So I found out one of my good friends' engagements broke up because the girl was an alcoholic coke addict who, while we were all supposed to be writing letters to the judge about how we never see her drink, was in fact getting black-out drunk on a semi-daily basis. Makes me glad I didn't say anything about never seeing her drink, and gladder that the wedding is off.

And today I had to pay $44 for this:

So that I could have both a right-hand mirror and a front brake. And of course, the thread for the mirror is wrong, which meant I had to tap it for the mirror, which of course is 10mmx1.25, which is so fucking impossible to find that there aren't any in Los Angeles, which led me to believe that I'd have to Amazon that shit like my bolts (FUCK Los Angeles), which would push runtime off by another week, but then I discovered that there's a MOTHER LODE of bolts about 4 miles away masquerading as an Ace True Value and they had EVRITHANG including an M10x1.25 tap. And the fact that I don't have the right size tap wrench and needed to kludge a rig together involving an allen wrench and a 1/4" socket didn't even matter 'cuz it fits, goddamn it.

And you know what? I'm glad that my wife is too busy to go to San Diego tomorrow because that means I have an excuse to try and get my motorcycle running instead of humping 2 1/2hrs down and 2 1/2hrs back with a toddler and a 7am call the next day just so that my absentee mother can see her granddaughter for the first time.

The kid's pushing 2, ma. And you didn't schedule shit. And we'll make time but goddamn it, some of us aren't retired. And yeah, it'd be great to catch you on an up cycle but you can wait a few days.