Having been cut loose from work early this afternoon on this the last day of 2007, I tacked on a a downtown detour to the ride home that ended up totaling 31 miles on December 31st to finish at 3,100 for the year. Three thousand one hundred and two point five miles to be exact. …
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…On the way to the office today. Actually two — actually three, with the third one teaching me a valuable lesson. 1) In what may very well be a quintessential L.A. rite of passage (or at least a case of what-are-the-odds timing), I intersected with the downward trajectory of a falling palm frond (loosed from …
Sorry for the craptastic phonecam snap, but it’s all I have to work with in digitizing the check I received this morning in the amount of $61.32 for my October and November alternate-commute efforts as part of my building’s employee transportation incentive program. Doing something I enjoy and getting paid for it!? What a concept!
Santa brought my bay-bee a brand new shaft-driven velocipede so we took it out on the L.A. River Bikeway Christmas day for an inaugural spin before heading downtown for a matinee of “I Am Legend,” which was disappointing, but we made up for it by riding the Bonaventure Hotel’s elevator to the top floor afterwards …
Gotta go over to mom’s in Burbank today to help her with something so I’ve pre-charted a 20-mile course that’s gonna get me upriver over there and then to IKEA to stock up on $2 battery-operated LED light strings for next Christmas, then down to the Supply Sergeant on Victory near Magnolia because I rarely …
I think my brainstem mighta gotten a touch o’ the frostbite during the combined 40 miles of cycling that I did last night between 7:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., because I’m up this morning with a killer base-of-the-skull headache perhaps from improperly thawing my cranium out afterwards. In other words, it was COLD last night. …
Here’s a realtime shakycam vidclip I shot entrance-to-exit through the 2nd Street Tunnel as cyclists who had set out from Hollywood made their way to Olvera Street as part of last night’s 2nd Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride: Flickr photoset of the night here.