Good gawd, so much happening today that I haven’t socialed much media (feels great), but before it’s over: TODAY I HAVE BEEN MARRIED 22 YEARS!
I got to spend a lot of time with Valerie today, and it ruled.
Me? Oh, you KNOW I’m Smush’n.
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Just had my first successful sale of some bike parts on Marketplace. Now I just need to sort through my parts and figure out what I’m keeping and clean/photograph the rest so I can sell those and make a little more room in the shed :-P
You know what’s a good word? Trunnion. Trunnion is a good word.
Holy chickens, it’s October already.
Kid’s middle school posted a book fair flyer that was so hideously covered in clip art and Comic Sans that it was honestly charming; refreshing in it’s unlikelihood of having been AI-generated like 99% of same-y school flyers this year. Like, somebody actually made it, warts and all.
Now that’s a spicy Smush!
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I almost didn’t go out on the bike because of the wind but I’m glad I did. The wind was awful, yes, but everything else about the weather was amazing. Had a fun rip on the Diamondback.
I just watched Madame Web and…yikes. The writing was poor, the action was flabby, and I’m sorry to Dakota Johnson who could totally be a nice person, but she has all the charisma of rock. I’ve seen her in a few movies now and she always seems like she just woke up.
If you open an app by tapping on a push notification and it doesn’t mark at least THAT notification as read?
Haven’t Smushed this well in a couple of weeks:
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My wife was just laid off from her job of like, almost 20 years? If anybody knows of a need for a commercial interior designer (with strong office and hospitality experience, deep building code knowledge, and Revit skills) in Richmond, VA (or remote) please hit me up.
I know I’m not even the 100th person pointing this out, but the new bullshit interstate exit for Short Pump will cost ($157 million) more than the entire 2027 operating budget for GRTC ($101 million) and around half the cost of building the Fall Line Trail (~$300 million).
Oh hell yes, my new chubby-tire, comfort road bike is amazing. Say hi to my latest restomod, Shween. More details when I get the chance to give it a photo shoot!
Whelp. My now teenage daughter fits my wife’s #bike. So good thing I built up that Raleigh Olympian for her after all 😂
What, uh…what kind of um…meat…is it?
I can’t believe it took me this long, but I saw Gremlins for the first time last night. The whole dang family loved it. Gizmo’s puppeteering is legendary.
So I think I’m gonna hang on to that Mongoose Alta I picked up for 10 clams this summer just long enough to use for the cheap bike build-off in 2027. Valerie’s cool with it. Kinda hard to pass up starting with a complete #bike for that cheap.
It’s hilarious/depressing that you can steal the attention of the world’s richest asshole just by questioning the truth of his freaking internet posts.
When I played my son “Modern Major General” he asked, “how can someone sing that fast?”
So then I played him Busta Rhymes’ “Gimme Some More”.
I don’t think Richmond’s utility billing issues are resolved; just got my new bill and it says they received no payment for last month, but the dashboard also lists my recent payment for exactly that amount. New bill shows last month balance forward + this month 🤨
Got some old, seized pedals unstuck from a cheap crankset I got off eBay (which is why they were cheap).
LIKE A BOSS.
Anyway, the Scwhinn Crosscut roadbike experiement has nearly everything necessary to finish the build…
It’s pretty validating to have one of the guys from Crust tell you your #bike looks cool.
This fine Jimothy reflector will dangle from the saddle of the next bike I’m building up 😁 (https://parsecobjects.com/products/jimothy-reflector)
It has not been my best year in the #bike, but I did finally cross 4000 miles (6437 km) for the year today. I could still cross 7000 by year’s end if I can get in the riding time!