Christopher O'Brien

My Thanksgiving vacation draws to a close. It is 11PM on a Sunday night, and tomorrow morning I will haul my carcass back down to my desk and log in to work and get back to the grind. The days are once again depressingly short, and I must combat the darkness by soaking up as much sunlight as possible. It becomes difficult to see the sun at all -- wake up, walk downstairs into the home office, and stay there until the workday is done.

Spring and Summer happened. I'm still in shock that they've already gone by and Autumn has arrived.

I haven't been keeping record of my doings and thinkings, which now seems short-sighted. Let's use this post as a TODO, marking up the activites of warm weather that I need to write about!

The new seal kit and the replacement brake pistons arrived! I had spent some of last night cleaning the caliper as best I could.

I got a bit more work done on Uggo, this past Friday. It was more of a struggle than it really ought to be, getting myself moving and collected enough to work on anything. I think that I may be suffering from a bit of seasonal depression. Either that or the monumental, overwhelming dread of returning to work is getting to me. Whatever it is, I eventually conquered it enough to drag my tools out to the bike and get my hands dirty.

My holiday PTO is rapidly coming to an end. I did not get nearly as much work done on the VT500FT as I had intended. The weather has been rainy and cold, and the decreased sunlight exposure is definitely getting to me. I've made some good progress on a few important aspects though, so I will share those.