I suppose since many of you read this over on Facebook, there's no real need in changing the wording ( Read more... )

Here is some of the wildlife that was on my rear window when I came home last night.

This one asked me if I had any spare change:


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...and since I can't be bothered to upload to a site just so I can HTML code these into comments, Lily on a banana (phone) gets its own post.


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One of Lily's favorite things lately is taking anything vaguely crescent-shaped and pretending it's a phone. She usually just says "Hi Daddy!" or "Hi Mommy!" again and again, which is more than she'll do with a real phone. Recently, in the absence of any properly shaped objects, she will use her foot.


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I honestly don't know how people did fundraising before the internet. I mean, I email people, I post about my ride on social networking sites, people donate online - what did people do before this? Send out actual letters? Wait for people to snail-mail donations? Bug people at the office more? Do math themselves to keep track of it all ( Read more... )

Three years ago today, between days of the Coast the Coast ride (bensmsride.com), I got a Myspace message - yes, Myspace - that changed my life. A beautiful stranger named Corri was commenting on a picture of mine (a childhood Halloween picture of me dressed as Vyvyan from The Young Ones, if you must know). Since then, nothing has been the same ( Read more... )

I decided to make the third ride of the season count, so I got out Saturday and rode 63 miles. Let's just say I hope Saturday's ride is easier. It's reasonable to hope that twenty more miles will be more than offset by chatting with other riders and drafting, right? And Sunday's ride, well, that's going to be hard no matter what ( Read more... )

I'm a teacher now; I'm pretty much done with being a projectionist. But every once in a while, I get a call to run a film. Of those times, it's a rare occurrence when I run something that I don't mind watching, and among those few instances, there may be a film I actively like. Tomorrow, I am going to watch Alien on the big screen. In fact, someone ( Read more... )

Every year I tell myself it will be different. I tell myself that I'll be responsible and not let it wait until the last minute. I won't wait until only about two weeks before my ride to start fundraising.

BENSMSRIDE.COMGuess what I'm doing in two weeks ( Read more... )

I just had to help a family of three put a snake in a box ( Read more... )