Is It Progress? I Think So.

Another next day update? I actually have a decent amount to say today even though it's only been 24 hours. Starting off, when I wrote last night's post I was in a slight state of intoxication. If it read a bit awkwardly, that's why, and I'm not ashamed to say so.

Continuing on, my wheels came today! It felt like christmas almost. I get told I have a box for me upstairs and there it is, sitting there, waiting for me. I was tempted to look around for a tag that said "From Santa" in my parents handwriting. What's more is that when I opened up the box, they were just as I imagined, it was all so perfect. If it feels this sweet everytime a get a present from the internet I'm going to have to start ordering things more often.

A quick aside. I was reading a book today about quests. More accurately it was about the theory and literary history of quests as it relates to modern gaming quests. It was all quite fascinating really and it got me thinking. Does this whole super fixie building project qualify as a quest? I mean it sounds silly to call anything nowadays a "quest" but after I considered it for a moment I realized that what qualifies as a quest is relative. Sure, some dude talkin on is cell phone on a park bench may not consider the act of building a dinky hipster bike to be a quest but the starving college student doing a track stand at the stop light might. I suppose it doesn't matter if it's a quest or not I just thought it was interesting.

My frame shipped today as I was told and it's nice to finally expect it. Hopefully in a few more days I will have at least a vague resemblence of a bike sitting under guard by that beast of a dog I own (seriously). By my calculations, the crankset should be the last "expensive" piece I buy, but I'm still researching and I may be able to get a fairly good deal on it.