The Big Slow Down

Seventy-three days.

That's what I've got to finish this thing.  The trouble is, I am in the big slow down while I wait on supplies and tools.  For the most part it's tools.  The other night I solved my freewheel problem, but it's all on paper until I can get a lathe to make it.  The good news is that I should have one tonight.  My niece Katie is engaged to a guy named Chad, and Chad has a lathe I can borrow.
Of course, there is something odd about borrowing a machinists lathe since they weigh a lot and are typically stationary, but it is still going down.  I will no doubt have to come up with tooling and wire up an outlet for it, but it's the direction I have to go.
Also, I have a friend who does back yard sand casting, and he has tentatively agreed to make some parts for me.  This is a big turning point.

I remember explaining this to a couple of attractive women one night, not long ago.

We were having drinks and talking about generalities, and one of them (who I will call Doc) said, "That's great that you can just think of an idea and then make it."
"Yeah, it is pretty great," I said, looking up through the smoke filled room and flashing my hero's smile.
"And you're so good-looking," Kitty said next to me while she rubbed my arm.
I turned my smile on her, catching, as I turned the flash of passion in her eyes.
"It's not as easy as all that, though," I said, "the easy part is the idea.  That's the sex.  The rest of it, the parts where you turn an idea into a product: that's the relationship.  Nobody thinks about the relationship until after they have the sex.  Then all of a sudden they have to realize it's going to take work and commitment to make it work."
"You're just being modest," Doc said.
"Isn't he cute," said Kitty?
I may have blushed.

Ninjas may have attacked the bar at this point, in some nefarious attempt to stop me and destroy the city and I probably fought them off in a Jack Burton style.

I will leave that for a different blog.  The point is, I am knee deep in the relationship part.  And this is going to take hard work, long nights, and a lot of commitment.
I'm thinking of Blue Collar Man by Styx.    Maybe a montage of me working and that plays in the background blending in to Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.