i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
12:38 AM: please stand by
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i finally broke down and got another battery and charger for eliot. i was down to 26 minutes fully charged (though usually not even that much in reality). i was really hoping to put it off until after burning man, but the charger wire finally got so frayed that you had to hold it at just the right angle and pressure for it to charge at all and it wouldn't have made it another day. meh. there's $150 i'd prefer not to have to have paid.
more mechanical difficulties: changing the bike seat almost brought me to tears. it made sense until i tried to put it all back together and then it seemed like i needed a longer something, or maybe a shorter something, or maybe only one wire where there were two. and the bike baskets were a complete mystery. i tried googling instructions for mounting them, but without success. fortunately sven has innate 3d sense, and is gleefully tinkering in the garage even as i type, ocassionally laughing maniacally in triumph.