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  • Stabled Mounts; CTA; 911: I Wonder if He will Run me Over?

    Number of comments: 12
    Friday night was the University of Illinois—Chicago annual bicycle scavenger hunt. Jonathan, his brother Ben and I were a team. Based on the format last year, I didn’t expect to be competitive (lots of ‘clues’ that were more befuddling than enlightening). We heard a rumor that cargo capacity would be [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2006, 5:36pm EDT

  • Happy Birthday Jonathan!

    Number of comments: 1
    Life Updates:I officially became a Board Member of Chicago's bike advocacy group last week.At a meeting with Illinois's pro-bike State Representative, I inquired about initiating legislation to requiring drivers to pass bikes with three feet of space. For the first time in the meeting, she reached down to pull out [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2006, 7:31pm EDT

  • Brrrr...

    Number of comments: 3
    (backdated -- a post that was written last week)Brrrrr....Winter came today. There were snowflakes whitening the sky and making the streets wet when I went back to my office after a morning meeting.My decision to get the Julep back into shape was timed nearly perfectly. Last Friday night the Dork [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2006, 7:29pm EDT

  • Happy Anniversary!

    Number of comments: 2
    Today *celebrates* my second anniversary working at my law firm. I biked to work in the rain against a strong headwind, on the Dork Bike (unlike the Julep, she has fenders). My sleep the night before was restless – apparently the decaf label on the coffee I drank in the [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2006, 1:49pm EDT

  • A requested Update...the Julep Rides Again

    Number of comments: 4
    Life has been busy....work still sucks...and time marches onward.This Sunday I was pretty productive – I did ALL of my laundry and consequently cleaned up my hellpit of a bedroom. There not only is a floor now, but it is also swept and clean. Then I stripped my fading basil [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2006, 11:08am EDT

  • That Darn Cat

    Number of comments: 2
    Recently Blackie has been getting herself locked in strange places. Up until the last few weeks she was somewhat scared of "outside" and happy to stay indoors. For no apparent reason, she suddenly became fascinated by the outdoors, and started to bolt between our legs whenever we opened the door [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2006, 9:05am EDT

  • Sunflower Massacre

    Number of comments: 4
    A violent crime scene has overtaken my garden.Some vermin, critter or pest has decapitated all of my sunflowers. Their tawny heads lie broken and dead, seed casings strewn carelessly about, at the foot of the once noble plants. Not a single sunflower head remained unscathed to continue worshipping the golden [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2006, 4:32pm EDT

  • I'm back.

    Number of comments: 4
    Where have I been?In my goddamn office.Doing what?Dealing with too much work and too much boss-inflicted craziness, while my blood has fluxuated between a roiling boil and a steady simmer. My always-crazy boss has outdone himself recently.Another young attorney quit suddenly, with neither money in savings nor another job lined [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2006, 2:35pm EDT

  • Police Torture Probe

    Number of comments: 4
    Today we released our report on Police Brutality in Chicago. This is the project that I have spent the most time on at my job. Check your newspaper for more information.The final report is new to me also -- so now I get to paw through it to find the [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2006, 3:45pm EDT

  • Blood Donation

    Number of comments: 9
    I had to leave my friends at the Farmers’ Market early in the morning for an appointment to donate blood. On the way downtown it started raining buckets. This route takes me through the most tourist/yuppie/cabbie infested part of town and is no fun to get through. Today though, the [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2006, 7:34pm EDT

  • PRIDE Parade 2006

    Number of comments: 1
    For the third year in a row I organized a ‘bike float’ in the PRIDE parade for CBF. As usual I waited for the last minute to really do anything. So Saturday afternoon I scrounged around the new CBF office to search for supplies. Stupid.On Sunday morning Jonathan decided to [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2006, 7:51pm EDT

  • Bike. Dance. Boat.

    Number of comments: 0
    OK, I'm almost a full weekend behind posting. The upcoming weekend involves more biking, boating and dancing -- plus the PRIDE parade, hopefully an outdoor movie and possibly an ArtCar festival. Oh, yeah -- work, too.I'm busy -- here's last weekend:Boating, Biking, Dancing.This is the trifecta that Jonathan seeks to' [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2006, 3:39pm EDT

  • Mystery Postcard

    Number of comments: 2
    The correspondence in my life is just getting weirder.I received a postcard at work with the following text:For the Life OF Me, do NOT know why you Would Want To have your PICTURE TAKEN With the Femi-NAZI shoes? CERTAINLY, I hope u don’t Ride with the Femi-Nazi Shoes!What a TRAVESTY!A [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2006, 10:03am EDT

  • The Julep's Long-lost Brother!!

