Friday, I spent my day off getting my car fixed up and legal to drive. After a new battery, inspection, and renewed registration, my wallet was $300 lighter and my hoopdie, the first car I've ever owned and the love of my automotive life, was a pretty happy camper. Granted, she still needs a clutch (and probably a new engine), but it's fun to be driving a small, light, manual car again. What the car really needs is a roof rack, but I'll pretty much settle on any means of bicycle-on-automobile transportation short of paying a sherpa to sit on the roof with my bike and gear strapped to his back. I don't have anything against Tibetans per se, but my car's engine would struggle to haul even his diminutive body weight around. And just like that I have another reason to buy a lighter bike (or a bigger engine)!
Not exactly the best day off. Making my car happy made my bikes upset. Inanimate objects don't usually scare me, but my bikes outnumber me and their numbers are still growing. The mountain bike is getting especially restless and I'm afraid that she might leave me. This is also strike two for fun on days off. I first struck out last Tuesday when I was stuck in the Ikea Maze of Hell for six hours. Naturally, after each strike out I choose to block out* those horrid memories by drinking ridiculous amounts of alcohol to the point where I couldn't ride a bike even if I wanted to. But as with most things this Idiot does, this method of "dealing" with my problems makes riding bikes later on all the more painful, especially now that my legs have atrophied to the point where soon Yao Ming will soon be using them as chopsticks.
A Note on the DMV:
I know everyone complains about going to the DMV. It sucks ass. There are always weird smells, crying babies, and faces to be punched. But it works as a serious negative incentive for motorists to drive more carefully, keep there cars in running order, and generally be more responsible on the road. What would happen if there was a Department of Human-powered Vehicles?
Endnotes:
* blackout
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