Use What You Have, Do What You Can.

"It's all just nuts and bolts..."     Here I sit in the chilly (but bearable) shop today with a winter storm breathing down my neck...making some slow and steady progress; just got the injection pump mounted on the OM617. I thought maybe I'd write a little about why  the hell I'm doing this, and how  I got to this point, so here goes. 70s military engine go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr      A few years ago I had bought a shitty trailer someone made with a Jeep axle. I was towing motorcycles and random garbage around behind my lifted 2002 Subaru Forester (that's a story for another time) and a thought came to me: "What I really need is a truck."     My first thought was to buy something newer and 'reliable', but the problem was I hate  all modern trucks. Here in the US, they're all $70k tank-sized affronts to god with seating for 7 and beds barely big enough for a cooler. And anyone I'd known with an F-150, Silverado, or even Tundra had some story...

The world is changing, and so must I.      I've spent the last few decades, like many of us, sucked into the black hole of social media garbage. It's done a number on me, specifically tricking me to perform for likes, views, comments, etc.      The last few years I've been slowly moving away from that, choosing things that feel nicer for my brain, like reading and actually writing, instead of scrolling endlessly, or coming up with enough hashtags to make this tasteful photo of my motorcycle more popular with people who actually don't give a shit about me. #roadtrip #ducati #justitalianbikethings #beardman #beachlife #livingmybestlife #gougemyeyesout      I've mused about regressing to Web 1.0 style things with my friends for a while now, especially since all the sites we gather on now have turned into garbage nuclear wastelands of thoughtless nonsense. Today I'd like to make that musing something real. Perhaps this will, like many projects...