I haven’t left yet.
I swear to you – I have been up every morning at 6:30AM and working on getting the bike ready up till 10 PM when the neighbors give me the evil eye if I am using power tools. I kid you not.
The problems began
Saturday when I was mounting the battery boxes and I realized that the fasteners were too short. Being metric, no one in a 25 mile radius open on a Saturday had the specific type of hardware that I required – I know cos that’s how far I went in search of. I ended up settling on #8 SAE fasteners, and by the time I returned to the task at hand – it was 9:30PM, and I wasn’t ready.
I thought that I could leave on
Sunday. Rescheduled the motel. Just a little bit more wiring to do. ACK! It took far longer than I had figured. Well – let’s cancel the plan, forgo the STP, and try again tomorrow (
Monday).
Go up again early… actually I got up twice in the night to eat cos my body is thinkin’ “
We’re gonna go TODAY and I’m hungry so feed me fool!†And I fed the hungry body and went back to bed… twice. Got up at 6:30AM ready to tear arse. Look down the ToDo list, oh yeah – I gotta have that USB-Charger for my cellphone – DING:
1 hour. Um, oh heck I need to cover up that wiring – DING:
90 minutes later. Oh, um – I guess I should pack… hey them new Ortleibs don’t look like my pair from last year… wtf?
DING: 90 minutes of swapping hardware.
My life is but a slew of details strung together by the two brain cells randomly firing in the ginormous void between these two ears. Actually he void is filled with sand but I’m not telling… The only show-stopper left is the 24 hour-day; if we had 30 hours – I would be gone.
But at least I will be packed up and ready to go for the morning. Um, except – there was a problem configuring the Speedict device as the driver won’t load,
but I’m not going to let that stop me. Um, but the turn signals that I bought turned out to be shite; I have 6 but only 4 are worth a damn… no – I take that back, they are
NOT worth a damn.
But I’m not going to let that stop me! But then I don’t have a long-enough bolt for the steering dampener – so that can’t get mounted –
but I’m not going to let that stop me, no!! And I don’t have the Blinkies installed on the rear trailer – but since I’m not leaving right now, it’ll give me something to do tonight after I go fetch me a long enough bolt, two turn signals, and source the right driver for the Speedict – dammit.
I guess it’s safe to say that because I am now TWO WEEKS late that I have added another week back to my vacation. :wink:
So this is my Life: I hope I shall be
v e r y late for my own funeral.
Pictures of the finished assembly shortly.
KF