Not much bike time
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This is a tough month. There are times when running your own business isn’t a lot of fun - like when the folks delay and delay paying - some of them for months, and the bills still come in and keep getting bigger Now this is pretty small stuff compared to the people who lost everything in Katrina and the current upheavals going on with Rita, but it’s the life I’ve got to live so comparing it to other people’s greater problems isn’t always helpful even when it does leave me feeling grateful. So my current small problem is the electrical system on the bike. It developed one of those intermittent things which was mostly off and only rarely on. But it only affected the headlight. So I took everything from the switch to the headlight apart and everything seemed to be OK except the switch was a little screwed up. So I ended up wiring in a secondary switch just to turn the headlight on and off. But it runs directly off the battery. Which made the source of the problem deeper into the system where I’m not competent. And I’m short on cash so I can’t take it in. At least with the secondary switch I can ride at night when I need to, which is pretty much every day. But I can’t ride for the pleasure of it. And of all my little problems this month, the lack of any time to ride - just to ride - is making everything seem worse than it is. OK. I just convinced myself that this is BS. I have to take the time. I need to blow the junk loose and flow into the world. Thanks for listening to me whine. Amazing how easy it can be to forget how good it is to ride and how much it helps and how much I need it. Ride to live, Rick
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