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The city and the city
This is light traffic by the standards of a driving commute in San Francisco. Today, thanks to a complicated sequence of planned afternoon events, I took the shuttle to work. I was surprised to realize...
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Crash
Last Sunday, while my son and I were riding in Golden Gate Park, we were rear ended by a car. The driver stopped, we have a police report, and our son was released from the ER that night. I have a...
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Richmond Sunday Streets
On Arguello heading up to Clement Street Richmond Sunday Streets was last weekend, the last Sunday Streets of 2013. There’s a reason for that: it was cold. This didn’t seem to affect attendance much,...
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Punk’d
When we went to visit my mom for spring break, we brought our rain gear. It rains a lot in Seattle. Unfortunately I lost my rain pants while I was there. That was a bummer—they’re great rain pants—but...
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3 years, can you believe it?
That’s a cat carrier in our Bullitt. There’s very little it can’t haul. So hey, November 2nd was the blog’s three-year anniversary. And I forgot it. Then the next week, I forgot that we were hosting...
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We tried it: Juiced Riders ODK U500
Well hello, long time no see. Both the world and I have been busy, in my case innocuously. I have a new fall class with about 120 students, and thus have missed multiple anniversaries that I try to...
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Christmas tree by bicycle, 2015 (and the 5th year in a row)
Loading up… It’s December, the time of year that we head to the Christmas tree lot and draw stares as we load up a tree on our bicycle. This is the fifth year in a row that we’ve done this. Given that...
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Christmas tree by bicycle, year 8
This year’s tree, dumped into the box as usual: it’s like a 30 second job to load it. I don’t post much anymore, OBVIOUSLY, but we continue doing our thing. Another year on and things are not bad,...
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Christmas tree by bicycle, year 10
What a year it’s been, that no one could have expected. Everything changes. But we still pick up our tree by bicycle. Matt carrying our Christmas tree home in December 2020 As I have mentioned on...
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Christmas tree by bicycle, year 11, belatedly
This is a very belated “Christmas” post, in that it’s now January and our tree has already been composted—unlike many tree hauling folks, we don’t have to bike our tree anywhere but to our home,...
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