Adam Hinz: The Blog
Life Update
On 2007-09-26 at 9/26/2007 05:27:00 PM...
It's been an eventful week or so, and we're only at Wednesday.Yesterday I picked up my bike from ye olde bike shoppe on Kirkwood (that's not the name, but Sam should get a good laugh). The Cassette on the rear wheel was shit after sitting a couple years in the rain, and finally got to the point where it didn't even spin. The guy estimated the repair to be about $70 ($25 for new cassette, $20 labor, $15 for new chain (if necessary), $20 labor). I thought it was a little high, but I've had the bike for so long I didn't mind. I picked it up Tuesday, and it is great. Plus, it didn't need a new chain, so it only cost $35. That's a steal if you ask me. I'm very happy with this place.
I stayed at clusterfuck challenge until about 8:45pm then rode home on my newly repaired bike. When I got home, all the lights in the house were out (which is weird because in a house of 5 people, usually at least one person is home). I walked in and candles were lit on the kitchen table. I thought someone was trying to pull some sleazy seduction thing on somebody, but turns out it was because the power is out. Not surprising, considering we had a storm come through today. But wait, the neighbors' lights are on. Uh oh.
Turns out my roommate who's in charge of the bills didn't get a payment in on time, and today they came buy to shut us off. Talk about suckage. I still had about 50 assignments to grade by the next morning, so Brandon and I went over to Sam's and camped out in her living room to do homework. The power company was supposed to come by today and turn us back on, but I just tried pinging my router without any luck.
Oh well, at least I have a new-feeling bike to ride to campus on. I rode to the Union to get some breakfast (I'm afraid to open any of the refrigerators in our house right now), and when I used my key open my bike lock from the handlebars, the damn key broke right off. The teeth of the key was still in the lock, and I couldn't get it out. Instead of leaving it there, I took my bike to my shared Lindley Hall office for safe keeping.
Breakfast, last bit of grading, class, class.
After class, I returned to Lindley, handled a few business things concerning basketball tickets, and rode over to the same bike shop on Kirkwood. I asked if they could break the lock on my bike, and the said no problem. It was great! He just pulled out these huge pliers and cut it right off. Plus, I was already at the bike shop, so I bought a new lock right there ($15).
I had about an hour to kill, so I caught up on some reading for my Hendrix class, then went over to the RITS office. I told them I needed to stop working until at least January because I need more time for preparing for grad school. My boss was fine with it and understood completely, but I still have to give a 2 weeks notice (starting today). This extra time on Mondays and Wednesday will be great to have. Rather than not getting home until 7:30, I will be getting home at 2:30. It's the right move.
Ok, that covers everything. I am free of self-information.