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

[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.