bellingham rainy days

AH Bellingham rainy days.. now we finally begin the winter season. my poor ramp though is getting ruined!

haven't posted in a while, there've just been a lot of life struggles going on.

feel free to spare yourself this description of woes:

found out the extra cutco job was crap before ever beginning. FINALLY got the landmark thing sorted out using half of this months phone minutes. got pulled over for expired tabs, and had let insurance lapse too (again!). talked the cop into a warning ticket. got insurance and registration the same day ($150 instead of $800). the clutch and brake pedals in the truck have been progressively breaking and flopping around since i bought it a few years ago, finally making it undrivable last week. paid a hundred bucks for the pedal-assembly, put it in with davey's help. but behind the pedal assembly between the brake master cylinder is an also broken brake-booster tied in to the vacuum system that we did not discover until put back together. REDO. just got back from shop for $310 that i had to use from this months rent money. GREAT. my vacuum broke today too.
my 500G external hard drive has crashed taking all of my footage, music (except for what's on my ipod), multi hundred gig movie collection and most sadly all those things i don't even know i've lost with it. it's a physical failure, can hear the drive spin erratically so the only real option is to (of course) buy a new one of greater size, and attempt a data recovery transfer project. BLEGH!!


got a second job at domino's to help cover this all, and try to stay up. far better than being mired in sadness. will start next wed "rush" if my truck keeps working.

since i can finally skate again, that has once more become my release for the stress and frustration. even though i'm an achy old man nowdays.
have been working my BUTT of learning proper flip tricks that POP, AND doing them all switch too. will make a quick vid of my progress soon! a little silly to be skating inside on the linoleum in a tiny space because it's raining, but still can practice proper technique.

so yeah... been a little overwhelming in ways with one thing after another and the steady overall feeling of always WANTING to MOVE forward with some bigger projects already. lots of sweet options waiting for someone to DO them. lol

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the personal mental challenge encountered when engaged in open technical learning while overcoming the realities of fear, pain and failure, coupled with the unique physical state reached during extremely demanding focused effort and involved with blending all into "flow," have the power of complete removal from the usually understood "world," instead providing us insertion into a sort of impulsive all-or-none timeless "NOW moment" whose experience as a departure from "regular" daily life powerfully affects the psyche.
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