Slang Editorial :: Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holla'

Saturday, May 30, 2009
All Back Together Again

My bike has been fixed, at the very relatively minor cost of $29, which, while adding to the evergrowing "Idiot Penalities" column, is a hell of a lot better than I was imagining it might be. Additionally, on the definite 'good/bad simu' tip is that the dude also tightened my shit up and explained how cleaning everything down will do me wonders (via the miracles of Simple Green); however, he also warned me that the battered and dirty state of my bike has me due for a full tune-up/clean down in the imminent future. At $125 I'm not entirely prepared to cover this cost, but worse was his added thoughts that I will probably end up needing a new drive cassette (anywhere from $60-$120) due to the excessive wear placed on my steed.

I have taken his tidings to heart and spent part of the afternoon cleaning everything down with Simple Green, but it's definitely also a testament to the incredible sloppiness with which I seem destined to live my life. Amusingly enough, Mark J-J made a comment to me today while playing basketball that,

"Ben, probably this holds true for a lot of different aspects of your life, but it seems like somehow you are always using up a lot more energy and working a lot harder than you need to on whatever it is that you seem to be doing; even moving your feet while playing defense this seems to be true."

And he is right, and I don't know (yet) how else to live.

Labels: basketball, BEAUMONT, biking, exercise, fucktactics

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 5/30/2009 09:09:00 PM 2 comments

2 Comments:

KJ said...: I follow your blog now! Is that creepy? Probably.

Anyway, just wanted to say: I took piano lessons once a week for ten years. And every week my piano teacher would watch with dismay the convoluted ways I chose to play things. "Why are you using that fingering, instead of just 1-2-3-4-5?" she'd ask, baffled, and then the inevitable follow up question: "Why do you go out of your way to make things as complicated as possible? Why not just go the obvious and easy way?" I still hear her voice in my head asking that question on a regular basis, and I still don't have a good answer for her.

-Katie ("Em Dash"); 6/01/2009 12:15:00 PM
Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything said...: Holla, girlfriend. Holla.

[Also, it seems amazing to me that the "captcha" I must type to add this comment is the word "shush".]; 6/01/2009 10:02:00 PM