Sorry folks, forgot to have a camera handy. Pics of my less then happy garden comin soon tho (my basil is dyin - HALP!).
Friday night was going to be a low-key evenin of yoga n a movie as tha plans ah thought had been made were in fact nawt, but ah was saved by a text message around 4 pm that read "Let's Rage Tonight." In this context, "raging" means "biking around the city, breaking for alcohol from time to time" and this sounded like a much bettah idea ta me. We kicked thangs off w. some noize jammin down tha street, then made fer food n a bottle. Out to tha Embarcadero, we sat w. our friends Jameson and Tecate n discussed my friends upcoming bike-polo/tour of tha West Coast this summer. (Side note, ah now have a place fer a drumset if ah ken find one....)
Aftahwerds, we biked thru tha crazy sites n sounds of a Friday nite in tha city - past tha strip clubs of North Beach, tha trannys of tha Tender Knob, tha strip clubs of Market. Briefly we saw some people who cared very very much about Karaoke at the Mint, and then we were pulled back to tha Mission by way of Zeitgeist (tha quintessential cycle/dive bar w. a monstrous beer garden - it sucks you in). Aftah a few rounds we witnessed a policeman get a bribe as a local pizza shop sold somethang besides then pizza to its otha patrons. Ah was too broke to buy tha promised final drink at tha local irish pub, so we ended up havin a last tall boy at my place before crashin.
Saturday ah woke up early n had a list of thangs to accomplish, which included, but was nawt limited to: practicing bass, making pasta sauce, werkin in tha backyard, n gittin ta yoga. In tha backyard ah tried ta save a newly-bloomin plant that had been left ovah n recently restored ta life, then made some damn good pasta sauce (w. portobella mushies, green bell peppers, n carrots), n aftahwerds gawt my stretch on. That evenin it was my roommies bday celebration so thar was a potluck w. gobs of food n drink (some resourceful individuals brought tha remnants of a pony keg from tha nite before). A handle of knob creek was drank, food was consumed, a mess was made, tha kitchen gawt smoky, n aftah dark thar was a candlelight expedition to tha clubhouse fer tha tellin of ghost stories. Tha mess continues ta exist, as this wasn't my party. Everythang on my list gawt accomplished, except fer tha movin of new musick ta my phone, which was taken care of yestahday.
Sunday had me at yoga again in tha mornin, n ah received some words of praise both on my work-trade follow-through as well as my practice which put me in a good mood. Then WTB had some practicin fer a show this Friday. Finally that evenin ah settled down ta watch "The Golden Compass" - don't judge me. It was kind of weak actually, but thar was a polar bear fight which made it sort of worth sittin through. Ahd be surprised if a sequel evah manifested - it wasn't very well made.
10 days until ah head ta LA fer tha Odors reunion.....
Showing posts with label biking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biking. Show all posts
Monday, June 01, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Reflections on my Bike Ride to Work #1
Passing under the highway from the Mission into the SOMA is always such an uplifting feeling. While the Mission is generally sunnier and more climate then most areas in the city in the morning, some days it takes a while for the fog to clear. However, the SOMA, being slightly further East is always a few degrees warmer and a touch sunnier pretty much every morning. It's almost exactly halfway between my house and my office, and it feels a little like a reward for biking to work. Often I'll remove my gloves at this point and unzip my jacket now that ahve worked up a lil internal heat.
Also - this is my 200th blogpost. Holy shit, 200 posts. That is includin tha 11 from 2006, but that means 189 of them are since ah moved ta CA. Craziness. Thanks fer readin thru all tha slang folks!
Also - this is my 200th blogpost. Holy shit, 200 posts. That is includin tha 11 from 2006, but that means 189 of them are since ah moved ta CA. Craziness. Thanks fer readin thru all tha slang folks!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Ah biked to tha ocean
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone! Also, tha last day of President whas-his-face in office. Tomorrow everythang changes - fer a hawt minute at least.
Anyway, ah was fortunate enuff ta have a paid holiday today, which werked out very well as tha weather was quite awesome. High 50s/low 60s and sunny - perfect for a bike ride! So ah decided ta enjoy it just that way. Ah realized that ah have actually nawt seen tha Pacific Coast of SF since movin to tha area (ah visited briefly back when ah was checkin out tha city in Oct 08). Checkin google maps ah see thas about a 7 mile direct bike ride. Howevah ah took tha scenic route thru Golden Gate Park, b/c, well it's Golden Gate Park!
Ah intentionally took as indirect a route as ah could find, n don't know how long it took. Along tha way ah saw some familiar places ahve visited before, n lawts of back trails ah haven't. This was integral in learnin exactly HOW lil traction my current street tires have on thangs like gravel, mulch, and dirt. Important thangs ta learn. Ah also learned thar are Bison in GGP:
Golden Gate Park American Bison
Eventually ah did make it to tha beach - awesome!
