Me, earlier this evening, about 5 PM:

La la la la!  Okay, it’s raining and I’m getting completely soaked as I bicycle along, but it’s all good!  I’m having fun, almost to the bus stop, on my way to the open mic night!  La la la la!!

SCRRRUNCHEKEE THUNK!  KLAAAAK!!!

(Bicycle simply stops, almost throwing me)

What the hell?  Holy cow!  Would you look at that?  The gear shifter thingie down at the rear wheel… It’s definitely NOT supposed to look like that.  Maybe I can bend it back…

:::Joko fumbles with gear shifting thingamajig, freeing up chain, but eventually giving up, realizing this is beyond something he can fix by hand:::

Well, I’m almost to the bus stop anyways.  I’ll just roll the bike there, jump off at the stop where Harvy’s Bike Repair is, and keep going to the open mic…

Which is exactly what I did… See the video below.

So, tomorrow, my bike goes “under the wrench” so to speak.  It’s hard to precisely describe the part of the frame that is bent.  It’s the part that holds the gear shifter thingiemajigee in place.  Really bad design that this piece could be intergral to the frame and so easily bent.  If, tomorrow, during the bicycle surgery, while trying to bend this piece back, there is a chance it sould simply break off completely.  As this is PART of the frame, and the frame is pretty much the heart of the bicycle itself, if this little metal piece breaks, my bike is totaled.  Not something that can be fixed.

The bike repair shop made me sign a quickly handwritten waiver that if they break the frame in the process of the repair, that’s simply too bad.  They aren’t responsible.

*Gulp*  I’m so nervous! My trusty steed is going into a procedure from which she may not emerge alive!  That would so suck!  Oh, Internet Friends, please send out your positive thoughts to the universe that this does not happen!

At the open mic, I performed live the song I did the other night at home and included in my last blog.  It’s rare I can do a whole song live without a single fuck up… this was one such occasion!  I nailed it.

After the performance, one of the other musicians came up to me and said: “My buddy wanted to give you this,” and handed me the card below.

HA!! THIS WAS AWESOME!  A Get Out of Hell Free card!  This may come in handy some day!  I assumed the card was a bit of sarcastic irony, like the Doctor Sparkles song I had just finished singing.  Ummm… I turned the card over and looked at the other side.

Oh.  “REJECT JESUS and burn in HELL”  Psalms 9:17  (wait a minute, don’t the Psalms pre-date Jesus?)

Doesn’t matter.  I got the card now.  I can get of Hell free, and I don’t even have to try and roll doubles.