A couple of Ridgid tools

 "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.  The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." - Marcus Aurelius

 

Masi Gran Corsa - out of cold storage

 "All cruelty springs from weakness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I pulled the old bike down off the mezzanine recently, and ordered a bunch of parts (box, bottom right).  It sat there with flat tires and a thick layer of dust until I had a couple of days to get around to refurbishing it.

Yet another power outage...

 "There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purpose." - Epictetus

Below:  A Ponderosa pine tree fell across a street in Coeur d'Alene, ID as a result of the wind storm on January 13, 2021

The blend door problem

 "We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them." - Epictetus

Re-Cycling

"Don't just say you have read books.  Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.  Books are the training weights of the mind.  They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." - Epictetus

Cycling has been on my mind a lot recently.  I mostly blame the shipmate who sent that old photo, below:

Doesn't taste like chicken

 "Take full account of what excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not." - Marcus Aurelius

 

Road Music Again

 "No man is happy who does not think himself so." - Marcus Aurelius

Microwave Oven and Computer - Good as New

 "Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is true.  They cannot be guided by your views, only their own so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided." - Epictetus

 

This Year's Christmas

 "Fire tests gold.  Suffering tests men." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happy New Year

 "Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look." - Marcus Aurelius