Goofin' Off

Vacations are rad.

It's fun to go places, but sometimes it's fun not to go places. And sometimes it's even more fun just goofing off at home during vacations - going out to dinner every night, riding bikes, kids running around the neighborhood, sleepovers, building new bikes, eating bike cobbler, working in the garden, sleeping in late, having cake for breakfast, blah, blah, blah.

And how come when you have to go into work every day and sit behind a desk all day in a windowless studio, it's hard to do stuff when you get home at the end of the day? You feel lazy and tired.

But when you're just goofing off during the day, you can go for a 4 hour ride and still feel good enough to go chop down some eucalyptus up on the hill afterwards and then go out to dinner with 3 wild kids and then go to the hardware store and then stay up till midnight watching dumb stuff on tv and still feel good the next day and start doing it all over again.

The only thing I'm not doing a lot of is drinking. I think that's it. Working makes me drink which makes me lazy and tired. I better start drinking so I can feel normal again.
Yesterday I did the maiden voyage on the new bike. We put some road wheels on so I could go for a longer ride.
But an hour into it, up near the steam trains, my left crank came off.
And I couldn't get it back on.
So I called Morgan and he tried to explain to me how to put it back on. But I didn't get it.
I tried to push it in like he said, but I thought he meant push it all the way in and then start winding with the tool. And it didn't work. I tried a lot. And I didn't want to break it.
He called me back to check on me. He said he'd come bring the tool and fix it for me.

While waiting, a bunch of cars stopped to ask me for directions. I must have looked like the local tourist guide in my little pink outfit. One lady in a bmw said to me "... you look like you need some help but i'm going to ask you for help instead, how do i get to blah, blah, blah ..."

So Morgan arrived, fixed the broken thing and off I went to goof off some more on our vacation.
Today's agenda: more goofing and messing around.