Sean and Marin YAY

Sean and Marin got engaged woo hoo!!!

Sometimes I am not so excited about other people getting engaged. But I am excited for them. And not just because, as Bryan says, there will be an open bar.

Two days after proposing Sean rode his first fixie in Boston and fell off. This is it. His brother-in-law built it and someone posted it as "Seen in Boston" on fixedgeargallery.org. Don't worry, Sean's ok.

Rocks State Park

Rocks State Park was great!

I sent Strawberry Jam no problem. And Martin took pictures.

And then I came down.

And then we went to the swimmin' hole.

Only One Bathroom?

Damn. 3047 Guilford only has one bathroom. I just know that'll be a problem for three girls.

Alleycat Results

Where's H?

More photos here

More bikes

I accidentally on purpose won a new bike on Ebay. Check out those chrome lugs and that sweet fork! Hopefully I can make a bunch of the money back selling the components. Or else I will just save them for a rainy day when I want to turn the bike back into a lean mean racing machine.

I also claimed a blue Peugeot UO-8 at Velocipede, for free. It looks like this:

I will probably fix it and sell it.

Walking to work

I always prefer to ride my bike, but my fixie died and it is raining today anyway, so today I took the shuttle and walked from Mt. Vernon. It is always great to have the iPod in, listening to my new (and old) favorite songs with the Baltimore soundscape in the background. Ambulance sirens dopplering into sight and then into the distance, the mobile Shred-It trucks munching up paper near the hospital, construction trucks beepbeepbeeping as they reverse into a narrow delivery zone. The sights are nice too, like the crew of three Latino guys down in a hole working on a gas line, while their supervisor leans up against the backhoe chatting on his cellphone with his chica, smiling broadly and glancing down occasionally at his men. Or watching the broad back of the maintenance guy walking ahead of me in a grey tshirt, thinking, man, that guy looks just like a meathead. And I bet if he hit you, you would fall down.

I love Baltimore.

28ish Calvert "Bi-level"

This place is only $1350 with a bedroom and kitchen on the first floor, and two bedrooms and living room on the second floor. A little awkward, and the pictures show it after the two college boys were evicted, but it will have all new windows, all doors replaced, the floors will be sanded and polyurethaned, the closets all fixed up with their rods and doors, and a professional cleaning (all trash including icky carpets will be tossed). An interesting layout with two staircases!


1st floor bedroom

2nd floor bedroom (back)

One of two (!) full baths

2nd floor living room

Master bedroom