This past week has been garish, the worst in the entire existence of my conscious thought, honestly.
But it’s over.
Tamika and I had the best make-up period in the history of couples making up. My eyes were aching by Thursday from the sheer volume of saline that seeped from them. And they were kissed away so delicately and so gently and so lovingly that my soul was planted again and coaxed once again to grow.
In the entire history of the world, there were seven broken hearts that were completely healed. And this put them all to shame.
The wounds will heal, at least this I know. God formed me with a thick hide.
It rained, and rained, and rained. And it was COLD. I’ve doggedly stuck to my motorcycle, though, even though prices of gasoline have plummeted below 2.45$. Wow, 2.45$! I remember when it was 1.63$… Something like last YEAR…
It did rain terribly one day, though, and I used the excuse that I had sold 8 framed photographs and drawings at a block party at my church and that I needed the car to carry them around as a reason to drive to work. I’ve gotten into the habit of updating the information of the pieces I sell to read something like .:Hanging at such & such:.
I like it, it makes me happy. I don’t sell my pieces for very much, about 12.00$ for a 8.5×11 print. I like getting it out there, I like people to be able to decorate their homes.
I have been doing a whole lot of freelance work, though. My boss, Chris, hired me on the side to design the Huggins Website (www.hugginsprinting.com) which will be completely done at the end of this month. The website they have up now honestly isn’t bad, but it’s not easily updated. So they haven’t updated since 2003.
The persistence of the addiction had gone down quite a bit, and though the temptation is still there, I’ve been getting more and more support, and it’s enabled me to resist it.
Greg (Berte’s husband) has been working on the Wiiskichaan with me a lot, and last time I visited we took the carburetor apart. I’m getting more comfortable with him, and he with me, and it’s been giving me the opportunity to ask him more questions about what he’s doing and how things work with my motorcycle. I still don’t feel like I have much of any intuitive mechanical knowledge when it comes to engines, but I’m slowly getting better. Together we figured out why my choke was messed up. It was set to idle regularly when it was fully open, so naturally, when the choke was closed when the motor is warmed up, like it’s supposed to, the engine stalled for lack of air. We adjusted it, and he showed me how the vacuum diaphragm worked, and said I could expect to get a lot more mileage, since now the engine wasn’t revving so high when it was standing still.
The throttle still goes high when I’m stopped, but Greg believes that’s because the throttle cable is bent and wrapped around the wiring so much that it doesn’t slide well enough. I was thinking to myself that I might also be able to put some graphite down it so it slides easier.
I asked him to look at my chain as well. On my trip to Canada the chain fell of in Vermont. The guy at a Yamaha shop that was nearby said my back wheel was not tight enough and so he tightened it. However, months later, my chain fell off, and has been falling off more and more lately. I’ve been able to pop it back on, much like I would pop the chain back on a bicycle. Greg was shocked when he saw my chain. He said normally chains have about ½ an inch of play (which means they move about ½ inch of up and down movement in the middle of the chain). My chain had about 3 inches.
I went out and bought a new chain (about 35$) and hopefully I’ll get to put it on this week.
Tamika left her Jetta’s sunroof open on the week that she was in the Bahamas, and with all the rain, it kinda filled up with water and stinks. And THEN when she started it, the engine light not only came up, but blinked. Upon looking up what a blinking engine light meant, I discovered that when an engine light blinks, the problem is so bad that the onboard computer thinks the problem is so bad that it might hurt the engine. So tomorrow, I’m going to drive the Jetta to work. I found out that unbeknownst to most people, AdvanceAuto, provides FREE computer checkups from their shops. And there’s one right next to Huggins. I’m hoping it’s ok. I’ve been letting her drive my Passat in the meantime. I don’t mind in the least because I have my beloved motorcycle. 