I seem to have relegated Sunday afternoons to working in my yards. I often intend to work on other nights as well, and I seem to be able to get about an hour’s worth done on Mondays, but other things (like sleeping, or sitting still, watching TV and eating too much) seem to come up and distract me instead. Compared to what it looked like before I got to it, my yards look great. I still have a lot of work to do, but I certainly don’t mind working glacially on it. I can see results every time I go out there, and that feels good. To be able to go out and lose myself in just trying to get my yard into some sort of shape so much that when I stop for water and glance at a clock, hours have passed, and before I’m ready to stop, the sun sets and forces me back inside. To see yet another pile of branches I have trimmed from a neighbor’s overgrowth, six feet square and just as tall in the middle, and know that I cut all those branches myself with only a small pair of shears (and a ginsu knife for that one, big branch). There is a sense of accomplishment.
Author: Teel
Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.
The internet is dead! Long live the internet!
So I finally got it worked out with Sprint today that my account is being disconnected (I have not had internet access since the end of June) now, and I will NOT be charged an early termination fee. Theoretically, they will let me know when they begin offering service that works despite the presence of trees. I will also pay close attention to Cox@Home’s presence in my neighborhood, because it uses the hardware I already own @ a lower cost than Sprint BBD. Anyway, no internet access at home for a while yet to come, but maybe I can pretend that an antique typewriter is the internet.
Admit it.
“Weaknesses are never easy for me to admit.”
“Weaknesses are never easy to admit.”
Something yellow
My bike is in the shop right now. I took it there Friday night after work. I asked them to do a complete overhaul on it. I also asked them to replace all the parts that were worn out. Based on a quick once-over, this includes the tires, the handlebar wraps, the brake pads, and the chain. The cost of the overhaul is supposed to include the cost of replacing all the cables and the ball bearings, but the guy I talked to wanted to charge me for those, too. With any luck, they’ll replace the rear tube, as well. The estimated cost of the overhaul and parts is $330. If done properly, I should only have to get an overhaul once a year, with maybe a $40 tune-up at 6 months.
The overhaul includes taking every part off the frame, and cleaning everything and replacing all the ball bearings and the cables. So, my bike should very much be in good condition when I get back to it this afternoon. Very much ridable. Very happy. Very good. Yay!
Something old
I have a whiteboard in my sitting room. At the top it says “What do you want?”. For a long time, the only other thing on the board was “rest”. Over time, I found myself more and more able to rest. my insomnia has passed, perhaps for a season, perhaps for longer, and I am able to get a good night’s sleep. Then, after considering it for a long time before putting it up, Saturday morning I put the word “write” on the board.
Later that day, as I was walking someplace else with yard tools on my mind, I passed a yard sale and I saw a typewriter of a style that … very much appeals to me. I was able to purchase it with the last of the cash in my wallet at the time, $14. It works, and with a replacement ribbon, should be a wonderful tool. I have already written a page or two on it. It feels good.
It is an old Remington Portable Model 5.