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Pedicabbing Tales - A Great Saturday Night
My night started out rough - the (hopefully) annual Rickshaw Races were taking place… It’s a big pub crawl race where the participants have a bingo card of drinks they have to drink and a list of rules. Included on their bingo card is “Give your Driver some Water” and “Drink Water” and on their list of rules is “Tip your driver $25 - no ( Read more... ) -
Pedicabbing Tales - Awesome Night
Just to show that pedicabbing isn’t all doom and gloom, I had an awesome night last night. There were two concerts playing in town - one large band at the amphitheatre and a symphony down at the memorial building, performing a tribute to Queen. My night was made however on the first ride, which was a stylish and attractive computer geek (I know ( Read more... ) -
Pedicabbing Tales - Broken Speaker
It was a Wednesday night and a terrible pedicabbing day. The weather was cool, but only because it kept raining every hour. I was feeling surprisingly relaxed about this however, as I’d been the first one out on the road and gotten a really good first ride. Two petite Asian women and a little girl who wanted a tour of the capital building. I ( Read more... ) -
Pedicabbing Tales - Mister Big Shot
The other day I was coasting up the road with another driver when we got flagged down by a group of three - a young lady, her apparent date, and their third wheel. They wanted to go to a club a few blocks and a massive hill away - no problem! The young lady and her date climbed into the other driver’s cab leaving me to spend a shockingly long ( Read more... ) -
Pedicabbing Tales
I picked up a second job this summer to make a little extra money for the school year. As a hobby, it's wonderful. I get to ride a bike around an amazing city, pestering people and generally getting paid for it. It's not very much money, but it's a lot of fun. Getting the job was very easy - we're independent contractors so I called up, went ( Read more... ) -
A Surreal Experience
It has not been a quiet week in the land of Arienna... Well, two weeks really. First, I lost my job. My perfect, wonderful job that I was constantly grateful for having... Gone. Then, I broke my tablet laptop, that which I use for school notes and art work... And being freshly unemployed am in sort of an awkward place about replacing. Merf. ( Read more... ) -
Back on the Road!
So I spent most of the last couple of weeks off my bike, waiting for this saddle sore to heal (and I will never, ever use that saddle again, so say I), eating too much junk and feeling cranky. But yesterday, my various bits and pieces felt pretty good so I bundled myself up in my below freezing costume, and biked to school.
My trip started a ( Read more... ) -
The End of the Year
So it's officially the last day of the year and like many people, I'm reviewing my year. There were, like every year, lots of good and bad things. I... have no inclination to dwell, I want to keep this reasonable, so I'm going to lost some of the things I'm proud of.
- I went back to school full time
- I maintained a 4.0 GPA
- I biked to school all but ( Read more... )
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Christmas Ride
My parents usually go away for Christmas, but this year they decided to stay home and since I had loose plans to see the young man, come New Years, I thought I’d head up to their place and be fed. Somehow I also talked my father into going for a ride with me… though he warned me that trail conditions might be a bit rough so I should bring my ( Read more... ) -
That's My Bike!
The universe occasionally decides it ought to heighten my pleasure by introducing anticipation delaying tactics into my joy. Yesterday I was all set to take my new bike out during my lunch break but her tires needed some air and when I clocked out and ran downstairs, half in my bike shorts and giggling like an idiot… I discovered I didn’t have the ( Read more... )