It's the new year, and 1 week before that, I've already started withdrawing karma to make this year good. As a result of karmic flux, I have already broken:
1. My keyboard. Good thing I have 3 spares!
2. My monitor. The pincushion is out of alignment. Permanently.
3. My video-out on my computer's video editing card. It's a goner.
4. My left side of my cycling earbuds. Some water got into it when I was washing it.
5. My DVD player. It doesn't play DVDs anymore. But CDs and VCDs are fine. Go figure.
6. My kitchen fan. Just decided to stop turning for no reason.
7. My kitchen tap. Apparently I turned it off 'too tight'.
8. My rear-derailleur cable. Snapped in two while I was still riding home in Bt Hills. Here's a pic of the broken cable and the Stang in the shop getting a new cable.
9. A power supply on a 2nd-hand organ I was testing blew (I think.)
10. On Xmas day, I get a bloody flat. Lucky I have my handy pump and instant patches (TM).
So ... why so much karmic flux?
I'm feeling remarkably hopeful.
I am willing it so.
Something odd happened on New Year's Eve. I was trying to make it to 7000 kilometers on my odometer. I reached home after about 2 hours out but turned out, I was 6 km short. So I resolved to ride on till I hit 7k and retire for the year.
It was the last ride of the year. I took a loop up Clementi and West Coast, round Kent Ridge, and stopped when I hit exactly 7000km.
Turns out, my tripmeter for the night was 70.0, and I had hit 7000km at exactly 11:17pm on the clock.
70, 7000, 11:17 for 2007.
Go me!
In other news, my novel is going along quite well. I'm now into Chapter 5 of what is going to be some 30 to 40 chapters. So, still some way to go, but it's going to get done. I have shifted the typewriter to beside my bed, and rigged the writing light there to boot. So it's never far from my mind. And now that I don't have the internet there's not much to do late at night other than to read and write anyway.
On new year's day, I cleaned out my desks, vacuumed and mopped the floor, ironed my shirts and pants, and organised my socks (here's a sock army, plus some lonely sock orphans).
And gave my bike a new wash.
Now, to infinity, and beyond! And may my book be released to bookstores before Christmas '07!
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