Decompression day

[celticdragonfly]

Today is so far proving to be a very satisfactory decompression day.

Which I *needed*. Monday was driving all over doing errands. Tuesday was various disasters including Jamie flooding the bathroom. Wednesday was Jamie's ARD meeting, then an hour of dealing with Walmart and clothes shopping for kids, then taking the kids to Kids' Club in the evening. Thursday was too damn much driving all over town - across town, back again, halfway out, back again, all the way out, back and more to dance, back home again - I started at 8:30 in the morning, and had a couple breaks at home, but didn't get to stay here until about 9 pm. Whew.

This morning's motorcycle ride was great fun, and look!




A lot of today has been occupied by the game Portal totally eating my brain. I was watching fordprfct play it some yesterday and being totally floored and not thinking I could do it, but today I could. I think it's because he'd instantly see the layout and then just start moving, so I never got to get oriented on it. Once I could look around at my own pace and get it, I was solving the puzzles just fine. Which makes me feel good, since it's all spatial problem stuff. Well, and timing. Some of the video-game moving stuff is hard, but I don't have much experience with that.

The bike we got through Freecycle is getting fixed up for Maggie, and we'll start teaching her to ride it. Mine needs to get fixed up, but that will have to wait.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Egad, woman. First motorcycles, and then Wal-Mart. One does not just walk in to Wal-Mart. There is evil there that does not sleep. :)

Niiiiiice helmet. What kind of motorcycle?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it.

Still... three kids, two in school, gotta find cheap sweatpants somehow. And the ones there were actually cheaper than ordering wholesale. After all, we don't want to crunch into the book-budget now, do we?

It's fordprfct's motorcycle, let's see if I can remember what kind it is. I think it's a Honda VX-1300? Something like that. Honda, then some letters, then 1300. Aha, Google suggests that I mean Honda VTX-1300, so probably. It's red, official color name "black cherry", so bike name Cherry. He doesn't usually name things, but I do, so he's doomed.

I want a Silverwing, myself. But y'know, stay at home mom doesn't go that great with owning a motorcycle, plus the whole debt thing. But ooh, someday.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

You do know that a Silverwing will do 110MPH and is freeway legal?

*evil grin*

I want a RED one. Just so it will clash with my hair.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

You do know that a Silverwing will do 110MPH and is freeway legal?

Well, yeah. What would be the fun of it otherwise? A moped was good enough for getting back and forth from home to my college classes back in Lansing, but it'd be pretty frustrating here in Texas.

I want either silver or blue. Unless they ever have a purple one.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

As of the 2007 model year, only silver. The only other color I've ever seen is that glorious dark metallic red Honda and Toyota does so well.

I've been seriously considering buying a used one for the portion of my commute from home to the parking lot where I catch the train to work. As gas prices rise, the parking lot fills even faster in the morning...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

They've had blue ones some year. Since I'm in NO position to buy one anytime soon, between the debt and that I have kids with me wherever I go, I'm not too worried about what colors they have now - surely the blue will have come around again fairly recently when the time hopefully comes.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's *you* that has that icon! I love that!

And, noooo, can't go crunching the book budget. Although if one is patient, one can use the library or if available a good used bookstore to much budgetary contentment... but sometimes you just *gotta*.. :)

VTX-1300. Honda's answer to the Harley Hawg.

Doomed?

Silverwing is a nice bike...

And how well do I know about the budget thing. I want one of them that's in the icon... but time, bucks, and health all get in the way...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

one can use the library or if available a good used bookstore to much budgetary contentment

Oh, absolutely. I've been getting to the point that any time someone refers to a book that sounds at all interesting, in LJ or on the Bujold list, I promptly pull up my library website and request it. I used to do it mainly through the local library's page - but then they put ILL requests online. So now I can ask for almost ANY book, online, immediately. Eventually they get around to getting it and calling me to tell me it's there. It's like a surprise package. I really need to get by the library, they have a new pile for me. I don't always get all of them read, but it's a nice way to poke through LOTS of books. If I like them enough, I may buy some of them. I recently have been going through SCADS of knitting books.

I get very gleeful about the whole thing. The library system is my puppet! Dance, puppet, dance! And bring me books!

VTX-1300. Honda's answer to the Harley Hawg.

fordprfct does jokingly refer to himself and Cherry as "almost half a ton of man and machine!"

No interest in a Harley, though. He quotes to me "98% of the Harley's ever made are still on the road today. The other 2% made it home."

And "doomed" as in "doomed to have me discuss what to name the bike, until it actually stuck and he seems to like it".

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

KCLS is even better. They'll *email* me my hold notices. :) But still. Dance, puppet, dance!

Big dude onna big bike, eh?

My friend who messed his legs up refers to Hawgs as Hardly Ablesons.

Although it's funny, of late a LOT of the Japanese bike companies have been coming out with Harley lookalikes... Suzuki and Yamaha as well as Honda...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

My library has an interesting mix. They used to call me for everything, but I told them I preferred email. So if something from within the system that I requested shows up to my "home" library, they email me. When something from ILL shows up to the main library, they email me and tell me it's arrived and will be on its way to my "home" library. Once it gets there, they call me.

I'm rather pleased to have inveigled my way into all this, as it's the Fort Worth library system, and I don't actually live in Fort Worth. While we were living in the hotel and househunting, I talked Fort Worth into a temporary library card with the hotel as my address. Couldn't live a whole MONTH without more reading, after all, and I hadn't been able to pack much with me. I had seen that there were various subsidiary suburb towns whose libraries were consolidated into the Fort Worth system, so I thought they ALL were. When we bought this house, I saw that it was close to the Saginaw library, and thought oh great, that'll be my branch! After we bought, I found out it's one of the few local libraries that is NOT part of the system, and it's dinky and unsatisfactory. And I couldn't have a regular Fort Worth card since I was nonresident. I eventually managed a scheme where a card at Saginaw got me a TexShare card which let me get a Fort Worth nonresident card free, which gives me access to most of it. I just have to redo the rigmarole every year.

And yes, very big dude onna big bike. Good thing it's a big bike. When he was first talking about getting one, and having me ride with him, I was a little concerned about would it handle both of us, as I'm no small person myself. When he recently pointed out the engine is about the - size? strength? whatever the number means - as his Elantra, I felt better about it all.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeeesh. Sitting on top of 100+hp. I'm not exactly small either, but with that many ponies I'd still be afraid I'd slip and wheelie the thing...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

P.S. lovely icon. :)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

(silly moi. Not bike. Seriously hotrod scooter. Jeez... 'course, it being that hotrod you gotta have the real license to go with...)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I think scooters are just a type of motorcycle. I don't see why they shouldn't still "count". I like 'em lots better.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Legally, the bigger ones are. The real difference is (a) in the complexity and (b) the advantage in protection (and sometimes storage) a scooter gives versus the advantage in maneuverability a motorcycle gives...

They still need a helmet, and they still have you out in the breeze, and if that's what you're after, then modulo being careful, go for it. (I'm actually still considering a scooter myself kinda sorta... jenkitty has said I can't have an actual motorcycle, though, and I don't blame her.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a scooter style much more, although we'll see if my experience with fordprfct's bike changes my mind any. And I want an automatic. Yeah, I can drive a standard transmission car, but I generally don't prefer to, and I don't really want to deal with that on a motorcycle.

Still, it's a far future dream, nothing that's going to happen in the next few years.