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Okay, but this is the problem with everything here.

I want to go biking (or remove some trees, or run the woodstove, or own a truck, or use a snowblower, or...)

I get out my bike. It needs a going-over: it's dirty and there's dog hair and lint in the chain and it's not shifting cleanly and I have no real concept of what's going on in the bearings and the tires are flat and I don't know if they leak or not.

In Vancouver I'd take it in to the shop.

Here I need to find degreaser which luckily I have and don't need to order online, find chain lube ditto, remember how to clean the drivetrain, and do it. Okay. Done.

Now I need to watch you tube videos on how to adjust shifters until I understand it, and do it--

But wait! I don't have a bike stand. So now I need to build a bike stand. I need to scavenge some lumber and get out my tools and design something that'll hold the bike, even if it's just some 2x4s screwed into a tree. Where was I?

Oh yes, now I need to go back to youtube and try and remember what I just learned about dealing with my shifters. It's my first time doing this, so it's gonna take awhile and I won't get it quite right so I'll need to come back to it a couple times-- on the first try I can't trust the bike on a long ride yet.

Tires pumped up, ok, but I have no idea where my bike pump is, I can borrow one from someone. Great. They don't seem to have a big leak but no way to tell if there's a slow one yet. So again I'll need some short safe trial rides.

Bearings, well, I've just spent basically all my free time on this thing for awhile. I have other things I need to do. I guess I just ride it and hope they're all good until they're not, at which point I stop using the bike and maybe bring it in to Prince George next time I go in.

Every damn thing I do up here is like this. It's one reason I'm so overextended. Any one thing takes a week of intensive learning curve and materials searching.

(Or more realistically in Van there's be someone to do it in exchange for some pork or something, and I'd cook while they did the thing, and it would be lovely, but hey)
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My very dear friend Andrew went on a vacation and left me his keys, so I've been staying in a space with my own real bed and a locking door for the last few days. There's a kitchen where the dishes stay clean if I do them, and I can play music, and a bonus cat. It's close to my friends and work, so there's no commute to keep me from sleeping or break to my spontenaeity.

I've been cooking meals for myself: salad, meat, sides. I've been petting the cat for half an hour a day. I've been going to sleep at 10 or 11 and feeling human when I wake up.

It seems like Blake is out now, but he's left some stuff and doesn't want to talk about getting it back. I guess that means it's my job to pack it up and either store it or throw it out. He would no doubt be livid if I threw it out. He also still has the keys, but isn't yet ready to return them to me, so things are not as well as I'd like. I've been popping by to feed and water the animals; tonight is New West potluck so I'll be staying there and waking there and trying to feel out how to best start the massive cleanup job that space requires.

I wish I had a little more money to get some nice house things. That went on hold for two years, it was so irritating at the time (he never even got a dresser for his clothing, I would have had to pay for it) but now there's nothing to lose or divide on that front. I want another book-case (for my canning stuff) and a rug for the front of the fireplace.

I have my bike back, and went biking with a rainbow-haired poly dude I met at the masquerade. I love biking, and it was so, so nice to talk about poly to someone who is independently coming from a similar set of desires to me: not dyadic or heirarchical is particularly a thing to me right now. I do not want to get sucked back into that ill-fitting trap.

My brother is trying to convince me to buy a juiced-up electric scooter/"bike". It's pink and lovely. See: I wish I had money.

I sat down to write about my experience of kink originally; I'd had a discussion with a friend where he said something about a belief or experience that it was usually less intimate than sex. That was so far from my experience that it spun off a lot of thinking that wanted to lead to talking, but by that time there was nobody to talk with.

I'll have to write it later. For now, I should go get ready for work. Be well, folks.

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