Xydexx Goes Shnopping

For those interested in the absolute minutiae of my life (and those people are out there... I know because I've seen them freak out when I bought new sneakers) I went shopping at Target today. It was part of my devious plan to collect strange bottles. I bought some ponytailers, a jar of olive-and-pimento cream cheese (in a nice short square jar), and a pair of black khakis (the ones I have now are starting to get a little shabby-looking).

I was also considering buying another bike lock. Herein is the problem: Previously when I've been hauling my bike around on my car, I've locked it down to the tow-hook thingy on the underside of the car when unattended so it doesn't get stolen. This is the first time I attempted this since buying the Prius, and I discovered the cable doesn't quite reach, nor would it fit through the gap if it did. So my problem is twofold: I need a cable long enough to reach the existing cable, and also narrow enough to string it through the gap in the tow-hook thingy.

While I was there, I noticed one of those combination locks where you set numbers for the lock. Except instead of numbers, it had letters so you could set a word as your combination instead of trying to remember a number. Brilliant! So I played around with the letters on the lock until it said "FART". This pleased my inner 12-year old to no end.

That's an obscure inside joke based on a funny (for once) attempt to troll me. I had posted about my biking adventures on another blog once, and an anonymous someone replied "ha ha, you ride a bike. what are you 12?" I'll admit, that was funny, but probably the best example of a troll backfiring had to be when someone accused me of "pulling a Xydexx" because I don't, y'know, live on the internet. Hard to believe, I actually do crazy things like, uh, go outside.

You know... outside. Fresh air. Exercise.

I mean, seriously, I still haven't come up with a response to that. "HA HA, YOU GO OUTSIDE!" Um... yes. Yes I do. I'll send ya a postcard when I bike the entire 184 miles of the C&O Canal later this year. -=)