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Adventures in Bicycling: 1983 Raleigh Condor (almost) Finished
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From the beginning of my first quality bicycle purchase and beyond. Commuting, Touring, Maintenance, and everything else along the way. Saturday, June 18, 2011. 1983 Raleigh Condor (almost) Finished. I decided to do a little wrenching. The brake lever hoods I ordered from the Halifax Cycle Gallery. I've also ordered some brown Salsa bartape for this from JensonUSA.com. Other than that it should be together soon! I'd like to have one of these for it. But it will have to wait. June 18, 2011 at 9:50 AM.
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Waitress from Mensa: The Metal Men
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. The local iron and metal scrap yard is like something out of. On a typical day, a long line of flat-bed 18-wheelers and old pickup trucks wait patiently in line to be weighed before and after dumping a load of twisted metal,. In Spanish. Beyond the scales and office, spindly cranes literally. Huge pieces of metal across the junk pile. Amazing! Metal salvage is an entire underground economy of which I was ignorant. Now I actively look for metal to set out for the metal men to r...
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Waitress from Mensa: Okra
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. First published in the Brazos Valley Farmers' Market newsletter, September 15, 2012. The prose in The Lost Crops of Africa is sublime.]. Leads off its surprisingly entertaining chapter. On okra on a 1974 survey of least-liked vegetables. In African dialects, the word for okra sounds similar to gumbo ( http:/ africhef.com/Okra-Recipes.html. And indeed, it is regarded with reference in New Orleans, where it forms the basis of signature dishes, such as…gumbo. 8220;In reality okra...
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Waitress from Mensa: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013. All distilling down to the seven-year-old essence. Back to the highly recommended. Series, and the latest iteration,. As a recap, the. The maxim rings true. Some at 21, some at 28, some much later, but as they reached adulthood, the essence of their seven-year-old selves. Posted by Waitress from Mensa. Links to this post. Sunday, November 3, 2013. Daylight Savings Time, entertaining and informative. Looking forward to springing forward, this essay was written last March.
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Waitress from Mensa: Daylight Savings Time, entertaining and informative
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Sunday, November 3, 2013. Daylight Savings Time, entertaining and informative. Looking forward to springing forward, this essay was written last March. My home state, Arizona, declines to participate in spring forward, fall back exercises in sleep deprivation/confusion each year. The convention of sliding around the clock to accommodate.what? Has long outlived its usefulness. Still, I love the fact that, staring last Monday, I can now bicycle home from work in—what's this? Posted by Waitress from Mensa.
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Waitress from Mensa: King Corn: Review of the documentary
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Friday, February 22, 2013. King Corn: Review of the documentary. The documentary encompasses several layered stories. First the use of corn and corn-based products in prepared food products in virtually everything we eat, including the relatively inexpensive cattle corn feed. (The piece on high fructose corn syrup was especially well done, with the voiceover of the earnest food chemist patiently and protractedly droning instructions of the involved process of cook up a batch of HFCS.). The sympathetic po...
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Waitress from Mensa: January 2013
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Thursday, January 31, 2013. Just doing what an editor does. One of my colleagues called me obsessive-compulsive. It hurt then, and it still hurts a few months later. For the majority of my working life, and even in high school and college, I worked an editor, and I'm still an editor. I corrected some, although I left the quotation marks. She told me I was obsessive-compulsive. Posted by Waitress from Mensa. Links to this post. Saturday, January 26, 2013. Metal salvage is an entire underground economy of ...
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Waitress from Mensa: Dating advice (tongue-in-cheek) to gals in the 50-plus crowd: Pitch a tent, attract a handsome fellow or three
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Sunday, June 23, 2013. Dating advice (tongue-in-cheek) to gals in the 50-plus crowd: Pitch a tent, attract a handsome fellow or three. Twice whilst I was engaged in pitching a tent, three handsome, strong, virile young men came running over, unbidden, to help. I think not.). Second time was at my favorite campground, Oakdale Park. In neither case were we damsels in distress, but, hey, it worked for a moment. Posted by Waitress from Mensa. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Waitress from Mensa: August 2012
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Thursday, August 16, 2012. One of those days. In the interest of forestalling any administrative problems that might stand between my graduate students and their graduation, I organized a short lunchtime meeting. Topics to be covered: deadlines, application for graduation, final oral defense, thesis submission, tips for thesis preparation, etc. I asked students to start eating while I changed from bicycle clothing to office attire. Two student fetched ice in a cooler. Posted by Waitress from Mensa. The R...
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