the week of fixing things

This is going to be the week of fixing things.

Thanks to Andrew Hall for the new wheel. What a difference it makes to have a wheel that doesn't warp all over the place, rubbing the brakes at least once a rotatation! haha. With Ben's persistant tutoring and the continuous need, I'm slowly becoming familiar with bike repair. I dredged up an old bike repair manual from the basement (Our basement is positively a mine for cool stuff. The only thing I've wanted but not found down there has been a turn-table / recordplayer). Makes the daily commute a little easier.

My car is getting a Starter transplant as we speak, having waited to get a starter heat shield shipped in from who-knows-where. So I should have a car again for weekend roadtrips as of today.

Ordered a replacement system board for my laptop computer on Ebay, for a total of something like $36. That's about 90% off the retail price from Dell for a new systemboard.

I found a sewing machine in the basement and am trying to set it up, only I can't quite figure out where the thread is supposed to go--there are all these protrusions that look like they're supposed to guide the thread, but, oh! in what order, etc? Then maybe I can sew closed the holes in my pockets and so forth.

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perverse schemes

i had two odd ideas lately.

1. go back to berkeley to get a business degree. absurd, i know, given how nauseating i've found the haas campus and its denizens. i was pretty much turned off to this after seeing all the stock photography on their web site.

2. move to portland. a passing thought. what's in portland, anyway? i mean, industry/universitywise?