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Wot the hecc, let's do a #FursuitFriday. I may not have a fluff I like very much any more but I'm allowed, dammit.
(To clarify, I still adore Kelsey and want the best for them, it's just that their only incarnation is very old and threatening to fall apart. They deserve a better physical form but I'm too poor and/or lazy to provide one. I guess I'm just a bad guardian for a cartoon character to be lumbered with.)
@taco, bird/cat :verified420: @Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:
Where did you last see it, dearie?
Before and after.
(Getting the rental house next door ready to be sold, involving a new fence to reestablish boundaries between our garden and its, and removing the apple tree that fell into the rental house's garden a few years ago. After it fell, I cut off all the branches I could get through with a hand-saw, but it clearly still had a well-connected root system and started sprouting new branches and growing apples before we could get anyone in to take the trunk away, so it came to be something of a feature. But sadly it Just Won't Do if the place is to sell with a decent amount of garden, so unfortunately it had to be cut up and fed through the shredder this weekend. 🙁)
I have broken my ATGATT streak. It was only 300 metres, to put the bike away in the garage, but I couldn't be bothered putting the full set of gear on yet again, and the speed and duration, and therefore the risk, were pretty minimal, so I didn't. So I did this instead. I passed a few pedestrians on the way along the road to the garage and I'm sure I must've got a few double-takes. 😝
(It was kinda worrying though, don't think I'll do that again!)
I managed to get hold of a replacement battery for the bike today, phew. Was going to order from MDS (my usual go-to place for UPS batteries) but found the local Halfords had it £5 cheaper and available to walk in and collect rather than waiting a day or two (or paying another £5 for next-day). So that's now sitting on charge. Turns out they no longer sell these batteries un-activated with a bottle of sulphuric acid because the acid's now classified as a poison. So it turns out the label on the box says the battery was activated last month, which could be up to 8 weeks ago, so I'm giving it a good charge first, and installing it tomorrow.
I had the steering head bearings replaced today (which involves taking the whole front of the bike apart apparently so I'm glad I didn't try to do that myself), and while I haven't tried the steering with the front wheel off the ground I did give it a ride around and… I think it's better? I think it's more subconscious, but I think I can detect myself riding a bit more confidently, which would be because the handlebars are no longer trying to pull to the centre when they are *nearly* centred, which is what the problem with the bearings would have been causing.
So, battery swap tomorrow morning, MOT test tomorrow afternoon, trip to Wales soon after that…?
