15-XI-1999.
Bought a bicycle at Walmart, plus a small one for Lena, total 144,13$. The idea being that it doesn't make much sense to drive just six blocks to work, and that I'm itching without a bike.
Though, in retrospect, it didn't turn out that way. The hills are a killer. With my mild heart condition, I can't really pedal against any slope, even when shifting all the way down.
At least I slapped my forehead and had a good laugh about it. In the ancient year 1978, when I returned from studies, granma bought me a bicycle and I took to reading its manual. Can't hurt, as no matter how strongly I can feel as if I knew everything about bicycles that I may need to, perhaps it contains some useful info I didn't know I might need. And in the text I found „do not lubricate the bicycle with edible oil“. Wow. What level of idiots were the intended audience for this? We do have, among bikers, a decent percentage of senile peasants or semiliterate fools, but that it would cross anyone's mind to lubricate it with edible oil... unimaginable.
And now, 20 years later, I read the manual again. Not in bad english (the bike was, of course, chinese), it's all clear and look here, it says „do not lubricate the bicycle with edible oil“. Well we were ahead of time back then, same warning as it is for the Amers.
Go is going out with Larry. I got the little digital Seiko camera from Zero and there's a bunch of photos of them around his motorbike. I guess it's her desire to ride a bike that put them together, not Greg's love for social projects and experimentation. We did gather that we, as a family, were his project and that he wanted to learn something from whatever happened with us, but of course we couldn't prove it, and no need to. The hints are everywhere.
Nina took the camera to school, so this is all hers.
Our first regular internet connection here started working yesterday. The downside is that it's a dial-up, at the whopping 54KBaud, the upside is that it's a local call, the modem is probably two blocks away, and we have flat rate for both local calls and net. The latter being free the first month, then 20$ per.
Mentions: Gorana Sredljević (Go), Greg Reubenthal, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Larry Artois, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Zero Distance (Zero), in serbian