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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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September 20, 2005

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book, What to do about Personnel Problems
I just walked by one of the HR people, who had a giant binder on her desk: What to do about Personnel Problems. The spine looks like this:

What do do about

Personnel Problems

(I can't help feeling that I am a personnel problem. Outsourcing. Ugh.)

I love my sweetie's bike. Love, love, love. I go up that damned ramp up from the Esplanade to Holladay Street, and it's work, but not unending, thigh-searing, why-does-g-d-hate-me? work. Up the hill from the Rose Quarter, that's okay too. I even recover in time to be able to charge through intersections.

Today someone asked me if it was a folding bike. I thought of the cool Brompton I saw the other day, which folds up so small you can put it under your desk, and I realized that this guy was not a bike nerd—he was just making conversation. Which is fine too.

Today it is cool and sunny, and I had that wonderful synchronism of feeling like the pedals were natural extensions of my legs. The transfer of power, the small movements in my feet, it all affects the ride. I just felt like I could do that all day, and not be happier.

There have been a couple of interesting bicycling stories circulating: the principal who rides to school, the teachers who get paid (sorta) to bike-commute, and now, the bike messenger whose food costs are reimbursed! These are all via Treehugger, mostly via cyclelicio.us.

Cyclelicio.us also posts a public service announcement about protecting your bike from bike theft.

Finally, something not about bicycles. Here's a Vespa video. It's no LambrettTwist, but it's enjoyable in its own way.

Posted at September 20, 2005

Comments

love the vespa video. outsourcing never works it just gets rid of good people only to replace them with people who don't care,

Posted by: Oldman at September 20, 2005 11:32 AM

heh. that's my scoot! and i look EXACTLY like that chick...


...assuming she's been hosed down with nerd.

Posted by: hollie at September 20, 2005 11:38 AM

Hollie, I was like, dude, that's Hollie's scoot. Well, it could be you if you had short hair, straightened it, dyed it a darker red and started wearing skin tight clothes. Yeah, I don't see that as likely either.

Posted by: vj at September 20, 2005 11:55 AM

Thanks for the link love. I've run across your blog before and I really like it!

Posted by: Fritz at September 25, 2005 4:10 PM