CBC left for Long Island today. We talked on the phone for over 3½ hours last night, well past my bedtime. Last night wasn’t the only long, late-night phone session this week either. Jesus that girl can talk. Headsets, I tell you, are a godsend. In fact, halfway through last night, when it appeard it [...]
Shit hits the fan, officially, starting this week. For the first time in my life, I’ve put my personal needs ahead of business ones and have spent most of the past month sorting things out with myself and with CBC. I am just tickled with the way I’ve been able to manage my feelings, work [...]
Just a quick note to say it’s all good between my ears and with CBC. No major issues, no minor issues. I have a longer entry in progress to fill in the details of how adjustments are happening in my head. But I’m very busy right now and it may be a while before I [...]
[Note: This is still unfinished, but I have to post what I’ve got to provide some context for the Wednesday March 30th entry. Posting this on the 30th, but backdating it so it’s in the right place in the timeline.] Today I met with Pam, former Interim Executive Director of the GAGV, facilitator for the [...]
Almost forgot. I am taking a vacation in Toronto to coincide with AA’s 2005 International Convention. With any luck, the stupid ferry will be running again by then. I’ll be arriving a day early on Wednesday June 29 and staying through to Tuesday July 5. Stalker alert: I’ll be staying at Dundonald House between Church [...]
Funny how when I want to cry it just won’t come. Anyway, after a nice, long, nearly comatose sleep last night, I feel better. I feel a bit foolish for seeming ungrateful to have found a friend in CBC. All whining about it not progressing beyond that aside, I am grateful. Willie’s advice, or commentary [...]
From here on in, Web-Boy will be known as Cute Blonde Chick, or CBC for short. CBC’s eyes lit with delight when I said, “Wait. I have a present for you,” when we parked at the café before the meeting tonight. “Don’t get used to this sort of treatment,” I continued while fishing around in [...]
I may not stop laughing for a week. The Universe, God, well and truly has a sense of humor. And irony. See, my long-term ex, Vince, well, his current partner is Toni, formerly Tony, a male-to-female transgendered person. So is Web-Boy… er, Web-Girl… er, well I’m still a little confused here. Still has the male [...]
We came. We came to. We came to believe. In the rooms, this succinctly describes the first three steps. Sometime during the day yesterday, I came to—with regard to Web-boy. Lemme ‘splain… Since our phone call 10 days ago when Web-boy told me, “I’m making some changes in my life that I wanna tell you [...]
Writing all that out yesterday got it off my chest enough that I could begin to think a little more clearly. I first thought of some advice I gave to sponsee earlier in the week. He’s got this obsession over a guy who, even he agrees, he should be running away from screaming. I told [...]
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Someday we’ll all look back on this, and plow right into a parked car.
Just as man evolved from four feet to two, some have evolved from four wheels to two.
Tourers and commuters are a lot alike. Both breeds usually choose a sturdy, yet no-nonsense bike, and both usually have to carry more than your usual OCP roadie. We take tips, tricks, and underground secret information from almost every other type of cyclist, chew it up, and spit out a form of cycling science that manifests itself as a fusion of both basic transportation and recreational riding all at once.—ax0n
You shouldn’t anthropomorphize bikes. They don’t like it when you do that—JustBrowsing
Somewhere on gayforums.net there’s a thread that goes “I just shaved my legs and got some tight lycra shorts. Do you think it would make look like a cyclist or not?”—From yet another “Does wearing lycra make me look gay?” thread on bikeforums.net
I don’t hate cars per se, but the lifestyle they encourage is as lethal and self-destructive as any drug.—Cosmoline
I guess for me it boiled down to a realization that a bike was the right tool for the job. Using a 3,000 pound vehicle move me and my briefcase 2.5 miles to work everyday was like using a steamroller to press my shirts—they'd be wrinkle free, but an iron would be a better choice.—chocula
Starve a terrorist—ride a bike to work. It’s not just good for the environment, it’s good for civilization.—NotAsFat
When all the gasoline runs out, the Priuses are going to be dead on the side of the road right beside the Hummers.
Who is more patriotic, the person who commutes to work on a bike, or the guy who slaps a US flag decal on his SUV that gets 12 miles per gallon?—Jim Caple (ESPN)
I’m on the odd side of now but the right side of history.—Woodog
What’s the point of a bike if you can only ride it on weekends and you can’t even carry anything with you?—madfiNch
I don’t ride to save the environment, auto fuel, money or even to get exercise. I ride because I enjoy it and as a consequence, I get the benefit of the other things.—Charles Vail
What I need is a tandem, a squash racquet and a daring & ruthless accomplice. Is anyone in?—Chris L
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.—Peter Golkin
If one is going to be hedonistic and NOT actually in Jamaica, well bicycles ain’t such a bad way to go.—PansyPalmetto
Skilled city cyclists move through traffic like gazelles through a field of fat cows.—JoeyBike
Biking isn’t a sport because anybody can do it. I can bike, you can bike. For goodness sakes, my mother can bike! You don’t see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated, do you?—jack002
Bicycles move with the flow of the Earth—Nikki Giovanni
Let’s have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle—US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Putting slicks on a mountain bike is like putting a dress on your best friend Bob. He still won’t look like a woman, and he won’t ride like one either.—Platypius
They’re just bikes. Ride ’em in the rain, salt, snow and crap to fully appreciate them.—Mike Zanconato
One of the best things about bicycle commuting is that it can mitigate the displeasure of having to go to work.—BikeSnobNYC
When you approach an intersection think of the cars as affectionate cats that are going to try to rub themselves against you.—BikeSnobNYC
It’s like bikes. Give yourself a budget. Then double it.—grscha
Rule 9: If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.—The Rules