Well, I've had a sh
itty past week. It started when I went to check in for my neurologist appointment on Wednesday. Turns out, my "insurance was out of date". Because it's through the university, apparently I have to re-enroll every semester??? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif It's not like regular insurance where you just keep paying it and you'll have it. So I rescheduled the appointment, not wanting to pay out of pocket. I go to the insurance office on campus and they say I'm three days out of the "new enrollment window" and I can fill out forms to request coverage, but there's "no guarantee I'll be accepted". So I fill out the forms and haven't heard anything back. Going to go in and pester them again tomorrow. I've been out of Zoloft for close to a week because my script ran out Thursday. Didn't want to pay out of pocket for that.
Later on Wednesday, I was riding my motorcycle to class and my iphone fell out of my pocket. Before I got turned around and picked it up, I saw a bus run it over. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/pissed.gif.9f665f96bc89e98e708dabd4580bb591.gif so I had to get a new phone. On Thursday, I got a $40 parking ticket on my motorcycle, which I'm disputing because I parked in a perfectly legal spot on campus that met the criteria of motorcycle parking in a designated paved lot on hashed lines not adjacent to a handicapped parking spot. There were hashed lines in front of a building door in a back lot. I was 20 feet away from the door an was not blocking anyone from walking through it. On the citation, they claimed I was "obstructing the door". The pictures the parking police took prove otherwise. Anyways, just more hassle for me.
This weekend, I was backing my truck into the driveway and clipped the curb with my tire. There's about a 1/4 inch sphere cut out of the sidewall. It doesn't leak air, but now all it'll take is a pothole and I'll have a flat. On the way back from work on Monday, my transmission was slipping back and forth between 2nd and 3rd. My cousin's husband has three cores for my truck, so I'm going to rebuild one of those and swap it into my truck. Rebuild kit is going to be $300-$700 for what I'm planning to buy.
My truck was registered in my mom's name for insurance purposes when I had my Fiero. Now that she sold the Illinois house and is cancelling the bundled insurance, I have to register my truck in my name here in Iowa and bundle the insurance with my motorcycle and renter’s insurance. So I go in today to see what I have to do for that. While I'm at the DOT, I ask when I can schedule a time to take my motorcycle driving test. I had my permit, but not my full legal license. They said I could take it later that morning at 9:00 and it'll only take half an hour. I was supposed to pick my girlfriend up from class at 10, so I figured that's plenty of time because the DOT is 5 minutes away from campus. I was wearing my $250 Columbia jacket, which had my new phone, wallet (containing my credit card, two debit cards, Driver's license, Student ID, proof of insurance, $50 of gift cards, and $20 cash), and medications (Xanax and clonazepam) in the pockets. It had gotten hotter outside, so I took my jacket off and set it on the ground by the driving course. I went to start the test, and had to show that the brake lights and turn signals were functional. The guy asked me to honk the horn, and I said my horn was sitting at home because the electrical crimps were broken and I hadn’t gotten the chance to repair it. He said I couldn’t take the test if I didn’t have a working horn, which I think is bullsh
it. I said I could go grab my horn from home and hook it up real quick if it was absolutely necessary. He said he would give me 10 minutes. I live a half mile away from the DOT. Just double checked on google maps, and it says it’s a 3 minute drive. I was speeding a lot, so I know it didn’t take 5 minutes for me to drive to my house and back to grab the horn, and I quick rigged it up so it would honk.
When I got back to the test lot, the instructor and my jacket were both gone. I went into the building and let him know I was ready. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. I just figured he picked up my jacket when he walked inside because he had to walk directly past it to go in the building’s back door. After I passed my test, I asked if he moved my jacket inside when he went inside. He said “I remember seeing a jacket there, but I didn’t move it”. So, somebody else picked it up and took it all because I didn’t have a f
ucking horn. I filed a police report, cancelled my cards, and tried to locate my phone. Finally got to campus at 10:41 and my gf was pissed that I was late picking her up. Couldn’t get a location on my phone, so I just said f
uck it and activated my old droid so I can at least call and text. Ordered another iphone off
ebay. Basically took a $300 loss today because I left my stuff unattended for 5 minutes and there are sh
itty people out there. Learned my lesson.
I had $3,000 saved up for power cells (never decided to use caps, lithium, or both). I already got the steel and wood for my build. I’ve decided to spend that money on a Honda CBR1000rr. My current bike tops out at 120. I have a turbo I’m going to fab up for the CBR and I’ll have someone tune it. Then it’s as simple as swapping for a smaller back sprocket and I’ll be going well over 200. The CBR already goes 185+ stock. I put a bid in on one tonight, and I’ll know if I get it on Friday. I just don’t have enough time, money, or energy for audio right now.
#1 I want the fastest bike in central Iowa,
#2 I want a louder truck,
#3 I want to get the rat rod built to go fast in a straight line. Too many projects, and I can’t finish them all right now while going to school, working, and having a girlfriend (who needs plenty of attention) I’ll still be on the forum when I’m bored, but I won’t be finishing my build for at least a year.
/rant
