{"id":51,"date":"2007-05-04T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/blog\/none\/ahh-so-close"},"modified":"2007-05-04T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T20:18:00","slug":"ahh-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/ahh-so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahh, so close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well as of tonight, I&#8217;ll be absolutely 100% ready. The highway pegs work exactly how I wanted them to, I&#8217;ve got all my toiletries and foodstuffs received, purchased, and ready to be packed. The bike has been serviced, has new tires, is running at 110% of BMW perfection, and is chomping at the bit to get going. She knows. I can tell.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that remains&#8230; a few color-coded keychains to identify one bag from another for convenience, and about 10 more caribiners to make the packing job easier. I was thinking about picking up 4 of the  dual caribiner strap thingies from REI, but they are 10-12$ each and climbing grade&#8230; I can snap 3-4 caribiners together at $1\/ea for what I need and save myself 30$&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Truly, whoever invented the caribiner deserves every dollar they ever made for the invention.<\/p>\n<p>4 days, 12 hours&#8230; getting closer. A LOT closer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice little play picture of the bike taken up at Kirsten&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_jx2XBHUlHsk\/Rjup-uQGf7I\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/WeDN-3bZHCg\/s1600-h\/BeakShot+%281%29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_jx2XBHUlHsk\/Rjup-uQGf7I\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/WeDN-3bZHCg\/s320\/BeakShot+%281%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060825501313433522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Too bad there&#8217;s no real solid way to attach it! Ah, well&#8230;. maybe I&#8217;ll find a more solid one on the road somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Belg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well as of tonight, I&#8217;ll be absolutely 100% ready. The highway pegs work exactly how I wanted them to, I&#8217;ve got all my toiletries and foodstuffs received, purchased, and ready to be packed. The bike has been serviced, has new tires, is running at 110% of BMW perfection, and is chomping at the bit to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/ahh-so-close\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ahh, so close&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}