One of the kids busted a 46-inch HD TV over the weekend. No excuses, just pure and absolute bad kid behavior. The remote he threw–ostensibly at his sister out of sheer anger over a channel debate–busted the screen. By the time I got to the TV, it was clear that yes, he had roasted it.
This gave us all pause.
Though I wasn’t in the mood to look up legal precedents, I’m pretty sure Washington State frowns on both child abuse and manslaughter, limiting our available response to talking. And taking all the money he’d saved. And banning him from all video games and most forms of fun until further notice–and of course from TV, which wasn’t hard to do, given that the living room TV now displayed a serious of unappealing vertical lines where a picture used to be.
We aren’t a big TV-watching family. In fact, we’d bought the recently destroyed TV for $200 from the previous owners of our new house. It was the biggest TV we’d ever owned. In fact, it was about twice as big as the biggest TV we’d ever owned. It was nice. We’d watched the Muppet Movie on it. Good times.
Our lives still didn’t revolve around it or anything, but seeing it broken definitely got our attention–particularly once the time of death had been officially called and the cracks were visible. My wife and I were quick to start comparison shopping and scouring the Internet for replacement options. “Not a big TV family” or not, this was the living room TV.
But then we got to thinking. Somehow the last thing we wanted to do was show the kids that things as expensive as TVs–the nicest one we’d had–were just instantly replaceable. There are no magic elves that replace things you’ve destroyed thanks to your own stupidity. Put bluntly, when you screw up to that degree, you go without for a while.
Work on Danzig has been relentless at this point. Lots of refining. The key now is shock clearances and making the most of the space. Things are packed pretty tight around the shock and upper pivot, which is a good thing, but I don’t want to run into any clearance issues once we go to production on the prototypes.
Here’s the spacing situation on the rear shock that I’m obsessed with currently.
I’m all about the upper rocker and shock orientation right now.
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