Monthly Archives: November 2019
Don’t worry y’all, leaf blower guy has upgraded to leaf vacuum guy. Love how my neighborhood sounds like an airport tarmac on Saturday mornings.
To the guy wearing two back packs skateboarding down the sidewalk chugging milk out of a gallon jug, I salute you.
My son’s 10-year-old friend taught me how to ride up a curb on my bike! 🤘🚲🤘
Ironically, the song most often stuck in my head is Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car.
My son and I have set a goal to eat an entire jar of salsa in one day, which I’m pretty sure meets all of the SMART goal requirements.
The piece of fried bologna I had at City Diner this morning was perfect.
Waiting for the bus at 2nd & Broad
The bus stop at 2nd & Broad has to be one of, if not the, busiest bus stops in the entire city. It services the #1ABC, #2ABC, #3ABC, #12, #78, and #87. That’s 16 total bus lines. It’s seven more routes than what the existing Transfer Plaza handles during the day. It’s one bus every […]
It doesn’t happen often, but thank you to the driver who was paying attention when I wasn’t and didn’t kill me with their car.
In the Dark Times, before the End of Ages, we measured ourselves by how many impeachment podcasts we subscribed to.
She may not dare to make that judgement
From The Thomas Jefferson Hour, The Republic on the Brink of Collapse: We have read, and I believe, that if there could be a secret ballot in the Senate, twenty Republican Senators, at least and already, would vote to convict the President and remove him from office. Perhaps thirty. In other words, there is a […]
Pro tip: Don’t email the new Councilperson-elect and call her by the name of the county Board of Supervisor who resigned and fled the country. 😬
A Perfect Day™
5:30 AM: Good Morning, RVA 8:00 AM: Second sleep 8:30 AM: Bedbound email processing 9:00 AM: Breakfast & coffee 9:30 AM: Writing 11:00 AM: A David Allen Daily Review 11:30 AM: Actual work 12:00 PM: Food burrito 12:30 PM: Actual work that require serious brain 2:00 PM: Bike ride OR ASMR vids 3:30 PM: Actual […]
I spent a good chunk of time today in bike shops with my son watching him try out new bikes. He’s outgrown kid bikes, and now, amazingly, fits on person-sized bikes. He also has opinions on how things look and what features and components he wants. It’s all very charming, but, dang, when did all of this growing up happen?
Dear double cheeseburger from Laura Lee's,
I know we've only just met, but I can’t stop thinking about you. You are, by far, the most perfect cheeseburger I’ve had the pleasure of eating in recent memory—and maybe ever. In a world of overly thick gastroburgers piled high with foraged tubers and doused in aiolis du jour, its a bold choice to […]
We need to add a chicken-sandwich-only lane to Chamberlayne at the Popeyes.
There’s a new guerrilla bus stop bench on the southwest corner of Brookland Oark and Chamberlayne! More of this!
A bicycle built for takeout wings
I’m thinking about outfitting my old bike with just a ton of racks and bags and panniers—make it dedicated errands bike. It’s got wire baskets on the rear rack, which is great, but it still doesn’t give me a way to get a couple of boxes of takeout wings without driving a car. Maybe something […]