Hey folks, it's been almost a year now since I've been around. It wasn't really a good year. Certainly, had it been, I would have been around more. By way of explanation, many of you know that I've dealt with severe depression all of my life. The fact that I started restoring a bike a few years back was very much a sign that I was pulling out of the the worst bout I'd yet had.
Around Thanksgiving of last year, I took a deep slide. It wasn't so much that I was horribly depressed as it was that I had absolutely positively posolutely no motivation whatsoever. I put my bike in the garage and left it there. It still sits exactly where I left it; I haven't even taken the bag off of it. I walked past it hundreds of times this summer; however, I just could not care about even charging the battery to put it on the road. At the same time, it was hard for me to be reminded of this fact, and so, I skipped out on you guys. I pretty much skipped out on everything except church.
That said, things are picking up for me. A good family, good friends a good doctor and of course God have brought me to a place where I think I may be gunning to get back to work, as in employment. I plan to stay on this path and pull out of a period of darkness that is now going on 10 years. I'm sorry I haven't been around, but things are looking up now.
P.S. There is no way in h*ll I plan to catch up on what I missed at Southside Dive Bar. ;-)
