progress
i’m back from albuquerque and back at the office. there’s an 8:00 am monday agency meeting that i look forward to all weekend, especially sundays. yay. it’s raining lightly (in portland? the hell you say!) and the motorbike ride in this morning was uneventful. desirée has been running good for what might be the most consecutive days ever. choosing a vintage 2-stroke motorcycle for transportation in the pacific northwest, known for it’s soggy 9 month rainy season, has been called “unrealistic” by more than one person. i can think of many other words like “irrational,” “ridiculous,” “foolish.” why unnecessarily complicate one’s life? a yamaha RD400 has a two-stroke engine. a two-stroke requires diligent maintenance and a skilled mechanic. the ad for the bike back in 1976 shows a guy working on it in his driveway fresh from the showroom. but it was the tail end of a time when motorcycle riders had to be motorcycle mechanics, hence the grease in their hair. but i digress…
i made a lot of progress in albuquerque, including how to spell “albuquerque.” it was an incredibly difficult experience, but i’m characteristically unafraid of challenge and i’m excited by the unknown. interesting that all the factors from my entire life coalesced into someone able to settle the affairs of my father. nobody else could, legal reasons, personal reasons, or undefinable reasons. i had all those reasons, too. all of them. my versions, of course. but the swim upstream through an emotional zambezi was compulsory. i had no choice.
still a list of incomplete items, each aspect of the process has many parts. i work on it every day and it will eventually be completed but never finished.
