{"id":1970,"date":"2014-08-17T21:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2014-08-17T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:13:41","slug":"next-steps-toward-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Next Steps Toward Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started my <a title=\"Soul Searching\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1949\">soul searching<\/a>, I&#8217;ve made a few decisions and started making progress toward making those plans real.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a brief update.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure my next bike will be a <a title=\"Surly Long Haul Trucker\" href=\"http:\/\/surlybikes.com\/bikes\/long_haul_trucker_gray\">Surly Long Haul Trucker<\/a>. Most of my biking friends agree that it will do what I think it will do, and that it&#8217;s a good, well made machine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve definitely noticed that everyone I&#8217;ve met who owns one loves the bike.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to having one.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve talked to the folks at<a title=\"Topanga Creek Bicycles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topangacreekbicycles.com\/\"> Topanga Creek Bicycles<\/a> and set up a time to get sized and get the bike set up for me. Topanga Creek comes recommended by a friend, and I&#8217;m impressed by any store that requires an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topangacreekbicycles.com\/bike_fitting.php\">interview<\/a> before purchase.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also getting set to get back in the water via the <a title=\"Culver Pluncg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.culvercity.org\/Government\/PRCS\/Recreation\/Aquatics.aspx\">Culver Plunge<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read up on their policies and etiquette and that all sounds fine to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a new suit and goggles, and I&#8217;m ready to show up as soon as my doctor says I&#8217;m good to go.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of my doctor, I had an appointment earlier this week, and the current timeline is to be off crutches in mid-September.\u00a0 That&#8217;s almost a month sooner than I thought, primarily because I counted months instead of weeks and used the high end of the estimate.\u00a0 This is a more accurate assessment, and I&#8217;m delighted by it.\u00a0 Moving the date up has given me a nice prod to get these other plans moving a little faster.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the state of my plans today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I started my soul searching, I&#8217;ve made a few decisions and started making progress toward making those plans real.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a brief update. I&#8217;m pretty sure my next bike will be a Surly Long Haul Trucker. Most of my biking friends agree that it will do what I think it will do, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}