Posted by anomalily
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:30:30 GMT
Early birthday presents have made Persephone a dashing lass.
Those amazing fenders are a sweet birthday present from Theo, I believe originating at Velo Orange/
The handlebar bag/shoulder bag (which folder over, seen in the open position here) is from Boneshaker Bags on Etsy. My mom somehow manages to hunt down the coolest handmade gifts. I'm really excited about putting my camera in this bag for Seattle to Portland.
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Posted by anomalily
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:25:54 GMT
We made it.
Through wearing shorts with an inseam of 6cms or less.
Through insanely long, hectic ID check lines.
Through 3 costume changes.
Through 52 volunteers.
Through 12 kegs of beer.
Through 200+ rides.
Through 13 hours of walking in moonboots.
Through 17 days.
Through the most spectacular, blissful, and tiring holiday in the world.
Pedalpalooza, I love you.
But I'm ready for some time apart.
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Posted by anomalily
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:25:06 GMT
About four minutes after it happened, I found out about Michael Jackson's death via twitter. A ride in celebration of his life and music was planned with lightning speed through the internet and the rest of my evening was spent dancing & listening to Jackson. First: Nickey's "tea dance" bike ride. Then, a highly-publicized (for only a 2 hour lead time) bike dance party for MJ. Including a beautiful bike eulogy from Deacon Amos of the Bike Temple. After a few miles of dancing, had to leave to lead the Parks to Parks ride. Upon arriving, I proposed two options to the group: 1) go on my pre-planned route of little unknown parks or 2) take a shortened route and join up the MJ memorial ride/dance party. We selected a hybrid option that involved dancing to a trailer full of MJ tunes and going on the originally scheduled ride.
The ride lasted 6.5 hours and we hit 8 parks. The ride was pretty huge at peak (>40) and was never smaller than 12 (even when I left for bed at 2:30AM). We had mass tree-climbing, dancing, fountain-playing, donuts, a "sculpture tour" in holladay park, a silent group cuddle-puddle star-gazing. All in all, my favorite ride I led. Once again, we ended at the bluffs, overlooking industrial N Portland.
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Posted by anomalily
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:32:17 GMT
...Life is good in the pedalpalooza world.
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Posted by anomalily
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:21:43 GMT
It's day 200. I can't believe I've gotten this far.
I went on a fabulous ride called Dekum to Woodstock where Shawn and Carl rode a tandem and shouted out a one-sentence explanation of the origin of every streeetname as we passed it. It was simultaneous the fastest and funnest ride I'd been on yet. Theo and I stopped at Dot's and I had their amazing spicy fries for the first time.
(They don't taste very good the next morning, however).
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Posted by anomalily
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:19:12 GMT
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Posted by anomalily
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:18:21 GMT
..pedalpalooza started today and my parents got to ride in the largest group ride they've ever done in the Kickoff Parade, followed by dinner at Paradox. Ed awesomely hauled my mother (who has a broken wrist) around in a Bakfiets all night. It was awesome.
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Posted by anomalily
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:41:21 GMT
Ride Bike. Drink Beer. Ride Bike. Dress in Costume. Ride Bike. Nap. Repeat.
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Posted by anomalily
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:34:30 GMT
Plan your rides appropriately.
Bike traffic on the Eastbank Esplanade between the Hawthorne Bridge and SE Caruthers Street will be temporarily detoured to SE Water Avenue Monday, June 15, through Thursday, June 18, 2009.
In preparation for the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project’s new bridge over the Willamette River, crews will be collecting geotechnical samples along the riverbank using heavy equipment.
Cyclists can dismount and walk through the work zone, but we recommend following the detour route instead to avoid delays.
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Posted by anomalily
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:41:49 GMT
It was as though Theo was a ghost in my bed when I woke up: I didn't remember him climbing out of it at all and barely could remember if I simply dreamt that he had crawled in last night.
A morning at P:EAR was followed by a vastly unproductive day at work spent mostly fixing problems with my computer. Once that was finally done, it was time to go staff the IPRC. Shawn also thought he was staffing the IPRC, so I finished up my project and left him to round out the shift. I was exhausted, trailing home at 5 mph, but somehow by the time I got home I had renewed energy. I started drinking coffee out of one hand and beer out of the other and finally wrapped up working on the WNBR at 5AM. Then, I crawled into bed for 2.5 hours of sleep before my conference call.
This photo was taken for the Rogue Players: Calvin and Hobbes in Real Life.
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