Ocean Beach
A bunch of people were assembled ta form a giant "YES" in tha beach in response to bush leavin tha office. Same people that brought you this:
It was another hour n a half away from tha shoot time so ah didn't hang around. Ah slowly made my way back to thru golden gate park. Briefly ah met a hippy named George who had two tiny barky dogs w. him n a bay dog that he told me was a hampster, haha. I borrowed some fire from him, chatted a bit, and he told me to "enjoy the trees". I assured him I would (And I did).
When ah made it home ah took a stab at some bbq tofu....lemme tweak my process before ah gae intae more detail. This was tha first attempt....nawt bad, but nawt great. Ah know ah ken dae bettah at least.
tomorrow ahm wakin up early ta gae ta werk n watch tha inauguration on tha screens thar. Fingahs crossed fer mimosas, but ah kinda doubt that'll come through.
Oh, n my beard is full - as full as ah think ah should let it git. Here's me at tha ocean today - keep in mind, ah trimmed this w. scissors today so it was even biggah yestahday!
Anyway, ah was fortunate enuff ta have a paid holiday today, which werked out very well as tha weather was quite awesome. High 50s/low 60s and sunny - perfect for a bike ride! So ah decided ta enjoy it just that way. Ah realized that ah have actually nawt seen tha Pacific Coast of SF since movin to tha area (ah visited briefly back when ah was checkin out tha city in Oct 08). Checkin google maps ah see thas about a 7 mile direct bike ride. Howevah ah took tha scenic route thru Golden Gate Park, b/c, well it's Golden Gate Park!
Ah intentionally took as indirect a route as ah could find, n don't know how long it took. Along tha way ah saw some familiar places ahve visited before, n lawts of back trails ah haven't. This was integral in learnin exactly HOW lil traction my current street tires have on thangs like gravel, mulch, and dirt. Important thangs ta learn. Ah also learned thar are Bison in GGP:
Golden Gate Park American Bison
Eventually ah did make it to tha beach - awesome!
Ocean Beach
A bunch of people were assembled ta form a giant "YES" in tha beach in response to bush leavin tha office. Same people that brought you this:
It was another hour n a half away from tha shoot time so ah didn't hang around. Ah slowly made my way back to thru golden gate park. Briefly ah met a hippy named George who had two tiny barky dogs w. him n a bay dog that he told me was a hampster, haha. I borrowed some fire from him, chatted a bit, and he told me to "enjoy the trees". I assured him I would (And I did).
When ah made it home ah took a stab at some bbq tofu....lemme tweak my process before ah gae intae more detail. This was tha first attempt....nawt bad, but nawt great. Ah know ah ken dae bettah at least.
tomorrow ahm wakin up early ta gae ta werk n watch tha inauguration on tha screens thar. Fingahs crossed fer mimosas, but ah kinda doubt that'll come through.
Oh, n my beard is full - as full as ah think ah should let it git. Here's me at tha ocean today - keep in mind, ah trimmed this w. scissors today so it was even biggah yestahday!
Thursday, May 08, 2008
WTF???
Ah was runnin a few minutes late today - n tha way ah dae thangs is a few minutes ken make all tha difference. Ah have a pretty tight routine down in tha mornin that doesn't allow fer much more then 7 minutes between leavin my house n bein upstairs at tha BART stop fer my train. If ah miss that one, anutha train comes in 8 minutes - but requires a transfer. Tha next direct train isn't fer 15 minutes, which is pretty anticlimactic aftah a fast n furious bike ride.
Generally ah pay relatively good attention to traffic signs, etc. But when ahm late, n approachin a cross street w. nawt a car in sight, ahll usually gae right past it. Today, this led to me gittin stopped by a cop, who wrote me a ticket fer failin ta yield to a stop sign. Ah was hopin by playin tha complacent offendee, ah mite git off w. a warnin (hey, it werked when ah bought underage youth alcohol!), but nae such luck.
Aftahwerds, ah wish ahd been at least a touch more rebellious - nawt ta fight tha ticket, but when he mentioned that if a car had broken tha law ah just ignored, it would be big trouble ah wish ahd pointed out that ahm nawt a two ton vehicle in motion powered by dinosaur debris - ahma dude on a bike n combined we don't total 175 pounds (ahm skinny, ah know). Also, ah really should've mentioned that while ah wasn't arguin that ahd broken tha law, as someone who gawt mugged by uncaught (n apparently somewhat notoroius) thugs just three blocks away, ah didn't support spendin so much person-power on finin cyclists who breezed through a stop sign. Especially when he told me thar were cops all along tha path today. Ah hate bein caught off guard!
Tha biggest kickah is ah totally read an article in tha SF Weekly just tha aftahnoon before that mentioned how cops were crackin down on cyclists - n nawt those who drive automobiles b/c "studies" have started indicatin that cylcists are more likely ta disobey tha traffic rules then cars are. Tha slant was that more education/awareness could potentially fix tha amount of accidents n help folx share tha road bettah (as an initiative in Marin is startin ta prove), but ah really should've taken somethang more then that away from it. Considerin tha amount of stop signs ah have nae problem runnin so long as thars nae one drivin on tha road, ah ken almost assume tha cops read tha same fricken article ah did ta git tha idea.
