Author: meisaj

Living in the Cleve

In the morning…

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This morning I got up (reluctantly) at 6 am and checked my bike tire.  It seemed to be in good shape, the rear wheel was still inflated, but seemed to need just a little more air.  Good enough to bike to work on though….

I hopped in the shower and thought about Monday’s biking travesty.  On my way back Monday I got not one, but two flat tires.  I managed to walk my bike back to my apartment (and thankfully it was on my ride home not to work) and then went for a run with Sarah.  I  left the bike alone for a day and finally got to it Tuesday night.

Weirdly enough both tubes had holes in exactly the same spot.  The holes were within millimeters of each other.  It was strange.  So I took a close look at both the rim and the tire itself.  I found no spokes coming through, no nails, thorns, tacks or anything of that sort in the tire.  I felt around the whole inside of the tire to see if there was anything sharp in there and found none.  I then patched both tubes, checked to see that the patches would hold, and put one back in the tire.  I inflated it, put some pressure on it, and it seemed to hold.

After my shower I put a few extra pumps of air in the tire.  It wasn’t bad, the tire just had more give than it should have.  I wheeled the bike to the door, got my shoes on, put some music on the ipod, grabbed my helmet and….. saw that the rear wheel was flat again.  What the hell.

So I’m taking the rear wheel to the bike shop tonight.  I’m just bringing it to work and then straight to the shop.  Although I can’t afford to spend a lot of money on it right now, I just put $350 into my car to have my brakes, rotors and other crap fixed.  Hopefully its nothing too big. Stupid bike.  I ride you to save money (and also stay in shape), not to spend money.

– On a side note, the latest Radiolab podcast describes the bicycle as a perfectly built machine to self torture yourself on.  Or something along those lines.  It made me laugh.

Tree Climbing and Hungry Howies

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The art of tree climbing is lost on most adults I think.  The nimble ability to hoist yourself up a branch or trunk till you get a solid hold and keep climbing higher and higher.

I love climbing trees.  It rocks.  And is fun.  Sarah and I climbed some trees yesterday, and while I don’t have a picture of me climbing a tree, here’s one of Sarah up in a tree.

We ended the day by getting Hungry Howie’s 3-cheeser bread.  I’m not sure what makes their cheeser bread so freaking good, but it was.  We got some at 3 pm, and then headed back around 8:30 for another order.  Apparently Hungry Howie’s is a chain (I’ve never seen one before moving to Cleveland, but we saw one in Florida), however the 3-Cheeser Bread at other locations is nowhere near as good as it is here in Cleveland (well the Hungry Howie’s we frequent is in Lakewood).  Their pizza is alright, the 3-Cheeser Bread is fantastic.

On a side-note, it is awful to live away from Buffalo.  No place out here sells what can rightfully be called a Buffalo Chicken Pizza.  Its a travesty.  And wings out here, a sad sad affair.  There is a Buffalo Wild Wings around here someplace, I may have to hit them up soon for a little taste of home.  Their boneless wings are pretty good.

Turning Lane

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I have been having these weird thoughts about the turning lane lately.

Do you have to put on your blinker in the turning lane?  Just in random observations it seems most people don’t (although I think its close to 50/50).  I always put on my blinker in the turning lane.

I’m not sure what the law states (nor am I really interesting in what the law states about it), but in my own experience I would rather have a blinker on for the unobservant drivers who don’t realize they are in a turning lane with me and could smash up my vehicle if they choose to than not turn it on.  I’m not sure what  has brought this to the forefront of my thought lately but its there.

Oh…and another thing that bugs me.  I have snapped a few pictures with my cell phone from my car lately on the way to work.  I post them on facebook, or here, or wherever and there is always that ass who seems to need to smugly point the obvious out   “who’s driving the vehicle.”

Side note – I honestly don’t think police should be able to ticket us for something as mundane as using your cell phone while driving, when police do it all the time.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cop with a bluetooth headset on, but I have seen many cops using the cell phones while driving.  Not rushing to an accident or anything, but casually driving the streets.  I would laugh my ass off if one police officer pulled over another for using their cell phone while driving.  I think then, I could accept that law.

Anyways, so when I see something awesome while I’m driving I’ll snap a picture, if there’s a place to stop and take the picture, I will, but if not, I’ll snap a quick picture anyways.   And without fail some ass who probably does their make up or drinks their coffee, searches for something in the backseat, eats some food, looks for something in her purse or fiddles with the radio while driving, but sees nothing wrong with those distracting actions, will comment on taking a picture using while driving.  Its moronic, stupid and irksome.

SccccArf

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While it is gorgeous here today and was also yesterday, earlier in the week the nights were still cold.  Sarah stole my scarf one morning.  This is the picture I got later in the day.

Being that it is the first picture of Sarah I think I’ve posted on my website I probably should put a more flattering one up, but the scarf one is just so amusing.

Rare

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It was one of those rare instances where there was no parking anywhere near my apartment.  I decided to count footsteps to my apartment door.  I count to 463.

463 steps to my front door.  How ridiculous is that.