Building my trike and getting a ticket

Mostly its been nice not driving my car. I feel invigorated riding my bike and I have a sense of freedom that I don't have behind the wheel. The temperature has been dropping and last night, riding back from my parents place to the Bart station at 10pm my ears felt like they had frozen off. I started riding with my thermals and a heavier jacket which for the most part keeps me warm while riding. The only thing I really don't like is the extreme temperature changes from being outside to going inside.

I thought I would be saving money by not driving my car. As soon as I started this experiment the cost of gas tanked! As you can see, I got a parking ticket for parking in front of my house before the street cleaners came. $53.00 buh-bye!
I need to seriously consider selling my car and canceling my insurance because this experiment is starting to cost me money. Money for Bart. Money for Zipcar. Money for insurance...




In addition to the parking tickets,spiders have been making their home...


Aside from the cold, the parking tickets and the spiders, I finally put together my 2007 Burningman project. I had purchased a tricycle that I was going to mount a sound-system to. I balked when the theme was the Green Man and I couldn't figure out a way to have an environmentally friendly mobile set-up. I had been meaning to put together the tricycle anyhow but thought I didn't have the right tools to do it. Today I really examined everything and realized that not only do I have everything I need, but that it would be fairly simple to put together.


And after bruising my hand, and straining my back and bending the fenders I finally got it together. After I went on a test ride I realized I had to flip the platform over, as I installed it upside down.
The finished product is pretty cool and im anxious to explore different ideas of what I can do with it...