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the half-green bike

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2012.06.24

Kenny's new bike is coming along nicely: the first coat of final paint is now half done, and I've replaced the white tires with black ones.

Sadly I managed to spray-paint the chain, which in a small child's bike is looped through the frame. Not too clever of me, but I reckon it'll still work.

It's been a moderate amount of work, but it's coming along nicely.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl