{"id":1557,"date":"2011-04-20T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2011-04-20T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:56:13","slug":"old-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2011\/04\/20\/old-times\/","title":{"rendered":"old times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long conversation with R tonight, I tinkered with the XT a bit to clear my mind. On Monday I had gone over to the welding shop to add some <a href=\"http:\/\/aggregate.loftninjas.org\/2011\/04\/20\/xt225-turn-signals-and-happy-trails-su-rack\/\">permanent brackets for the turn signals<\/a>, and I also managed to find the intermittent electrical problem with one of the turn signals. Tonight I fixed the neutral sensor switch; a shorted wire from when I pulled the cover on that side to replace the gasket when L and I did the kickstarter work.<\/p>\n<p>This inspired me to go out for a ride. A friend from out of town was supposed to get a hold of me, but I never heard from him, so I checked foursquare and headed off to Metrix to see old friends from hacknight. At the end of the alley a car was crossing so I turned and braked on the hump, which slid the front wheel and I dropped the bike on my left ankle. It&#8217;s pretty sore right now. Not to be dissuaded, I got back up and continued on my mission. It was good to see old friends again.<\/p>\n<p>I made a comment to R tonight about how although I didn&#8217;t know the extent, I had been planning the trip home to take care of my father when we were getting ready for dinner the first weekend we hung out. Life is crazy.<\/p>\n<p>I joked with J that I&#8217;m probably better off having crushes than anything else. Which is interesting. The implication tends to be that one creates a fantasy about what someone is like and what life with them would be like early on, and then is disappointed. I wonder how true that is for other people, because I don&#8217;t think it is for me. Perhaps I&#8217;m just hopeful, and life kicks me in the shins.<\/p>\n<p>Well. Plenty to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long conversation with R tonight, I tinkered with the XT a bit to clear my mind. On Monday I had gone over to the welding shop to add some permanent brackets for the turn signals, and I also managed to find the intermittent electrical problem with one of the turn signals. Tonight I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}