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Haggard
I’m worn out, completely drained, and have been consumed by my job. It’s a sad story and I’m a sad sight for sore eyes (or however the saying goes).
I worked seven days in a row, last week. I got Saturday off to do what I needed to do, but all I really accomplished was sleep. And sleep I did.
Today, I started ‘Day One’ of another seven days in a row.
I feel completely miserable, one of those ‘if I didn’t laugh, I’d cry’ moments.
To reward myself, I felt the need to order a Kindle from Amazon today. No, not the fancy Kindle Fire. Just the regular Kindle, the lowest bottom of the barrel Kindle. Why, you ask?
I actually feel the need to read. I want to read. I feel like my brain is dying from working and stupid shit. Let’s try to slow down the event of my brain decaying by reading. Let’s prevent my brain from becoming useless.
I was actually hooked on reading a book on Saturday (my one day off, if you had already forgotten), The Art of Racing In The Rain. It’s a fantastic book, and I’m not surprised that it was on NY Time’s best seller list for a while, and probably still is as I’m writing this.
But really, I’m just updating my blog to let my followers know that yes, I am alive and barely surviving, but I am craving more from life than just work.
A Little Lost
I’m guessing the choices I’ll make today will make my life better tomorrow.
Or at least that’s what I hope for.
Swift: Just Because
I’m so digging the drop on my car. It’s mild, but awesome enough for me since I don’t have to change my driving habits.
Swift: some adjustments
Been messing around with my suspension settings since it was installed on Saturday, but have not done as much as I would have liked to.
Tomas pointed out that Discount Tire mounted one of my tires ‘backwards’ so that the tread was completely wrong, and that would explain why I would sometimes hydroplane. Discount Tire is definitely making me work too hard to correct this issue though. But if anyone was interested, I can clear the lift no problem on my suspension.
I played around with my tire pressures today and changed some settings on my front struts since the rear requires dropping the whole suspension, again.
I realized I was way under pressured on my tires, I usually run 37psi, but I was checking the tires today, I found them in the range of 30 to 33psi. So I’m all back to 37psi at all four corners and I tightened up the front struts to 50% stiff. Turns out that while the handling was awesome for my 10 block drive, and turning in was quicker and more responsive, it made my car creak too much and it was jolting over bumps. So back down to 25% stiff in the fronts.
That now means 25% stiff in front and 25% stiff in the rear.
Hopefully fixing the tire pressure means reduction of bouncing that I experienced at initial install, but we’ll see after my commute to/from work today.
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