what am i up to?
well i lost my business of ten years with debts to pay, spent 7 weeks out of work awaiting a lecturing job which lasted 8 weeks before the company lost the contract and i lost my job. i then spent a further 6-weeks unemployed over christmas before getting work with anyone i know. landscaping, building foreman, groundworker. you name it-i'm doing it.
the rule in the UK is that if you're self-employed you can't get state benifit. and i didn't so those 13 weeks. do i need to say more! the lecturing was for a private company that sub contracted me out and they haven't paid me correctly so i've got a solicitor on the job. how much? don't ask!
so as you can imagine, when i tell you that the husey has been costing me quite a bit lately (7 practice days, 2 x DNF in 2 rides for the last two sundays, clutch set, two new tyres, chain, oil, filters and cleaner, lenses, helmet, pads, plastics, a sprocket, fork oils, shims, a new rear spring, plugs, plug cap, flow valves) i have been on my arse.
did manage austria skiing as my only break for a weekend since moab last year.
yep been hard, no longer infront of a computer and all of a sudden there are other things between me and my husey. i'm even thinking of jacking it in as far as the racing goes and just getting it street legal again to green lane locally and "get away from it all" at weekends instead.
i'm also trying to buy a house....
it'll come right. three rugby mates have found me all this work-where else could i get help like that?
i enjoyed getting the doc ready. i spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME on it when i should have been pro-active looking for work. but i'm glad i did it as a lasting and positive input into the site.
however i'm unlikey to be able to keep it up-nor i think am i willing too given that the bike i ride is now out of date. the site needs many things to change and of course it's becoming less personal and the justification for doing it has been that we help each other in a relatively tight group. right?
this is still the only place i wanna visit and now the suspension work is 3 parts done i'm not on ktmtalk hoovering up the info anymore/as much.
regards
Taffy
regards
Taffy
