Another day, Another dollar
Another nail in the coffin
What a world, what a world. I mean that in a mostly positive way too.
Life has been continuing apace of what it was before, still sticking to my (mostly) quiet life style that I have been trying to cultivate for a little while. I burned myself out pretty hard a while back on that stuff and the whole “in bed early” thing has been a pleasant change. Course it doesn’t always work out but who am I to complain.
Riding has been generally great although I have slowed down a fair amount this past month, only racking up ~5-600 miles to far this month. Still at just about 2,500 so far this year. Getting to the point where she is going to need to go in for some fairly routine work. Although I am thinking that there is a short in the system as well due to my adventures on her yesterday. Bit of a puddle here and there when stopping for breaks. Although I suspect that’s from the overflow hoses rather then anything leaking as it didn’t seem to be running extra hot at all. In addition I blew the same fuse twice and I suspect I know where the short is on that. The part that had me worried is that she was having a hard time starting a bit towards the end. So I figure drop her off and make sure she gets a thorough look see and hope for the best. The only real downside about yesterday was that I ended up with a lovely scorch mark on my forearm from trying to find the source of the puddle. Going to make long sleeve shirts … uncomfortable for a week or two.
In other news it seems that I am going to have another new computer heading my way. A lovely old powerbook g4 which I am actually pretty excited about. Even with its various issues I think it will be bother a handy addition and a lot of fun. More on that when I get her I suppose.
Other then those two bits most of what I have been doing for the past two weeks is reading, cooking and getting shit organized around the house. Recently read The Road and World War Z. I think the next two books that I will be getting from the Library are The Master & Margarita and Down & out in Paris and London. For some reason I have been totally digging on reading again and its been a pleasant change. Only took me 3 years of living here to get a library card. To a library ~7 blocks away. Cooking wise… its grilling season baby. Burgers, pork chops, steaks and chicken have all be getting fair shakes at my place that’s for sure. And as for the apartment… I was told recently that I am “nesting” which is sort of fitting I guess. Been re-purposing things I can’t sell on craigslist and just generally cleaning up the entire damn place to make it feel both like home and like new again. Although I do still want to sell that printer I never use.
Ok, I think that’s largely enough about my less then exciting life. Need to start planning for what i am going to do with my upcoming long weekends. At least the week off next month has a fairly well defined plan.
