Fall break

This past week was fall break, and since I had off work from Monday onward, I was able to have my own mini-vacation.

I left school at 3:15 PM on Wednesday, and, after hitting warp speed, arrived home 2.5 hours later.

Then the mayhem began. I conducted extensive preemptive attacks on fortified sibling positions, to which attempts were made to foil or disperse the attacks, but failed.

After that, I had a huge home cooked meal of my mom's split-pea soup. The first real food I've had in a while. It was so good. Considering the only thing I get at school is some GMP crap or fast food at Taco Bell, home-cooked food is near-perfect food. Not that it isn't, Mom. ;-) Then my mom and little sister went off to AWANA, while I unpacked my stuff.

"Unpacked" is somewhat of a misnomer. It was more like "unpacked-the-warm-weather-clothes-and-then-washed-all-of-my-clothes-and-then-repacked-the-cold-weather-clothes." Yeah, that was closer to what happened. I got to bed around 12:30 AM that night. I slept until 12:30 PM the next day. Well, I woke up when my brothers did for school at 6:30 AM, then went directly back to bed.

My Thursday at home consisted of playing video games and ignoring the fact I have a paper due in a week. After wasting several hours in front of a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube-a TV screen), I went to repair my bicycle. My bicycle, which I had brought to school last year, had fallen into disrepair. Both tires were flat, and someone had bent both of the rims. There was rust on all of the frame joints, the seat had several tears and gashes in it, the tread was worn off of the tires, and the sprockets and chain needed some lubrication. $70 and five hours later, my bike actually looked more like a new bike than it did last year. I replaced both tires and inner tubes, straightened the rims, repainted the frame (after grinding and brushing all of the rust off), and bought a new seat for it. That night, I took my little sister out for ice cream by riding my "new" bike with her down to the store.

Friday, because of my brother's soccer game, I had a chance to test my bike out: I rode the 10.5 miles to my alma mater. Yes, there was a sidewalk or bike path the entire way there, so I wasn't on the road. Then I came home and slept another 12 hours.

Saturday consisted of much the same. Sleep, video games, oh, and I did wash my car and change the oil (making sure to tighten the oil pan drain bolt this time). Sunday, I went to church in the morning, followed closely by a huge Sunday lunch, which I drove back to school on (bringing my "new" bike back).

Aside the fact that I had no major accomplishments (well, besides my bike-I'm kind of proud of myself for that one), I had a most excellent fall break. But alas, today: back to the grind stone.