I got a new bike last night. I've been looking for a similar bike for a while. It's a classic lugged steel bike (early 90s) with lots of cool details. Check out the embossing in the pictures. The parts are a mixture of Campy (Athena?), Shimano 600, and Shimano 105. The downtube shifters are going to take some getting used to as my current bike has ( Read more... )

I'm learning how to whitewater kayak. Tonight I finally got the roll right. My coworker Barry is teaching me over at Tech. He asked me how it felt to finally get it right and my answer was "surprised". I thought I was going to end up flailing around half out of the water yet again and instead I was right-side up. It was pretty cool. I still need a ( Read more... )

Hey guys, it's been a while since I posted. Tonight I was struck by the desire to post in my Live Journal. I doubt anyone is still reading this (except Kate!) but I want to keep in touch with folks. Talking about my feelings and such just doesn't come naturally to me which I think causes me a lot of trouble. If I only I could tell people how much I ( Read more... )

I have become an urban farm girl. I don't know how this happened. I have three chickens living on my porch that will soon be laying a ton of eggs. I'm growing vegetables at a community garden near my house. Zucchini, tomatoes, herbs, green onions, beans, peppers, and more. I think spring did something to me. I had to grow stuff. I've built ( Read more... )

Well it's finally cold in Atlanta. I celebrated by getting bundled up and taking a long walk. Tweak came with me for his bit of frolicing. Yeah, I have another dog around for a while. He got evicted from the no pets apartment he lived in. Anyway, I walked down to 10th St and decided to go see Serge since we were supposed to hang out tonight. It was ( Read more... )

I finally got data service on my Sidekick. So now I can take pictures and use AIM and email and stuff. Weeeee! A friend of mine runs a blog site for the SK which I'll be posting to occasionally here. Right now it features pictures of my stove and radiator! Hmm, I'll try to find more interesting subjects in the future. Other than that, nothing much ( Read more... )

I went down to savannah, stayed with the folks, and didn't see many people. Lame-o. I did get some nifty presents. The best of them being a wad o' cash I blew on a Sidekick II. So exciting! Right now I'm still waiting for it to be activated, which could take up to 48 hours. Arrrrrrrr. Stay tuned. Ben gave me a pretty cool book on 80s computers. Ah ( Read more... )

Last night I went to Masquerade with Ben and Nash. Wow, it was awesome. I went to 80s night on thursday a good bit this summer (free is hard to pass up even if you're meh about the 80s) which was generally entertaining, but never on saturday night. Saturday is Industrial/Goth/Fetish night. Music included bands such as Covenant, Skinny Puppy, ( Read more... )

Ever taken one of those personality tests? They're kind of nifty, but not the sort of thing I ever put much value in. My bosses, however, decided the whole office should take one called the HBDI (no don't ask what it stands for, I zoned out) since we might do the test creator's website. Basically it said I am logical and creative but not people- ( Read more... )

Aww, cute. So here is my first post. I've finally decided to start a live journal after people telling me I should for quite a while. I'm not very emo, so don't expect any of that rubbish. Instead I'll chronicle the adventures (or lack thereof) of my daily life. Lately my life has been dominated by school, work, and World of Warcraft. Really I wish ( Read more... )