6.25.2007
p.s.
Don't use a cable lock for your bike if you have a bike. People can cut through them and take your bike. Which is what happened to mine. And now I have a new new bike. (oi) I hope whoever has my old new bike appreciates it. ;) And word to those who DON'T want people running off with your bike... buy the metal horseshoe-shaped bolt locks that CAN'T be cut through.
6.20.2007
Love
"Rachel says that love is like a big black piano being pushed off the top of a three-story building and you're waiting on the bottom to catch it. But Lourdes says it's not that way at all. It's like a top, like all the colors in the world are spinning so fast they're not colors anymore and all that's left is a white hum.
There was a man, a crazy who lived upstairs from us when we lived on South Loomis. He couldn't talk, just walked around all day with this harmonica in his mouth. Didn't play it. Just sort of breathed through it, all day long, wheezing, in and out, in and out.
This is how it is with me. Love I mean."
- Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek (and other stories)
There was a man, a crazy who lived upstairs from us when we lived on South Loomis. He couldn't talk, just walked around all day with this harmonica in his mouth. Didn't play it. Just sort of breathed through it, all day long, wheezing, in and out, in and out.
This is how it is with me. Love I mean."
- Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek (and other stories)
6.10.2007
Le New Bike
So.
I got a new bike - a new SWEET bike - new sweet DISCOUNTED bike - this weekend. :)
I brought it to Buffalo, a nice drunk old man helped me get it out of my car (I didn't have any choice; he wouldn't go away), and my front brakes got messed up in the process.
I set forth to fix them.
Taking apart each area (above the front tire and in the brake lever), I carefully noted where each piece was supposed to go so that I could put it back exactly as I had taken it apart... That worked IN THEORY but sadly, not in practice. grins I'm sure all of you, at some point in your lives, have felt that needling, intertwining feeling of frustration and stubbornness. The more you try to do something (and fail at it) the more determined you become that you will CONQUER EVIL [insert whatever your mutterings and glarings are focused on]. I felt this. A lot. ;@
Finally, I conceded in doing a bit of online research (thank you google) on how to reassemble your front bike brakes, and in the process learned a ton. Like "brake calipers" and "adjusting barrel" and... my memory is failing me. Anyway, I learned how to fix my brakes!! woohoo! And I tested them a BUNCH - riding around - because the left hand side (that goes to the front brakes) turned out to be in a slightly different position than the right hand side (which I didn't touch).
I feel like my bike and I have now had a true bonding experience. ;) Now I need to come up with a name for it...
Any suggestions??? (It's white.) I'll take a picture and add it to the post later.
I got a new bike - a new SWEET bike - new sweet DISCOUNTED bike - this weekend. :)
I brought it to Buffalo, a nice drunk old man helped me get it out of my car (I didn't have any choice; he wouldn't go away), and my front brakes got messed up in the process.
I set forth to fix them.
Taking apart each area (above the front tire and in the brake lever), I carefully noted where each piece was supposed to go so that I could put it back exactly as I had taken it apart... That worked IN THEORY but sadly, not in practice. grins I'm sure all of you, at some point in your lives, have felt that needling, intertwining feeling of frustration and stubbornness. The more you try to do something (and fail at it) the more determined you become that you will CONQUER EVIL [insert whatever your mutterings and glarings are focused on]. I felt this. A lot. ;@
Finally, I conceded in doing a bit of online research (thank you google) on how to reassemble your front bike brakes, and in the process learned a ton. Like "brake calipers" and "adjusting barrel" and... my memory is failing me. Anyway, I learned how to fix my brakes!! woohoo! And I tested them a BUNCH - riding around - because the left hand side (that goes to the front brakes) turned out to be in a slightly different position than the right hand side (which I didn't touch).
I feel like my bike and I have now had a true bonding experience. ;) Now I need to come up with a name for it...
Any suggestions??? (It's white.) I'll take a picture and add it to the post later.
6.04.2007
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
My sister and brother-in-law are celebrating their 2nd anniversary today. :) crazy, eh?!!
6.03.2007
I'm up in Buffalo now (just moved in this evening)!!
I'm in a townhouse on Lafayette with 3 other girls (upstairs) and then there are more girls downstairs.
It's so wonderful to be living with girls again (in community - something I've rather missed over the past year and a half).
And of course, I'll keep you posted. ;)
grins
I'm in a townhouse on Lafayette with 3 other girls (upstairs) and then there are more girls downstairs.
It's so wonderful to be living with girls again (in community - something I've rather missed over the past year and a half).
And of course, I'll keep you posted. ;)
grins
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