Bought my new bike today.\u00a0 Got a good deal on bike that’s “last year’s” model (’cause the\u00a0 new ones come out in a few weeks in Canada.)\u00a0 It’s black, and it weighs almost nothing, and it’s got disc brakes (with hydraulic fluid in the “cable:” I was not aware it worked like that.)\u00a0 It has those clicky shifters (one for up and one for down.)\u00a0 It’s fancy.\u00a0 I also got new fenders for it, and said I’d install them myself.<\/p>\n
I was wrong.<\/p>\n
I tried, believe you me.\u00a0 Put them on a number of different ways, Googled some stuff, tried some other things, but I really should have had the guy install them for me.\u00a0 Whenever I try to get them on, it would look almost right, but the wheel would rub.\u00a0 An inauspicious start, at best.\u00a0 I’ll ride with the big idiot stripe up my back for a week, and then drop it off for one of my free as-long-as-you-own-the-bike tuneups, and have them put the fenders on, ’cause I’m either doing something wrong, or have the wrong thing.<\/p>\n
Man, I hate that feeling.\u00a0 I’m good at solving puzzles, but there’s certain things I just can’t do, ’cause I’m afraid I’m gonna break something (like my new $800 bike,) and can’t help but think it’s me<\/em>, y’know?\u00a0 Part of learning to be a manager is, for me, learning to leave things in the hands of other who’re more capable.\u00a0 Others whose job it is to get something done that I can’t figure out.\u00a0 Get something done cause it’s their job, even though I think I *can* figure it out.\u00a0 Not worth my time, or the stress, or the half-doneness we might end up with if I don’t give it to an expert.<\/p>\n On an entirely unrelated note, the movie “The Breakup” with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston, and I hated Vaghn’s character so much I *actually* had a stomach ache by the end of the movie.\u00a0 Like, was causing myself stress.\u00a0 What’s up with that?<\/p>\n I think I’m tired today.\u00a0 No real reason, but it seems that almost every weekend, there’s at least one day in which I feel kinda low.<\/p>\n Or maybe it’s just writer’s block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bought my new bike today.\u00a0 Got a good deal on bike that’s “last year’s” model (’cause the\u00a0 new ones come out in a few weeks in Canada.)\u00a0 It’s black, and it weighs almost nothing, and it’s got disc brakes (with hydraulic fluid in the “cable:” I was not aware it worked like that.)\u00a0 It has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614751,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614749\/revisions\/87614751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}