when did you start wearing pants again?
Good for you!

It's part of the terms of my probation. I don't like it, but I figure it's best to put up with it so as to prevent further...episodes.

as in "All in the Famly" episodes? Or just a general "Mr. Fugazi Dave, stop throwing rancid cantaloupes, come down from the tower, and put on your probationary pants" type thing?

The latter is a closer guess, though you forgot the badgers and the mayonnaise.

dammit..I always forget those. Sorry...

I don't know how or why, since you tried that thing with the mayonaise last night on yourself.

Jeff

Who did I meet again today? I want to match a screen name to the faces. BTW...today was kick ass.

Details! I request details!

For a change, we actually rode - down to the southside on the lakefront path and then back up north and then west. My legs were tired by the end - my body was crashing though that smoothie lasted a while. What did we do? 30, 35 miles? It was a damn good ride. More soon, more regularly. Sorry we missed ya, Pete.

My favourite part - dodging through stupid frat f#$ks at the Bears game, weaving and running crazy through some thick traffic in the city and then, some of us almost got in a near collision with a car - gladly, we avoided the FD fixie curse...

Riders -
Jeff - Stickerguy
Naz - Absntr
Josh - [165]
Ira - Ira in Chi
Andrea - not on the forums? (Ira?)
Jeff - Yuppie

Photos:
http://www.absenter.org/2005/01/02/y...her_ride_josh/
http://www.absenter.org/2005/01/02/y...her_ride_jeff/
http://www.absenter.org/2005/01/02/y..._another_jeff/
http://www.absenter.org/2005/01/02/y...ther_ride_ira/
http://www.absenter.org/2005/01/02/y...r_ride_andrea/

My own curse! w00t!

Finally someone who agrees with me-- btw Zodiac isn't bad either, then Neal went off into Critic pleasing, I'm smarter than you are mode. Snow Crash had swords, nuclear powered sidecards, hot young skateboard chicks. That was what rocked not how "smart" the writing was.

Zodiac is not some super smart story either, it's about this guy who people refer to as the granola powered james bond, sort of a mild, ecoterrorist.

I think Neal got a book deal based on word count, and bigger words pay more too.

dude
I must have really enjoyed that ride...WTF!?!?
ha ha...friggin zipper.

I'm all for the minimalist lifestyle, but do you own more than one pair of pants?

yes, I do.

Same camo pattern tho, right?

not necessarily. I use what I have that works for the ride. Didn't know this was a fashion show or that I had to rotate stock.
I'll make sure to bounce my ideas off the board before getting anything else.
Thanks

I think we may need a "fixie fashions" sticky. Possibly with an accessories and outerwear wear subforums. This topic comes up a little too often.

Sorry, I forgot to add 14,000 smileywidgetthingies to my post to indicate good-natured sarcasm, i.e. humor. [165], keep your pants on. (another 14k smileys). And please, dear god, no fashion sticky.

15000 is my limit for smileygrubens

165 you're cute

awww ....

where the f*** did that come from?

are you drinking again Salome???

come on ... can't I just think you're cute without the implication that I'm drinking? you're not that bad that it requires alcohol to make me think such a thing.

I saw stickerguy at the handlebar on sunday. I missed the ride b/c I was sick (ickky) and my family came down to console me for that and other relationship woes.

yay! familial consolation rules! especially when food/money/over the counter drugs are involved.

Sorry I missed it. Sounds like it was great fun.

Did 165 attempt that thing with the mayonaise again?

Attempt? Harldy.
It was a piece of cake after all of our practicing on Western Ave.
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