This Space for Rent

Jul 31, 2019

Birthday pie

Birthday pie

It is very convenient that sour cherry season more-or-less overlaps my birthday.


Road closed

... but not for bicycles!

… but not for peds & bicycles

Jul 26, 2019

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite cap

Dust Mite keeps everything under my cap


Return to sender

Return to sender

I got a commission to unmangle a frame that had a car back into it (newly purchased bicycle + garage == bad news) and severely bend the rear triangle, so picked up up on tuesday, unbent and aligned it (fortunately the process of unbending it fixed the alignment, because it’s a pretty ancient machine and I’d worry about popping some of the brazes if I actually had to apply the 2x4 of cold-setting justice to the rear triangle), then loaded it up and took it back to the bike shop this afternoon. When it came home it was just lashed to the bob yak trailer, but I took my Thule fork clampy thing off the xtracycle and moved it to the yak before I took it back.

It’s easier to carry a frame when it’s actually fastened down than it is when it’s merely lashed into place.

Jul 20, 2019

We made it

The lunar lander from the command module

Apollo 11, 50 years on

Jul 19, 2019

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Peaches & Mite

Les pêches (et les acariens de la poussière) est arrivées!


Raptor photo of the day

A wandering chicken

An african junglefowl wanders through our neighborhood

Jul 18, 2019

Trolley photo of the day

Green-Red on the bridge over Water Ave, the ORHF's shop yard, the SP, and Division

Red/Green pauses at the end of the bridge over Water Ave, the ORHF’s shop yard, the SP UP, and the foot of Division as it waits for the signal to change and let it cross MLK.

Jul 15, 2019

Wide Load

Cargo

Taking a couple of packages to the post office

Jul 12, 2019

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Hardware engineering

A Dust Mite sized dns server waits for me to make a tiny case for it.


Floof

Companion cat

Thor keeps me company

Jul 11, 2019

Ugh

Not the greatest week for ER visits

This was not one of my better weeks in the health department.

First, on friday, I managed to pull a muscle in my waist while messing about with racks, and made what I now recognise as a horrible mistake by taking half an oxycodone tablet before going to sleep. This messed up my sleep (hallucinogenic dreams do not make for a restful night) and I fainted going down the stairs (on the landing, so there wasn’t any spectacular tumble, but still enough so off I went to the emergency room to be prodded and scanned to verify that it wasn’t symptomatic of some deep seated “this is wrong”. It wasn’t, but it left the left side of my face & body covered with bruises and scrapes.

By itself, that would have been annoying enough, but on Tuesday I had been running a bunch of errands and was a whole 800 feet away from home when I suddenly got hit by labyrinthitis (labyrinthitis is one of those fun things where one second everything seems fine and then your ear canals go on strike and all you can do is lie down, close your eyes, and hope that the fact that you’re pressed against solid ground is enough to keep your stomach from exploding. Walking, let alone riding a bike, is right out) and ended up going back to the emergency room because there was no way in hell I could have made that last 800 feet by myself. 12 hours in the ER, completely with a couple of bouts of Exorcist-style projectile vomiting, and not being able to fully knock the nausea and dizziness down until I was able to get a line into my arm (not a trivial task, because I am literally screamingly needlephobic and have to do some pretty extreme measures to quiet my subconscious down to the point where the ER staff can get the needle into me) and get enough fluids & IV valium & antinausea goop into me to stop my ears from spinning and my stomach from flipping out.

So for the past few days I’ve been lying in bed, only occasionally climbing out to use the bathroom, and, at least today, to do the laundry.

It has been, as they say, one of those weeks.

Jul 08, 2019

In the wild

Update with wrapped bars

Frame #9.5, now rusting away in the wilds of Ann Arbor.

Jul 05, 2019

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite wants to do some randonerdery

Dust Mite wants to do some long rides in the country again

Jul 04, 2019

(blurry) trolley photo of the day

Blurry interurban

I carry my phone in a phone pocket in my +4s, so when it’s warm out and I’m running at speed for a while it starts to get damp enough so that the camera immediately fogs over when I pull out the phone to take a picture of an incoming interurban train. The next rando bag I sew up is going to have to have a dedicated phone pocket either on the lid or inside the body so I can bring along my phone and have access to it as a camera.

—30—

Obéir c'est trahir, Désobéir c'est servir
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