During mid-week, I had a bicycle repair class after work. Since I would need to bring my bike, it seemed appropriate that I ought to just bike there. I was interested in testing the LED-based headlight (a Christmas present) and charged its batteries during the day. After work, I biked the 18 miles to northeast […]
by Claire Petersky Left Seattle July 9 6:20 AM, Arrived Chehalis 6:20 PM Distance Saturday – 107 miles Weather Saturday: partly cloudy in the morning, afternoon sun; temps from mid 60s to mid 70s. Left Chehalis July 10 6:40 AM , Arrived Portland, OR 6:45 PM Distance Sunday – 97 miles Weather Sunday: rain with
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My dryer is now acting out for attention by leaving rust colored marks on my clothes. It will have to be replaced. Consumer Reports’ recent review suggests either a GE model DPSB620GCWW (bear with me here) or Sears/K-Mart Kenmore model 7699/7698/7697/etc would be a good match for our staggering laundry production. I wanted to compare
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Ride to eat? I didn’t do STP (Seattle to Portland) this year because I felt I was already imposing on my spouse’s munificence by signing up for the five-day Ride Around Washington in August. While 8,000 riders and bandits did STP, I rode SIR’s populaire in Olympia. It’s the same route as last year’s —
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I first tried moving to a CSS-based layout a couple of years ago to shed my use of multiply-nested tables used for positioning. While I was ripping everything apart, I added some fancier stuff. The site looked great in Firefox, Safari and even Opera. My enthusiasm was folded, spindled and mutilated when I previewed the
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In a mobius loop of ads, Gmail is offering RSS headlines in the spam folder: Spam burritos seem so … wrong.
My spider sense told me that my 20-year high school reunion was lurking in the shadows. I found a sealed box with what I assume is my collection of high school baubles and ribbons signifiying my my achievement in the field of excellence. When my kids are old enough to appreciate how much of an
I had a technical seminar this afternoon in Kirkland. Since I biked into work, I planned to avail myself of the bus system. It took a few minutes to figure out the nuances of address specification in the King County Metro trip planner, but I found a rare “direct” route. Getting to my seminar was
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