The Hawley Blog

I made a mistake this morning. But I’d make it again in a heartbeat. While rummaging through the accounting office candy bowl, I happened upon a new addition called “Atomic Fireball”. Apparently, everybody is familiar with these things except yours truly. Since I’m a candy fiend with a thirst for adventure and the unknown, I [...]

This week has been tough on all of us. The rigors of inter-dimensional time travel coupled with some unseasonably humid weather and a whole bunch of bike product tomfoolery has left the entire Hawley Company exhausted and in dire need of some weekend R & R. I would say “just in time” as this blogger’s [...]

Or is it bemusement? I’ll let you be the judge. Thanks to Kyle for the heads up on this:

It is with heavy heart and lighter wallet that I inform our legion of blogophiles the Hawley company has lost a dear friend today. At 1:47 PM, Melvin Baxter, break room dish sponge and devoted family man, was thrown away after being deemed “too freaking nasty” by the powers that be . After what seemed [...]

From what I’ve heard around the office water cooler and other water coolers scattered throughout this great land of ours, we humans use about 10 percent of our brains. If this is true, then I’m hovering around a quarter to half a percent today. I got nothin’ folks. Nada. Nil. Ought. Zero. Zilch. I stare [...]

Not really, but if somebody saunters over to your cubicle, coffee mug in hand and inquires about “Mondays” and a potential affliction of said Mondays on oneself, then you have our permission to throw a scalding hot cup of coffee on the inquisitor’s face while executing some sort of ninja-style throat punch or eye gouge. [...]

…Even in June! So yeah, thanks for all the get well cards and lavish FTD flower baskets laden with exotic orchids, poison sumac and Venus fly traps. I was out one day but you guys made me feel like I’d returned triumphantly from an eight year bout with “cancer of the everything”. Now that I’m [...]

Teenwolf (Tony Zanca )and a bunch of other dudes locked horns Sunday afternoon for the 2008 NC Road Race Championship. Despite his most lupine efforts, Lobo Solo couldn’t bring back the 2-man breakaway. And to add insult to injury, he was used and abused to the finish as 4th grabbed his wheel and scooted around [...]

Here are items that were traded for Straitline brake levers as of 10:36 AM today:Reggie Gelbarshot of I Can’t Believe It’s Not a Bicycle Shop (Orlando, FL) traded us a box of Tampax (22 supers, 22 regulars and 10 lights) and an empty tin of Tootsie Rolls for two sets of black Avid Juicy levers. [...]