418 Days Until Warm Weather Comes

Actually, we're over half way through winter according to the calendar (this week will be two-thirds, in fact), but that's what it sometime feels like.
Winter sucks when it's cold.
I need to move to a part of the country where winter doesn't feel like winter.

I haven't posted in about six weeks, mainly because I hate how this stupid blog/google/who-ever-the-hell-actually-owns-and-runs-the-place keeps asking me to log in with a password that I can't remember.
You might think I'm joking, but I'm not because it wasn't like that until a few months ago.
I used to be able to enter my friggin' password once, and then I could set it to automatically remember me whenever I came back for more bloggy fun.
Not now, though.
So, since I got sick of having to make yet ANOTHER new password, I decided to hold off on posting until I some day decided I wasn't too sick of it.
Today is that day.

See how such a dumb and insignificant thing can be made into such a big deal when put into printed words?
See how it can take-up space?
I bet there are people working for the bad guys that make a career out of doing just that.
I should get a job writing stuff for some political movement.
Not a political bowel movement, though - I mean working for the good guys that want to abide by the Constitution of the United States of America.
Remember that thing?
The thing that, when followed, allows you the freedom to do whatever you want, as long as you're not bothering anybody else while doing it and not doing anything unlawful according to the Constitution of the United States of America.

The WR-250FP has been sitting here since the last ride on December 23, 2012 - nearly two months ago.
At least it's all cleaned and well-lubricated (I wouldn't have it any other way), and it's literally ready for the next ride, whenever that is.
Next month?
We'll have to wait and see.
I expect a period of having to allow the frozen ground to thaw and go from soggy mud to reasonably firm ground, something that usually takes two or three weeks of warm-enough weather.
In past years where we have a normal winter (and that means it gets cold enough long enough to freeze the ground), we have ground still in the process of going from frozen to soft-'n-gooey mud to normal in the first half of April.
Bummer just thinking about it.
But, with each day the sun sets a minute later than the last (it's up to 5:25pm, now), and as each day ticks off the calendar, we inch a bit close to decent weather.

See?
Another paragraph blabbering about stuff that is so ordinary, it should make your teeth bleed.
Imagine how many words could be covered with some sneaky bureaucratic type typing propaganda intended to intimidate you about paying your income tax, lest you end-up like Al Capone did for tax evasion.
All my life, I heard that Capone landed in jail from income tax evasion.
Being more specific, it was actually from not paying a tax on booze he brought in from Canada, which was a lawful tax.
Did you know this?
Funny how you don't read that so easily.

My shoulder is coming along pretty well, although I can still feel the effects of falling on it on the last ride nearly two months ago.
I have about 99% of my normal range of motion and some minor pain at the extremes of it, but it's miles better than it was a day after it happened.
By the time the first ride of the season comes, I believe I'll be able to ride the bike in a reasonable fashion, although I'll be cautious because it still feels like it's on the mend.
Maybe by July, it will be back to normal, eh?

Still going on motorcycle forums and message boards, as usual, and still reading a lot of stuff that I simply cannot agree with, as well as the usual questions and comments coming from somebody that makes it sound like they either started riding yesterday, or haven't learned anything after supposedly years of doing it.
Great.
Go ahead and wreck your bike.
It gives me something to read while winter passes.  :)

Today it's windy with a temperature of about 25-ish degrees.
I think I'll go out for a walk along part of the ol' Pachaug enduro loop for a bit of exercise and to just get out of the house.
I did my chores for the day of laundry and sewing a button back onto one of my work pants.
Actually, they're work-or-whatever-else pants.  ;)

-John