An artefact of the fantasy bike commuting system is it has encouraged my macho side to ride in the coldest, wettest, ickiest weather for the love of bonus points. Thursday evening it rained, nothing unusual so far, but a cold front moved in during the night. My normally accurate forecasting buddy, the weather brick, was […]
In previous years, the unholy trinity of rain, cold and excessive darkness kept me off the bike from early October through late March. I used the numerous cycling events as a carrot to encourage me to get back on the saddle. However, this year I’ve had no problem biking during the winter thanks to the
Sile Kiernan, a member of the Starbucks Women’s Racing Team, is helping to welcome Sean Kelly and the McQuaid brothers to town for the Bike Expo this Saturday. Pre-expo festivities will ensue on Thursday at 8:00 PM at the Irish Emigrant.
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I’ve seen various incantations of this “learn more about your friends” meme going around. Here are some of the responses.
My daughter received Clue Mysteries” for Christmas. It’s a spinoff of the venerable Clue. There are fifty gamelets whose solutions depend upon proper setting of these little wheels on each character that players have to “interview” using secret decoder tools. It’s a bit cumbersome, but she digs it, which is what really counts. One day
Ouch. (Hat tip to Steve Leahy.)
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A “pox party” is where parents deliberately infect their kids with chicken pox so they’ll become immune sooner than later. We had planned to have two one-child families over for dinner Saturday evening, but Family A decided to send their kid to a pox party earlier in the week. My kids had the vaccination, but
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