Continuing transition

Posted in Overall, RPCV by Dom on October 20th, 2008

So yesterday I started to get some stuff done, like a pretty serious nap. One of those ones you don’t wake up from. Crazy. More seriously, I got my bike put back together. Spent two hours before anyone else was awake looking for my spare parts box. It was out in the shed. Forgot how much quality stuff I had. Anyway, once other people woke up I was able to find it. It all went pretty smooth except that apparently I did myself a favor and ruined my chain before I left. It was snapped in half and tied in a rusty knot. Never seen anything like it. After spending a few hours on it with a pair of pliers and a blow torch, well no blow torch but carb cleaner. I was able to get it untied and get my half link and power link off it. Spent another half hour cutting and installing my new chain just in time to test ride it and then get in the car to take Chloe back too school. That took hours.

It was a nice trip through some backwoods south though. Small town USA. It was funny Chloe kept yelling at me when I crossed the road because I wouldn’t wait for the little white man to tell me it was ok, or I wouldn’t even be at a cross walk. She claims the cops are that bad. Ridiculous. Had a buffalo chicken sandwich with fries that had spices like those arby’s ones…They were pretty good. Finished everyone elses food too. Then went and got a huge waffle cone dipped in chocolate and peanuts with two scoops of that good hard American ice cream, snickers flavored. Quite quite good. We stopped at this little shop on the way back and got some muskadine and black berry wine. Two different bottles. Pretty sweet, literally. Pretty excited about the bike still though.

Overall the transition seems to be going a lot smoother than I expected. I keep waiting for the rage to hit but it hasn’t. Maybe once I get a new phone and actually start driving places like stores or bars where there’s more people doing their normal(stupid) things. Eh, until then.