03 Dec 02
I’m headin’ for Vegas after I get off work today. My luck is
hot right now. Yesterday, I got a letter in the mail from a
local Pizza Hut informing me that I’d won a free lunch buffet. How
did I win such a fabulous prize? I dropped a business card in the
fishbowl near the cash register. That’s right. I’m livin’ life
large now. A person with luck like mine belongs at the Vegas craps
tables, not drivin’ a desk.My Schwinn suffered through the final stages of some sort of debilitating
drivetrain breakdown yesterday. For the last couple of weeks, the bike
chain occasionally seemed to slip off the rear sprocket and, as this would
remove any resistance to my pedaling action, would cause my legs to spin
wildly while propelling the bicycle nowhere. After some investigation,
my new theory is that the sprocket is completely disengaging from the rear
wheel and that the fault does not lie in the chain-sprocket interface after
all. Of course, this all came to a head yesterday as I was riding to
work through several inches of freshly fallen (and still falling as I rode)
snow. So, not only hadn’t the roads been plowed, but my form of
transportation was more often than not failing to transport me.
Eventually, I got to work, but I was forced to put the bike on the front of
the bus to get home after work. So, today, and for the foreseeable
future, I’ll be on the bus and on foot. I need to get the bike up on
the rack and arrive at some sort of definitive answer as to the source of
the problem. Then, I can fix the bike and get it (and myself) back on
the road.
I sent out my first Christmas letters yesterday. I’m trying to get
a jump on the season by getting those particular items off my mental to-do
list. Sarah and I are sending Christmas letters and photos this year,
instead of cards. So, watch your mailbox. You may already be a
winner!