Squirrel News and Other Things
Yay, my baby is alive!!! The roadkill on Echo wasn't one of my baby squirrels. Although I grieve for the victim, I'm so glad it's not mine!!!
On a more depressing note, I had a checkup yesterday where I discovered I've gained 10 pounds since my foot operation caused me to quit the gym. Okay, I could have started back months ago, but what the hell? I keep making excuses like "maybe the plate in my foot will shift." Okay, it's not obeying the same tectonic plate laws as our floating continents, but that stretch has worked pretty well for me. Now, my toe is broken. Hell, that should give me another five years, minimum. ANyway, I've gotten so many requests to be the stunt double for the Michelin Man, that desperate needs call for desperate measures. I bought an exercise bike since it's low impact. Gotta get alittle thinner before I return to the gym. My trainer's heart is at risk here. Thing is, I got the cheapest one I could. So after hours of assembly (it takes longer for me than most because I always assemble things twice--once with everything backwards and inside out and the other the correct way after finally breaking down and reading the manual. This one was only in Korean so it took a while.) As soon as the assembly was finished, I hopped on and pedaled. Clank. Huge sound. Bad sound. SOund of many parts breaking. It wasn't in the parts I assembled, believe it or not. It was the preassembled part with the belts and wheels and other complicated things I can't pronounce. With the help of tech support, I spent the next 3 hours disassembling the shroud, removing the pedal cranks (hey, I know the lingo, now!) and adjusting the belt. Found out there were weird parts clanking around that had no purpose (I'll probably discover otherwise when the whole thing disintegrates at 500 miles.) One part was a piece of plastic shaped like a shoe. The other was a heavy solid steel piece of pipe with masking tape over it. The third was a tiny plastic soldier. Just kidding. It was a tin one. ANyway, once the thing was assembled again, I wa so beat I didn't have the energy to crawl onto it. I guess you get what you pay for.