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The best medicine

Besides a nice Scotch is to be in the shed and working on oned of the nails, er, bikes. So that is what I did for a bit earlier.

After the wee bout with prescribed meds that can turn yours truly into a wacko along with possible highish BP, working on the bikes seemed to be a better way to deal with things than Doctors doing their jiggery pokery voodoo on me with magic pills.

So armed with a hacksaw blade, Bodger commenced to removing the wee indexing dowels that are in the inner and outer timing covers.

As you may remember from a few posts back, I got myself another timing cover and when I went to dry fit it to the motor, wee indexing dowels, both in corresponding places, made it impossible to mount everything flush.

So the hacksaw blade came out and did it's job. The with a small file to dress things up, Bob's yer uncle and things are just peachy in Bodgers shed now.

This is just a dry fit to see if there's anything amiss and so far it seems to be OK.

More parts are needed of course and that'll be an ongoing thing like any good project. Just like any project, it's the hunt for stuff required that makes it all worthwhile.

A rough fortnight

It's been a rough couple of weeks in Bodger Land.

Due to insomnia for the past year or so, the Docs prescribed sleeping pills which seem to work for the most part.

But when stress is about, then the liitle pills don't seem to work at all. So the Docs prescribed taking another aid, Prozac to help with the stress and "anxiety".

Once that got into the system and was building up, all bets were off.

Two weeks ago I walked into the office and things were in right state. That for some reason got Bodger into a real mood which lasted for a few days until it died down.

Then last Monday the same thing happened due to another station closing down and all the people in there moving in with us like one big happy family. Even the Big Cheeses made it sound like it was a great idea.

All that happened was that it got me into a right state and a rage that lasted the whole day. The next day wasn't much better  Bodger getting into a loud argument with the Gaffer over something minor.

Seems that this Prozac can do different things to different people. In Bodgers case, mood swings and increases in irritatiblity and anger come about in a dramatic way.
The next day, at a routine physical, the usual procedures were done such as taking of pulse, weight, and blood pressure.
Talked with the Doc about some concerns and things were fine........except for.......the blood pressure reading were high. And it was taken three times just to make sure.

So now Bodger has to go on three consecutive days to have his BP taken in order to see if everything in OK.

Don't know if the Prozac had anything to do with it, but Prozac has been discontinued as no telling what it will do if I kept taking it and the high BP is a little worrying.

Hopefully things will be back to normal for Bodger.

BTW, a few of my mates at work were a little concerned about the episode with the Gaffer. I talked to him before seeing the Doc for the physical and apologized for what had happened. He was good about it and knew that wasn't how I normally am.

Also told three of the women, good friends, that if something was to ever happen, they had nothing to worry about at all.

Hopefully things will get back to normal for Bodger....and no more pysco pills for me, no matter how bad the stress is. Chocolate can and will and and all of lifes ills.

Oh, before I forget, Bodger now has a dongle for his laptop so can now be mobile and file reports from the filed such as the upcoming New Ulm Rally next month.