Posts from June 2014

Last night while @paul and @terry were at a wedding, I decided to go on a bike ride with @YesThatCasey, @libertad, and our new ginger Joe friend. We rode around for a little bit before deciding to go on the new First Friday party ride.

It was really awesome. Henry from GObike just started it last month. He had a gigantic speaker in a kid's trailer to provide music. We started at Colonial Circle, rode down through the west side, up to the bike path and rose garden, and finished down at the Liberty Hound. There we met Kerry before riding home to meet Paul and Terry.

I can't wait for next month's ride. Every first friday of the month at 8pm, Colonial Circle.

The same guy that made @paul's robot shirts was chalking at the Allen Street First Friday



The theme for the ride was Hawaiian shirts and leis - the leis were pot leaves







The bike parking garage

On Monday, @terry grilled and cooked out for @hodown and his mom.

Watermelon, cheesy potatoes, salad, tofurky sausage and corn on the cob


@hodown instagramming her food, right before her phone fell in it

Sunday, we headed over to the pride parade. @paul had the great idea of using sheets to cover up the protesters - there were only about 5 or 6, so it went perfectly. @paul, @flacidness, some co-op house kid and I held the sheets and actually ended up chasing them away.

@paul holding down the fort

@terry throwing some shade

Afterwards was the festival down at Canalside, which had a count of 20,000 people. It was so packed.


The rest of the night was spent having a good time in the backyard. It was pretty much a perfect summer day.

Saturday, after the skyride, we went down to Allen to watch @heidi, @Dianne, @xandra and a bunch of other people we know march in the Dyke March. The weather was perfect and the dancing at the festival after was fun.

@paul, @terry, @YesThatCasey and I rode the GObike sky ride today. Casey and I volunteered for the preregistration and setup.

The day was perfect for a ride. The skyway itself was a anticlimactic but still very cool.

The ride was about 28 miles, and Paul managed to make it the whole way. I was proud.

Who drives this? It looks like they invested a lot of time in it. @paul wants to drive it.

@terry has been teaching me how to cook. I know how to follow a recipe and end up with something resembling food. But I don't have a good workflow, taste for what needs spice, when foods are done cooking, or anything a recipe doesn't tell you. I've already learned a ton - soon I'm going to go all domestic and have June Cleaver dinners ready when P&T get home after me.

Wednesday we made a huge green coconut veggie curry with rice. It turned out pretty good, but a little bland without added spice so @paul could eat it. The only thing I would do differently next time is use actual coconut milk rather than the coconut cream that we had. It made it too thick and sweet.

@paul went on a crazy house cleaning and repair binge during his week long "vacation". I helped him out in cleaning the green room, which was absolutely trashed.



We already got rid of the fiberglass infested carpet, cleaned up the plaster from patching the ceiling entrance for the inebriated, and vacuumed up all the trash left over. It actually looks okay now.





Paul and I thought it might be cool to sand down and stain the wide plank floor, and fill the gaps in with some filler, either rope or an epoxy. The floor is ugly but still solid.

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We got back from camping, rested a bit, and headed out for a bike ride down to the Canal and up the riverwalk.

On the Riverwalk/190 overpass, right after the tunnel we heard someone yelling. All of the sudden, this kid comes flying around the corner on his bike way too fast. He nicks @YesThatCasey's bike and slams head first into Terry's chest.

It was terrifying. @terry was scraped but up and walking quickly while the kid took a while longer. Besides asking if he needed help I didn't know what to do. The kid said he was fine, and when I asked him about his bike's broken brakes, he said he they haven't been working. It seems so behindert that he would go flying down an incline like that with no brakes - if he didn't hit Terry he would have gone head first into a concrete wall.

The kid didn't want any help and rode off. Poor Terry hurt his knee and sprained his hand - I guess it could have been worse.

Afterwards, we cut the ride short to get groceries and make dinner at home. We grilled, had corn on the cob, cheesy potatoes and white bean hummus. I was so full.




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