Hope for the best, expect the worst? in A small but passable life.

Two weeks and one day after I ordered the scooter it arrived. I uncrated it, assembled it, got rid of the crate and then found a problem. The running lights and turn signals don’t work. Everything else is fine. I got on the phone with the dealer and the only help they had was to tell me to start looking for loose wires. I took the front cowling off. Everything looked fine. And then last night when I started looking online for solutions I noticed something. The lights on the scooter, the two up front and the two on the back, weren’t on any of the models online. Apparently these were added, maybe for US market regulations? I have no idea. Now I need to figure out how to eliminate them. Mainly because of their ugliness. And the fact that the two on the handlebars have mismatched brackets. In the meantime I’ll just use old school (totally legal!) hand signals. And hope I don’t get run over. I won’t be riding at night anyway, except maybe here in the park.

For the month of February I spent $94.03 on food, $30.75 on transportation (Uber) and $50 on weed.

My Instacart orders have been at a consistent frequency of every fourteen to sixteen days. It wouldn’t be that frequent except for the purchase of two gallons of milk each time to provide my always normal consumption of one gallon per week. Most of the rest of the order is just stocking up to get past the $35 minimum limit for a free delivery.

I did get to use my new food scale to bust up a five pound package of ground beef into EXACTLY one pound portions for the freezer.

We had some days in the upper eighties, one day eighty-nine and now we’ll do a about four days back down in the sixties, maybe fifty-eight for tomorrow.

My brother and I are still waiting for a check in the mail. The last one.

I’m still not able to be on a waiting list for the vaccine. I’m still staying away from everybody.

I’ve had a cell phone since March 1998. And I’ve never dropped one. Until yesterday. My $40 ZTE smartphone now has a cracked face. Daughter says I should be able to swap out the SIM card with Mom’s phone, which I purchased with mine, and her phone would magically turn into my phone. I have no idea. I guess it’s worth a try? Or just keep mine now that it has character?

Anyway, the plan now is to stop spending money on crap I don’t really need. Even though this last $1400 government payout will pay for two thirds of the scooter, I didn’t really need a scooter.

But damn, it sure is fun to ride! Fast and nearly silent.