played with timelapse

you can check the instagram link on the left, i won't bother giving a link because i'm sure most people here have seen it...

it was the second bike of the day, first was a test run.... I got slower as the day went on but still managed keep it in profitable range, still...  means just another day of work. Not so bad though, I had the 4th off. It is only the 16th. No so many days in a row, that said, i'm not sure if/when i'll have another day off. Off the bike? likely all week with schedule. Off work? nope. big fat extra nope.

But that's okay.

Gotta facilitate everyone else's vacations.

Emphasize everyone else.

Not bitter, resigned. Is okay.

It is life.

Will try timelapse again when I have something more exciting to build than an 820 or a Marlin 7. Maybe I'll try something at the other dungeon/basement/no window life.

Wasn't surprising that someone picked up on the basement. Couple people did.  Guess that's where the powers that be think I should be. Out of the way, quiet, hidden...  but like the snow piercer, without me everything would grind to a halt...

That said - basement is great, I can turn up music loud enough to drown out anything anyone is saying upstairs that might distract me and draw me in, and I have bikes next to me, and places to put them when they are built.

It is an optimal arrangement. Esp for being alone.

With everyone ghosting me, announced or unannounced, it isn't so bad being alone. Forces me to re-center. focus. Keeping going, one foot in front of the other.

E asked what bike I was going to buy with all this extra work I'm doing this summer. Nothing to buy. Emonda ALR6? would be dumb, wheels suck, might fit but still ALR and heavy compared to S or SL esp SLR, and '18 models are very different, cheaper and lighter, but not avail for employee purchase yet. Same for crocket. Get that with stranglehold? Sure why not! But default is with SRAM and sorry, love them (just not their wheel lacing pattern choices) but I'm a shimano guy and it doesn't look like that's a possibility....  Then what?

who knows....  Santa Cruz Stigmata? I'm making a few extra dollars, not a few extra thousand of dollars....

I did just retire the '09 Propel helmet. It is pretty dead. But replaced with that Lazer I got not so much longer after it. Leaving only the orange Giro at race level... maybe need to get another to balance/in case.

But Helmets aren't bikes...  man it would be so much easier if i wasn't on the far end of the bell curve....  The year my 63cm Klein Quantum Pro was made...they made 3-4 frames in that size. PERIOD. And I got one of them.

How crazy is that. First they had a commitment to keep making the bike size that fit Gary Klein, but that they did and sold it to a few people.. I waited a while for that frame.

It was pretty goddamn expensive. But right now, still probably weighs 2x as much as the Emonda ALR. even with the shitty stock wheels on the Trek.

Still currently, in the whats the point in getting a new bike. What am I gonna do with it?

Nothing.

One more beer than I'll go to bed and go to work tomorrow....  just like today, and the day before, and the day before and ....

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