WAITING AND WAITING AND WAITING

I have now been impatiently waiting here or thereabouts 37 weeks for approximately 1,300 parts to arrive via various shipping companies to no avail. Except one little box that arrived today. And maybe a big one tomorrow. AND STILL AND STILL AND STILL I have NO brakes. Under my ownership the GENERAL has probably idled more than it has EVER been ridden in it's life. Myself only contributing one harrowing block with none braking power.

When above mentioned parts arrive I'm going to dump them all into a giant pile and swim through a la Scrooge McDuck. (I would also like to congratulate myself now for being the first person ever in the multiverse to use the McDuck vault as an analogy of joy for the pleasure of owning excessive quantities of an item. Thank you.)

Then I'm going to assemble this bike like it is a giant Lego set and I am participating in an involuntary Lego set building race to the death or be BLUED UP!