When asked how much it mite run me (why dae ah dae this? Cops nevah know - er if they don't they don't say what tha consequences are EVAH), ah was told that tha verdict was usually about half what a car violation was. While ah git this in concept, if we want ta gae by weight/impact/etc., a 1 to 10 ratio is a lawt more accurate. Thus far findin what this translates to in American dollars has proved fruitless.
Worst part - this could (probably will) give me points on my license, which ah really hope doesn't increase my non-car-ownin insurance. How stupid is all this?
Generally ah pay relatively good attention to traffic signs, etc. But when ahm late, n approachin a cross street w. nawt a car in sight, ahll usually gae right past it. Today, this led to me gittin stopped by a cop, who wrote me a ticket fer failin ta yield to a stop sign. Ah was hopin by playin tha complacent offendee, ah mite git off w. a warnin (hey, it werked when ah bought underage youth alcohol!), but nae such luck.
Aftahwerds, ah wish ahd been at least a touch more rebellious - nawt ta fight tha ticket, but when he mentioned that if a car had broken tha law ah just ignored, it would be big trouble ah wish ahd pointed out that ahm nawt a two ton vehicle in motion powered by dinosaur debris - ahma dude on a bike n combined we don't total 175 pounds (ahm skinny, ah know). Also, ah really should've mentioned that while ah wasn't arguin that ahd broken tha law, as someone who gawt mugged by uncaught (n apparently somewhat notoroius) thugs just three blocks away, ah didn't support spendin so much person-power on finin cyclists who breezed through a stop sign. Especially when he told me thar were cops all along tha path today. Ah hate bein caught off guard!
Tha biggest kickah is ah totally read an article in tha SF Weekly just tha aftahnoon before that mentioned how cops were crackin down on cyclists - n nawt those who drive automobiles b/c "studies" have started indicatin that cylcists are more likely ta disobey tha traffic rules then cars are. Tha slant was that more education/awareness could potentially fix tha amount of accidents n help folx share tha road bettah (as an initiative in Marin is startin ta prove), but ah really should've taken somethang more then that away from it. Considerin tha amount of stop signs ah have nae problem runnin so long as thars nae one drivin on tha road, ah ken almost assume tha cops read tha same fricken article ah did ta git tha idea.
When asked how much it mite run me (why dae ah dae this? Cops nevah know - er if they don't they don't say what tha consequences are EVAH), ah was told that tha verdict was usually about half what a car violation was. While ah git this in concept, if we want ta gae by weight/impact/etc., a 1 to 10 ratio is a lawt more accurate. Thus far findin what this translates to in American dollars has proved fruitless.
Worst part - this could (probably will) give me points on my license, which ah really hope doesn't increase my non-car-ownin insurance. How stupid is all this?
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sunday is MY DAY!
MY DAY ta bike all ovah tah fricken place. Mostly via tha ohlone greenway er tha Bicycle Boulevard. Apparently it was also Easter, which ah always think is in mid-April.
HAPPY ZOMBIE JEEBUS DAY!
In case anyone is wonderin, ahm diggin my new job. It's a bit slow at tha moment, but ahm part of a 4 person department (thars actually two otha folx in tha department, but they don't werk in SF) n ah like that we're a small department on a big floor. Essentially my job is ta learn this online database well enuff so that ah ken eventually train n support volunteer leaders across tha country w. usin it, so ah think it will be a good fit.
think13 has a big gig this Saturday whar we will be debutin as a full-on RAWK BAND, w. electric guitars n kit drum. It's part of a fundraiser, we'll be playin w. some great bands. Watch out SF, thar will be rawk.
Also, ahm very excited b.c this week ahll git ta meet up w. an old Mysterious Odors band mate. Ah haven't seen any of these guys since our last gig, which was pandemonium. mmm, pandemonium.
HAPPY ZOMBIE JEEBUS DAY!
In case anyone is wonderin, ahm diggin my new job. It's a bit slow at tha moment, but ahm part of a 4 person department (thars actually two otha folx in tha department, but they don't werk in SF) n ah like that we're a small department on a big floor. Essentially my job is ta learn this online database well enuff so that ah ken eventually train n support volunteer leaders across tha country w. usin it, so ah think it will be a good fit.
think13 has a big gig this Saturday whar we will be debutin as a full-on RAWK BAND, w. electric guitars n kit drum. It's part of a fundraiser, we'll be playin w. some great bands. Watch out SF, thar will be rawk.
Also, ahm very excited b.c this week ahll git ta meet up w. an old Mysterious Odors band mate. Ah haven't seen any of these guys since our last gig, which was pandemonium. mmm, pandemonium.
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