Should I stay or should I go

Or maybe in keeping with the rock n roll song theme "One thing leads to another" is a good one today. And will probably be stuck in my head all day, too now.

In fact, I'm gonna Spotify that sucker right now.

Hold please.

I've not made it back to the garage since Friday. Miss her. Things coming up this week, or sometimes just not feeling it. I still have a short list of things to pick up before major progress here and there, so there's that. Mostly I'm getting and staying with the 'get it back together and ride it' mentality. And the funny things is, while I thought it might cause me to feel like I'm compromising or giving up on certain things a little bit, it's instead making me motivated to get the bike back together.

Once again I'm feeling positive about it's future. I can always go back and finish up this part of replace that one, and likely will. If this bike turns out to actually be a reliable and safe mode of transportation, and I have but a few reasons why that wouldn't be so, then I can, for instance, change the rear brake shoes when they start to go out or rub. Right now, they're fine. They work, don't rub, don't have any issues. So I'm gonna start leaving things that are fine as they are and move to things that actually aren't fine as they are.

Maybe another life lesson in there. Probably. It's how this blog seems to always turn; like a bad NASCAR race - I'm always just turning left. Perhaps I'm just staying true to my personally-assigned moniker of "Captain Tangent".

[ Now I feel like I should play a Captain & Tennille song, but I definitely don't want one of those stuck in my head. ]

Anyway, the old 'when life gives you lemons make lemonade' saying is a good one. I prefer to add some nice tequila to that mix, but that's probably not the point. This bike was a motorcycle at one point, and a not-so-bad one at that. Dated sure, but old doesn't mean dead as I can attest, and so now, all I wanna do is ride. Life. Roads. All of it. Time to get things back together, where they belong, and hit the road. See it. Be it. Do it.

You get the point. It's been a sermon here on and off for weeks, and likely longer. I'm ready to get on with it. So I'm doing my best to get the other half ready to do the same. She's still in pieces a bit here and there, but the box of things to remove and throw out is spilling over, and the box of things fixed and replaced is getting to be just about empty.

Almost time for us to hit the road together, doll.

And time for another Spotify tune...

"Nobody gonna take my girl - I'm gonna keep her to the end.
Nobody gonna have my girl - she stays close on every bend.
Ooh she's a killing machine - she's got everything.

I love her, I need her. I see her. Yeah she turns me on.
Alright hold tight - I'm a highway star."