Hmm. One of the two mirrors I bought didn't screw into where it needed to screw into. I don't think I'll bother sending them back because I really only needed one. I just don't like that they don't match. The new ones are a bit strange in that the objects in the mirror may be farther away than they appear. If that is an issue (this results in a smaller viewing area) and a simple, small, stick-on convex mirror doesn't work for me I may consider sending it back for that reason. I've thought about trying to rethread the stem that won't screw in but that means I'll have to find or buy a metric tap and die (I'm not sure how that's spelled) set.

The foam rubber hand grips I bought didn't fit either. The throttle side I don't think would fit at all and the clutch or left side was too long. I couldn't send those back because I already cut out the ends to make it work with my bike. That's not a problem though because I was able to pull the foam rubber off of those and stick them over my old grips and that's the part I wanted them for anyway. I got them to cut down on the vibrations going into my hands, wrists and arms. Hopefully it'll work.

I put them all on after work but I haven't gone for a ride yet. Today brought some big news for RR and I figured she'd want to talk about it so I decided to stick around the house in case she accepted my invitation to call me. She worked today at two different places so she only had about an hour window in which she could talk. I suppose it's somewhat petty to point out that I made a small sacrifice so she could talk to me, but darn it. I want the credit on this one. :P

DH came over and hung out for a while. He borrowed the movie American Splendor from a co-worker and we watched it a little after 8pm. It's a quirky biographical docudrama about Harvey Pekar. In 1974 he started writing comic books about his normal somewhat screwed up life. I enjoyed it. It's rated R for language so I wouldn't watch it with my mother or my sisters (who are also mothers) but it's not a kids film.

I'm burning CDs of files for the guy who said he'd work on the audio for our short film. I'm rendering out a full quality video file of the whole thing for effects processing. RJ wants to get this thing done. I don't blame her at all and sadly enough, I'm the bottleneck here. So I'm doing a bit tonight.

That's most of my evening.

Bits and pieces to enable riding
sat outside the door boxed and waiting
the door was opened and then was closed
with box possessed in the interim

cut the tape, lift the flaps peer inside
all is in order with what was ordered
somethings, perhaps, different than thought
nonetheless I am undisapointed

the time too short in the morning
to put them all together
and besides, the skies were gray
and the weatherman calls for rain

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and yesterday I bought that jacket. It's too easy to spend money. I wondered again whether or not it should have been spent even though it is a useful, maybe necessary thing. I want to start making larger payments on my so I can get out from under that load. I may need to replace the tires on the thing before too long too.

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and today a woman rises to see what I've written and briefly forgets the committee that's meeting to decide for her a potential fate.

Lord, grant them wisdom and her as well.

I don't have many memories of God working in my life. Things don't come to mind immediately. That worries me, but it's in our nature to forget and I haven't written things down in those terms. Mostly, I figure I'm just partially blind.

I can say that I have been used to say the right thing at the right time on a few occasions. That's a start, right?

It was warm Saturday... warm to the tune of in the 80's with a lot of humidity. It'll be more of the same on Sunday, I think. If I had gotten the mirrors I ordered for my motorcycle, I would consider going for a ride. I think Rachel may be considering it. With my bike running rough and having recently been wrecked, I don't think I want to go on a long ride in the countryside (away from cell phone service) on it. As it currently sits, I don't want to ride it in traffic while it's missing the left mirror. I suppose I should've just bought the ones at the dealer in town. Oh well, it's too late now.

My brake lever has come in but it's supposed to be rainy until next Wed.

The parts I ordered from the dealer are in.

I'm still waiting on the parts from JC Whitney to arrive.

The bike should be up and usable soon (I hope).

The netflix I've been waiting for has finally arrived. We can now finish Escaflowne. Netflix didn't used to have the whole set so we got stuck halfway through it. Now they have it and it's sitting at home waiting for us to watch.

Okay. The DVD will need to be finished tomorrow. I decided to try to make the menu loop and the software I'm using isn't cooperating very well.

I didn't think you were obsessing obsessing obsessing obsessing obsessing. ahem. I just thought I'd share some thoughts :D

I'm not worried about you in this. I just tend to want to parrot things, certain doctrines or life advice when something reminds me of them.

It's raining today. It hasn't been a downpour but it has rained. The last time I was out it was just a heavy mist. If it weren't a little too cool for my preferences, I'd even call it nice.

I should have the DVD I'm working on finished up by the end of the day.

Not knowing. It can be hard and frustrating. It can be unnerving. It makes it hard to make plans. It's one of those things in which your attitude makes a world of difference. You can spend hours and hours thinking of what may or may not happen. There is a reasonable amount of preparing that you can and should do... especially if the road splits into two or maybe three thereby limiting the possibilities. However, it's pretty easy to get so mired in the speculation that you lose sight of the present. Sometimes you just have to focus on what's at hand and trust God for the rest. "...do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matt 6:34)

Yeah, I'm not saying anything new or anything you don't already know or haven't been telling yourself. I suppose not having a firmly closed door can be just another way of teaching you to trust. Everything will work out. We know this. We don't have to have plans in order to survive or thrive. Sure, they help, as do having goals, but ultimately there's very little that we can control.

Blah blah blah :D

Another evening with not much done.

Tim and I watched Disney's The Pacifier at the $1.50 theater. It really wasn't very good. I liked Garfield better... except for the cat. He was annoying. At any rate there's a large section of movie where they just show a bunch of random scenes of Vin interacting with the kids. It doesn't seem to have a narrative thread through this section and most of the time one scene doesn't set up the next scene. The ending wasn't entirely unpredictable. At least the characters were mostly likeable.
At last I think my website has been completely transferred to the new host. Yay. Now I just need to redesign it from the ground up... just like I've been saying for the last two years.

And then I played Worms 3D.

Good night.

Yesterday I got my new passport. yippie. now I can flee the country... um.. take a vacation abroad.