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An open letter. To the teenager driving around Lake Calhoun on Tuesday: When I saw you stick your head out the window as we passed, in the back of my mind I thought you were going to offer me a kind, cheerful word. Perhaps you had once experienced the joy of two wheels and known [...]
It took 49 days, but Shirley is out of the scooter hospital.Though the road to recovery may be long, I can assure you it’s a road we’ll be traveling together.Today, Kiddo was formally introduced to Shirley. They became fast friends and look great together.walkonred
Scooter Quest ’08 leaves in… I can’t believe it! If you’d like to help out Team Awesome, please throw a few bucks our way. You can donate by clicking here or here. Or if you’d like to donate directly to Shirley and me, click to see my wish list. If not, that’s cool too. I [...]
If you’re listening, you can learn quite a lot from the Universe. This week’s lesson is patience:, the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. 1: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint2: manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain3: not hasty or impetuous4: steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity5 a: able or willing to [...]
I have a ton of things I want to mention about the past four days, unfortunately, I’m not sure where to start. Chronologically makes most sense… THURSDAYAfter a less-than-pleasing rehearsal for Freedom: Some Restrictions Apply, I ran errands gathering supplies for my impromptu front-yard Fourth of July barbecue. Around 11PM, I scooted to St. Paul [...]
(This post was supposed to appear at the date/time listed. But due to techNOlogy, I could not publish it.) By my watch, I’m 23. Here are a few things it’s taken me 22 years to accomplish: Meeting Chuck Mangione.Buying a condo.Running into this law-breaker while visiting Chicago.Buying Shirley.Riding a 2005 Genuine Stella from Utah to [...]
As promised, I ventured out on a 30-mile scooter ride through Minneapolis. To end my evening, I stopped by Liquor Lyle’s for a few drinks. This evening, I learned a very important lesson: just because you can doesn’t mean you do go home with the girl. That’s a good lesson folks. Ironically, the reason I [...]
(Boring personal emotional post alert.) Horoscope:As much as you try to remain cavalier about what’s happening, your heart is too engaged to be casual about it. Complications arise from your eagerness to focus on the big picture while you keep getting dragged back into the details. It’s challenging to maintain a positive attitude when loose [...]
The end of my evening started with a kind spirited “gentleman’s dancer” informing me at the corner of Franklin and 3rd that my taillight wasn’t working properly. Thank you stranger, but you were wrong. Shirley’s taillight works wonderfully! It’s unfortunate that you don’t know how to navigate the mean streets of MPLS in your Tahoe, [...]
Riddle:What do you get when you take a warm sun-filled weekend, an idiot in a t-shirt, and a passion for riding scooters? Answer:Not only can you ‘walk on red,’ but you can wear it too!
Last night was the end of B-A-N-G-O. Forever. Remember B-A-N-G-O? I first wrote about it here. The top dogs over at Applebee’s decided that their restaurant was not suited for a B-A-N-G-O hall, so they closed the store. The entire community west of Lake Calhoun is realing without their famed neighborhood bar AND grill… I [...]
It’s Wednesday and off to a beautiful start. This morning I had an audition with a production company that makes ads to sell on the web. The company is currently working on a project about walls. Like ‘walls’? Yep. Walls. The thing that holds the roof up? Yes. Like Wall, South Dakota? No. That’s a [...]
Shirley popped her back tire. I don’t know if she’s mad at me because I was riding her in the rain or if it’s because she just wants regular unleaded and not premium, but I was shocked when the tire blew. It was a little after 8PM and I was on my way to a [...]
Here’s some random shots of Shirley.I can’t help but think about my diet habits when I look at these pictures… I like grease, what can I say?
Random, dumb question: If Ikea sold shoes, would they be made out of bright molded plastic like everything else in the store? I’m going to buy shoes today and I’m looking for something bright and ugly… I’ll let you know what I find. Walk On Red edit/Can you spell shoe: S-E-X-Y?
Yesterday I introduced Shirley to Johnnie Law. I was driving north on Lyndale Avenue and apparently, Shirley has a speed addiction. No, no, no. Not that kind of speed addiction! She just doesn’t like to conform to city, state, county and federal laws regarding the speed of a motorized vehicle. Traveling just over 40 mph, [...]
Now that it’s getting warmer out, I’ve stopped driving my car. I’ve been scooting as much as humanly possible, but when we received snow on Monday I was forced to jump into my four-wheeled vehicle. Absentmindedly, I failed to put gas in my car.And I ran out of gas.How could this happen? What changed? I’ve [...]
I’m pretty upset with you. Please note that your April Fool’s Day joke was: a day early and not appreciated. Although, I concede that Minneapolis does needs the water. Yet I’m sure we can both agree it did not need to be generated from five-to-eight-inches of snow! You and I had an agreement: after the [...]
Despite the fact that I had to work today, Wednesday has been pretty awesome. On my lunch break I went home because the sun was shining and I needed to ride Shirley. When I arrived home, I saw a note from the UPS man stating that I had a package and that he’d try back [...]
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