Life is what happens while you are making plans. I wrote about working on my 12 year old clunker on Monday, well yesterday I got a flat tire on my motorcycle. Had to ride between gas stations to keep air in it to get it home. Yesterday afternoon I took the tire off and put it in the back of the clunker.

Nutri-nazi got home and her car battery died so I had to take time to go get a new battery for her car. Got up this morning and took the motorcycle tire to have a new tube put in it. Got back and started to install it and saw that the brake pads were worn out. Ran to the shop for rear brake pads. Expensive, very expensive. Stopped at Sears to get 12 point sockets to take the brakes apart. (New thing these days is having to use 12 point sockets for certain bolts, time was six point sockets were favored, but no more.) Anyway, got the brake pads on, got the tire on. Then tested brakes, oops, pedal is all soft, need to bleed the brakes. Back to motorcycle store for equally expensive brake fluid. Bled the brakes so the pedal is all solid. Put it all back together and ready to ride. It is 96 degrees with a heat index near 106 right now. I am not going riding right now. I would have come back with the moisture content of a Cheetoh. Something you learn while living in Texas.

I am very dehydrated already anyway. My pants were soaked to the knees, my t shirt needed to be wrung out. I showered up and I will hide out in the house until later tonight. I am drinking water like it is beer. Wishing it was too. After chemo, then next week I'll have some beer.

I get a lot of satisfaction out of doing the maintenance on my vehicles myself. It is tough but I figure I am learning and saving somewhere near a hundred bucks an hour on labor, at least on the motorcycle. Only about $95/hr. on the clunker.

So anyway, tomorrow, another chemo infusion. Another Thursday. Then next week I have an off week. Such as it might be, it will take me until Tuesday to feel even close to normal and then maybe Friday I can really enjoy a beer or two.

That is all for now.