Jul 31, 2015
Dust Mite samples my birthday pie
—orc Fri Jul 31 23:34:52 2015
Jul 29, 2015
When it’s in the mid-to-high 90s(°F; it was 32.2C when I went out this afternoon, and the temperature was climbing then entire time I was riding around) it’s much more pleasant to do my shopping in the middle of the night.
—orc Wed Jul 29 23:17:34 2015
Jul 27, 2015
Multnomah Falls doesn’t usually fall off the cliff on a diagonal.
—orc Mon Jul 27 20:29:55 2015
Jul 24, 2015
Dust Mite checks the wheel clearance under a porteur rack
—orc Fri Jul 24 23:05:43 2015
Jul 21, 2015
It takes me about 3 months to go through a kilogram of marmite, and I’d gone through the last kilogram about a month ago. But fortunately the slow boat from the UK isn’t that slow, so the drought is over (for now.)
—orc Tue Jul 21 22:53:24 2015
Jul 20, 2015
Heading down towards Powell Ave after climbing Holgate Lane, then detouring up to the summit to get around the Water Bureau’s construction zone for the new underground replacements for the Washington Park and Mount Tabor reservoirs.
—orc Mon Jul 20 19:53:42 2015
Jul 17, 2015
There’s a Dust Mite in our dinner!
—orc Fri Jul 17 20:37:17 2015
My boyfriend and I have been getting into little arguments which then later escalated. A lot of which are my fault but I never thought I would lose him because we are in love. He told me yesterday that he loves me but is done. That the fights keep hurting him too much.
I can’t believe I hurt him like that and would love nothing more than another chance to prove to him and myself that I will cut out my insecurities that I’ve brought into this relationship. I did all i could to end this fight between us us, didn’t work so i had to seek the help of a spell caster who i met online and promised to help me bring him back into my life in 5 days time. i wasnt really sure about this, but i was really desperate that i had to do all that that the spell caster asked me. it was on the fiftieth day …
Nothing like losing track of a sales pitch on the second paragraph. It’s that sort of craftsmanship that makes me want to run out and spend all of my money on mystical flim-flammery.
—orc Fri Jul 17 13:27:49 2015
Jul 14, 2015
Brevetting in the GT by riding it out to Multnomah Falls. The plastic saddle I put on it? Totally not suited for long-distance riding. Running the tires at 35psi? Totally not suited for comfortable fast riding. Gonna have to fix those before I take this machine out for another permanent.
—orc Tue Jul 14 23:10:00 2015
Jul 13, 2015
Jul 12, 2015
I got an order for a 12x12 rack on friday, so that’s what I spent my weekend working on (well, that and sleeping, cleaning, and being a sea-slug.)
—orc Sun Jul 12 17:05:48 2015
Jul 10, 2015
Dust Mite helps me build a rack.
—orc Fri Jul 10 20:57:40 2015
Jul 06, 2015
My sweet fixie goes down 17th Ave almost as fast as a Tri-Met test train does – since I don’t have to stop at any of the stations to pick up passengers I can catch up to the train when it’s stopped, then ghost through the crossings immediately past the station while the crossing gates are down.
But if I was in the train I’d be enjoying the air conditioning instead of melting in the heat :-(
—orc Mon Jul 6 19:25:12 2015
I think the most expensive components on these machines are the saddles (and the only saddle I bought was the el-cheapo plastic skeleton saddle on the GT – the two Berthoud saddles had been bouncing around from bike to bike before I decided to spare my butt and put them onto machines that see regular 100k loops) and my total cost of out pocket for them is, um, around $200 (I creeped ebay for the cheap carpet fiber crankset, handlebars, and seatpost on the born-again Trek, plus I bought some paint & primer for the GT and some paint stripper + steel wool for the mountainhack)?
I don’t know if I’ll keep all of these (unless I store one away as a loaner bike for when bikey relatives come to visit?) but I don’t think my pocketbook would cry bitter tears if one of them was stolen or wrecked.
—orc Mon Jul 6 15:11:51 2015
Jul 03, 2015
Two small therapods in a Portland backyard
—orc Fri Jul 3 21:37:45 2015
Dust Mite is getting sick of this heatwave.
—orc Fri Jul 3 21:27:51 2015
Jul 02, 2015
I wanted to see how the mountainhack would ride with a longer stem, and the only longer stem (in 1"/26mm sizeway) I had was yet another Mutant. Mutants aren’t flippable (well, they are theoretically flippable, but they look much too phallic that way) so the cost of another 4cm extension is that the handlebars end up about 3cm lower. It’s /almost/ comfortable (the 74° STA means that I tend to slide off the front of the saddle when I’m not pushing myself along at high speed, and lt doesn’t help that when I’m stretched out I’m more front-heavy) and might be doable if I lay back the seattube on child-of-mountainhack to 73-72°, but for right now I kind of miss that 3cm.
—orc Thu Jul 2 23:27:55 2015
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