Down and Out

I have had non-stop trouble with WordPress on two computers in two locations today. And my bicycle race. God bless the internet, hm? I expect, when I read the national news, that it’s going to depress me, but yesterday it was the local paper with the news that just makes me feel powerless in the […]

Travels with TL: Montrose Redux

Perhaps you will recall that right before we moved, we were waiting for “the metal guy” to come get all our large scrap metal, but he didn’t come when he said he would, so at 5:30 prior to a 6 p.m. walk-through by our buyers, Lynn and I were flinging metal into the backs of […]

Triumph of Love

In the aftermath of the most notorious school shooting of them all, the inestimable Ed Quillen of Salida, who among many other pursuits was a Denver Post columnist with a large and dedicated following, wrote a highly personal column lamenting the loss of the casual use of his daughter’s name, which is Columbine. We have […]

The Long Haul

Bicycle races have been a hit or miss proposition in Colorado, more miss than hit. When “they” (whoever they are) stage one, it seems quite successful, but I may not be the only person in the world who doesn’t understand the financial model of bike racing. Even now, as an experienced spectator, I have no […]

We Are Family

You wouldn’t really think of City Market as such a large place. Many people I know complain about having to go there. No one has any love at all for the parking lot, but the chief complaint I hear from shoppers is that they run into everyone they know, so shopping takes a lot longer […]

Bugged

Years ago I bought a Sleep Number bed from a woman so desperate to sell me things that she had to be working on commission. Sleep Number will only sell at their own stores, so that’s obviously their choice to pay people in that manner, and then it turns out that for all the money […]

Showered with Attention

I took a shower the other day (hold your applause) and went in determined not to come out until I figured out how everything worked. Well, I’m out, without even wrinkling, but much of my space-age machine remains a mystery. I have to say, the parts I’ve figured out I really like, and my showers […]

Three Weeks In

We have now been in our house for three weeks, even if it doesn’t feel like it. I don’t actually feel much more unpacked than I was two weeks ago; I haven’t done anything enough for it to yet feel like a routine; and I’m beginning to wonder if the final construction pieces are ever […]

Volleyball, Anyone?

I was AWOL yesterday. I scheduled my annual medical check-up so that it slotted into my blogging and bike racing time and thus missed both. For some reason thought I might be able to get something written at lunch, but half of my hour is taken up with transportation, half with lunch and the third […]

Fireantsy

We had guests last night, unplanned and unwelcome. The ants that can be found everywhere outside have started to find their way in. Invasion of the Ants — wasn’t that some campy ’50s horror movie? It’s not as campy on your own doorstep. Which is where they seemed to be arriving from, so I went […]