I have a job!
I will be a member of the TAC staff, for as long as I want to, starting July 1st. Full benefits including health insurance! I need no longer tempt fate!
I will also be making a bit more money. This has put crazy ideas into my head. I have been surfing motorcycle dealership websites, reading reviews, and generally daydreaming...I feel disloyal to Suzi, but maybe I wouldn't have to sell her. Maybe I could have my cake and eat it too.
Maybe...I could have two motorcycles: a reliable one and a fast one.
Oh, I don't know. We'll see. There is a certain romance to depending on an old undependable bike, but that romance is beginning to wear off. I'm losing the Zen in the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Suzi runs so damn good, but she breaks so damn much. She was a superbike back in the day...but her needs are proportionate to her performance and she's 78,000 miles old. And that's old, for any motorcycle. Even for a monstrous roller-bearinged anvil of a motorcycle.
So, yeah. Those V-Strom 650's that dealers are having a hard time keeping in stock and which you can't find in the classifieds because people like them so much they aren't selling them - if I plunk down a grand and finance for 36 months that would be 190 a month. I might be able to handle that.
We'll see.
(it really stinks they only make them in blue and gray. All my gear is red.)
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1 comment:
Should I dare say congrats for your obtaining the job? What sort of job do you have working as a staff for TAC? If I ever do make it to the neighbourhood there, I will be sure to say hello.
(Still striving for the completion of my application- and putting more life under my belt, too.)
I also hope you continue to blog. I don't know why I think you might discontinue it (maybe it's with the transition of student to alumnus in mind), but ...yeah, keep bloggin'. I still read, even if I don't comment much.
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