Reasons to be cheerful!

[jumbojak]

I get to go to the gym today.

[billy rubin]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is much more accessible.

i had s roommatevwho read finnegans wake, and actually understtod it.

or so he said.

[billy rubin]

dammit

almost broke my stinking leg. sprained it seriosly instead.

i couldnt find the grumble thread to complain about how much it hurts, so im posting in the cheerful thread instead because it hurts but isnt broken

i was hooking up the motorcycle trailer to the farm truck to load the bikes onto it

wont have time in two weeks, itll be blow and go then

and tbe 200 pound tongue weight shifted in my grip and pushed me over, applying all its force sideways to my knee

.the one i already messed up falling down on my daughters 250 ninja.

luckily i was able to fall almost as fast as the trailer frame bent my knee sideways, so i lay on the ground saying to myself

self, did you just accomplish the stupidest thing you have done yet this year?

and lo, it came to pass that i gotteth away with it, as my knee is now half again its normal size, and bends 10 degrees more than it did in the wrong directions

but indded appears not to be broken.

i am not irish, but i seem to have their luck.

so i am limping about like chester in gunsmoke, and only crying out in pain when im pretty sure nobody is there to hear me, and after all i dont have to have high functioning legs to race a motorcycle

so i am cheerful, in the end

but shit my knee hurts anyway

[Ecurb Noselrub]

I  am cheerful that you survived, billy rubin, and that you were not injured worse.

[Dark Lightning]

Yike! Get well soon!

[Icarus]

You did not say which leg Billy.....The shifter side or the brake side?   Heres hoping that you will recover quickly and completely.

[billy rubin]

yes. i messed upmy right knee, the one id already messed up once.

its the shifter side, on the right. theres no foot brake--i use a lever on the right handlebar to run a disc brake on the back. no front brake at all.

thank heavens i use a handheld starter off the crankshaft. if i had to kickstart this thing i dont think i could do it. but shifting should be okay-- ive converted it to GP style, so all i have to do is push the gearbox lever down to upshift. three shifts and its over.

it was a super stupid thing to do, but im super stupid a lot of the time

[billy rubin]

i am cheerful because the 100 percent trump owned trump organization has been indicted on pretty clear tax fraud charges.

i dont care a bit about trump personally, but i am cheering on anything that occupies his attention prior to the 2022 elections, and tends to reduce his attraction to middle minded voters.

[Icarus]

Middle minded voters?  You misspelled that word Billy.  I should have been muddle minded voters. 

The wonder of the ages is that there are so many actual human beings who truly believe that Trump is the precursor of the second coming.

[Magdalena]

i am cheerful because the 100 percent trump owned trump organization has been indicted on pretty clear tax fraud charges.

i dont care a bit about trump personally, but i am cheering on anything that occupies his attention prior to the 2022 elections, and tends to reduce his attraction to middle minded voters.

[Dark Lightning]

The very simple view of that man turns my stomach, tbh. I thought that he was a lump of excrement in the '90s, and my pov has yet to change. I'm not a vengeful person, but I'd tap dance on his tombstone if I ever even bothered to visit the site. Maybe just piss on it, since I can't dance for shit.

[Recusant]

A fair reason to be cheerful then--he's not the president anymore.

[Dark Lightning]

It was certainly a sense of relief. We're not out of the woods yet, but I seriously doubt he'll make any sort of comeback.

[Tom62]

It was certainly a sense of relief. We're not out of the woods yet, but I seriously doubt he'll make any sort of comeback.

I wish that is true, but I expect him to run again in 2024.

[Magdalena]

It was certainly a sense of relief. We're not out of the woods yet, but I seriously doubt he'll make any sort of comeback.

I wish that is true, but I expect him to run again in 2024.

I don't know...
I think I'll make Trump my prison pen-pal very soon.