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Afternoons and coffee spoons
Mar. 19th, 2011 02:22 amBiking was more successful today, in spite of a 40-knot headwind. I was only a little out of breath when I got back from Davis; I wonder if it is less that I was out of shape yesterday and more that my body was out of fuel after a day at work.
Reason #11 why I like Ace Wheelworks1: around Porter Exchange, my chain started jumping. I figured it had stretched (suddenly?), and since Ace was two blocks away I took it in. The fellow measured the links, and found nothing wrong. Then he fished around in the rear gears with tweezers and pulled out a wad of paper. Jinkies! Fixed in five minutes; cost to me = zero, modulo feeling like a doofus for not checking that myself.
Today's experiment: afternoon coffee-and-working-on-the-book at Diesel, followed by both evening and late-night writing, otherwise known as "What life would be like if I were a full-time writer." Parts one and three worked great; part two, not so much, since I have a wife and sometimes I need to adjust my schedule around her. But I finished chapter 29, which means I have only seven chapters / 96 pages left to revise. And a logjam broke free in my head on a major underpinning plot point of the central mystery, to appear in chapter 30. The new configuration makes the whole edifice a bit stronger, I think.
1 Provided you get lucky with the employee lottery; there are some duds working there. Sorry, guys.
Reason #11 why I like Ace Wheelworks1: around Porter Exchange, my chain started jumping. I figured it had stretched (suddenly?), and since Ace was two blocks away I took it in. The fellow measured the links, and found nothing wrong. Then he fished around in the rear gears with tweezers and pulled out a wad of paper. Jinkies! Fixed in five minutes; cost to me = zero, modulo feeling like a doofus for not checking that myself.
Today's experiment: afternoon coffee-and-working-on-the-book at Diesel, followed by both evening and late-night writing, otherwise known as "What life would be like if I were a full-time writer." Parts one and three worked great; part two, not so much, since I have a wife and sometimes I need to adjust my schedule around her. But I finished chapter 29, which means I have only seven chapters / 96 pages left to revise. And a logjam broke free in my head on a major underpinning plot point of the central mystery, to appear in chapter 30. The new configuration makes the whole edifice a bit stronger, I think.
1 Provided you get lucky with the employee lottery; there are some duds working there. Sorry, guys.
