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Possessing Wheels

October 12, 2003

As you may have guessed from the crappy cameraphone pics, I am now back among the wheeled…

Woohoo!

As you may also have surmised from the quantity of cameraphone pics, I’m fairly pleased with my new transportation.

I’m at a loss to decide what color to call this—even absent the strange things my phonecam does to colors, it’s rather difficult to pin down.  Gold with a hint of green, perhaps…

It took two bloody weeks to get the thing the 1,000 miles here… Continental drift might have been a faster transport method… lol… But it’s here, it’s mine, and I’ve now got a better way of getting around then trying to schedule time borrowing my oldest’s ride…

A distinct improvement.



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