Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run and having to put gas in the car….the parking brake on the car hung up again this morning but just a little bit so I think I’ll just leave it alone for a few days and see how it works…not too sore this morning so I think I’ll dot he bike ride without ibuprofen and see how that feels….I do like the new handgrips that I put on it the other day…they keep my wrists straighter and they don’t cramp as much so that is cool….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with maybe having lunch with T later….but, I will get the bike ride in here in a minute…not until I have more coffee….more later…..

Well…..now I’m a little confused about the car…went out to work on it this morning; to replace the anti rattle spring and then work on the hand brake…I had it all worked out in my head to use the scientific method of controlling for variables to find out where the problem was…but after I put the spring back on and pulled the brake on to see where it was sticking, it wasn’t on either side…and now I’ve used it a few more times and it seems to be fixed….now, I’m not sure if it was the penetrating oil that I put on the linkages or that I greased the pins when I was putting the new pads on…both of those things are problem areas that I read about on Miata net but I guess it really doesn’t matter as long as it works….feels good to know that I can still fix the car when I need to….

Well….sore as heck from using a bunch of new muscles working on the car yesterday…my back is tight and painful so I guess there will be ibuprofen this morning…and I do need to work on it some more today to try to sort out why the parking brake is sticking…..didn’t do a whole lot else yesterday but I think I did enough with being busy into the afternoon…the brakes on the car are better with having useful pads on the back….they were down to the thickness of two sheets of paper….other than the car…not much to do today….I am going to clean some today but that is about it….more later….

Well….it has been a pretty busy morning with the normal stuff but then putting new brakes on the back of the car…I thought it was going to be a hard job but it was really quite easy once I got into it…just a new type of caliper that I had to understand…even though it was easy, I did do a lot of damage to my hands…stuck a screwdriver into my left hand getting the anti rattle springs off and then bled all over everything for the rest of the job…and I have a big scrape on my right wrist that I have no clue how I got….and I lost one of those tiny springs on the passengers side that I did find after I had everything put back together so that will be a job  for another day….the parking brake is still sticking a little so I may have to work on that another time…it does release if I yank on it a couple of times so I don’t think it’s any big deal….and greasing the slider pins may help that….at least it’s done…not sure if the brakes work any better but they should after I bed them in some…..the old ones were really, really thin….

Well…it was kind of a busy day yesterday…at least in the morning….I think I may have found the sticking in the parking brake in the car but we’ll see today….have been up since way too early today and I am still trying to figure out what the heck that is about…..My brother called me yesterday for the first time in a couple of years and that was kind of weird….no talk of substance but weird anyway…..I also had another flat on the rear tire on the bike…but it was flat before I went out so I didn’t have to walk back…and I replaced the handgrips, too since the old ones had holes worn in them and they looked ugly….not going to do too much today….have to wait for the rain to stop to get on the bike and I’m not too motivated anyway…more later….