    Number of comments: 3
    On Wednesday night I left work to help Katy plant/water/weed at Eckart Park. She somehow is in charge of the planting at this park. She is awesome and volunteers so much in so many different communities. Love her.I rode Northwest on Milwaukee, but instead of getting into the left turn [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2006, 12:12pm EDT

  • Open Mouth; Insert Foot

    Number of comments: 4
    After grabbing breakfast on Sunday morning, Jonathan and I went for a lingering walk around the neighborhood. I hopped up onto his back to get a piggy-back ride and made horse whinny noises as he bounced me on his back. I wanted him to trot instead of just plod along, [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2006, 11:31am EDT

  • Special Delivery: Kryptonite

    Number of comments: 2
    A perfect set of circumstances ocurred unexpectedly. I was running a wee bit late for work as I tried to unlock the dork bike from the fence – the lock simply wouldn’t budge even after wasting precious minutes struggling with it.Finally, I ran back upstairs to put on a pair [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2006, 3:28pm EDT

  • Darwin Award Nominee

    Number of comments: 6
    I saw a dumb woman almost get hit by three different trains at a wide, multi-track railroad crossing. Many of the train crossing deaths in the region occur because people wait for the first train, but don’t realize that it obstructs the view of another train coming from the opposite [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2006, 3:23pm EDT

  • Milestone Anniversaries

    Number of comments: 1
    Several one-year anniversaries snuck past while I was preparing for trial.Many important changes happened in April/May 2005, and the year in between has been pretty damn cool.Beginning the New Era, my clunky hybrid The Tank was stolen on April 8, 2005. Very, Very Sad. But this was the kick in [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2006, 3:36pm EDT

  • Nose Bleed Sex [Warning: TMI]

    Number of comments: 6
    Too Much Information! Adult Content! Beware!There is a topic that I have been omitting recently: Sex.I'm dating someone.There are several reasons to give pause and hesitancy to this relationship. However, they are all Completely, Utterly and Totally Destroyed by the fact that the sex so far is abso-fucking-lutely Amazing.Last night' [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2006, 7:37pm EDT

  • Friday Lameness

    Number of comments: 4
    The horror/joy of Saturday’s ride completely overshadowed the disappointment of Friday night:I made plans to meet with my friend Chris to work on the cookbook and begin experimenting with vegan lemon bars right after work. Later I would meet up with Isaac for a drink or two.At 4:30 in the [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2006, 7:12pm EDT

  • Grueling Hills -- I Should Know Better By Now!

    Number of comments: 7
    Salt stains on my helmet straps from the day's sweaty ride.On Saturday my friends, Grant, John, Michael and I took the Metra train up to Harvard, Illinois. From there we biked to Lake Geneva, WI. The ride was going to be around 60 miles round-trip and several parts were supposed' [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2006, 8:09pm EDT

  • Minneapolis, Here I Come!

    Number of comments: 6
    I will be in Minneapolis the second weekend in July (7/8 - 7/9)to visit my big bro.If any of the Twin Cities bikey-bloggers want to get together again, please let us know. Maybe we could take a ride together! [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2006, 9:46am EDT

  • Tuesday Thunderstorms

    Number of comments: 2
    When I left work around 8:00pm on Tuesday it was drizzling, and I understood why it was darker than I had expected it to be. Literally less than a block from work the drizzle morphed into a downpour and the sky began crackling with lightening and rumbling with thunder. Absolutely [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2006, 10:22am EDT

  • CCM, Boats, Yoga, BBQ, Bike the Drive, Pen Pals

    Number of comments: 2
    What an amazing weekend.Friday:Critical Mass on Friday was awesome: very mellow, a great route, great weather and no hit & runs or police intervention (at least that I know of). I rode the Breeze and had an all-around fantastic time. Jonathan and I then pedaled farther South to Hyde Park [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2006, 8:55am EDT

  • Happy Cabbie Friday?

    Number of comments: 3
    "Doing a good job cyclist!" said the cabdriver as we waited at the light. He was smiling and not a drop of sarcasm was in his voice. I had recently passed him to cut over into the left-most lane. Weird. A few intersections later, at another light, a different cabbie [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2006, 1:26pm EDT
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