-mile mark in my annual bike ridings, both commuter and recreational.
I should be all happy about that, but somewhat frustratingly I’ve actually biked less mileage than I’d accumulated on [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking, milestones by Will
Monday, September 28th, 2009
GORFEERT:TREEFROG
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3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals by Will
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Cats & Dogs & Dogs & Frogs
Earlier this week my friend Sean Bonner tweeted the need to find a new home for a trio of tree frogs for whom he and his wife Tara had been caring. Turns out the tiny things can be disproportionately noisy for their size, and Sean was having a hard time focusing on the management of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals by Will
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Talkin’ ‘Bout Regeneration
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A couple weeks ago Susan came home to find a tell-tale lizard tail on the kitchen floor, but unlike the last time when Jiggy brought a tail and its lizard inside, the rest of the reptile was nowhere in sight so we figured (hoped) that [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Circa 1915
The floor-level outlet that has provided the power to our entertainment unit has long needed upgrading. It’s old two-pronger (as evidenced by the interesting decorative detail around the plugs, as shown above) that has been an overloaded trooper in steadily supplying the needed juice through an eight-outlet powerstrip to all our audio/visual stuff. But it [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in DIY, gadgets, history, home economics by Will
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Melrose & Western, 11:07 Monday Night
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I may be wired different. A troubled morning commute to work that features three flats (Nos. 23, 24, 25 for the year, if you’re counting, which I am) and an angry left hamstring leaves me arriving an hour and a half late to a busy Monday at work. Then I put [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Cleaning Up A Mess
In the most desperate days of my long stretch of unemployment — I mean freelancing — I drove all the way down to Dominguez Hills in the summer of 2007 and applied to be a dependent contractor for DirecTV, installing their satellite TV systems.
In fact, perhaps the only reason I didn’t take the $10-per-hour shit [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in DIY, gadgets, home economics by Will
Friday, September 18th, 2009
I Am A Boy Scout
Ride a bike enough and the out-of-the-ordinary noises they make become readily recognizable, such as the sharp sound that emanated from the front wheel after I’d angled off of La Brea onto Redondo yesterday morning on my way to work. To the ear of the unfamiliar rider it might have sounded and felt like you’d [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in DIY, biking by Will
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Can You See Me Now?
Don’t lecture me because I understand that I am to blame. Instead of asserting my right to the lane I’m biking in, I have a tendency to ride too far to the right — only a couple-three feet out from the curb, or well within the doorzone. I’ve tried to change that habit, but that’s [...]
