My year of bike maintenance

I've done or had done more to my bike in the last year than in the previous five years. New chains last november. Several flats, some taken into the shop, some teaching me to be better at patching or changing my own tubes. A blowout, requiring new tires (which had to be ordered from the manufacturer). My air shock stopped holding air, requiring inflating every other day, then every day, then before every ride and finally deflating if I sat on it. Today I disassembled that (much easier than I'd expected given that it's a kinda major load bearing structural piece) changed a couple O rings (which had to be ordered from the manufacturer) (one had completely broken and when I opened the shock it popped out and wriggled around like an uncomfortable worm) and put it back together and now I can ride my bike again for the first time in a couple weeks.

With luck, now that I've changed out just about everything, it'll hold up for a while.

The Last Major Appliance Is IN

The washer-dryer is in. Now I have the luxury of not needing a laundromat (unless it breaks), not having to haul laundry down and up stairs because it is on the third floor with my bedrooms where my dirty laundry tends to be, and not needing to move laundry from the washer to the dryer because it is an all-in-one unit.

And, stealing inspiration of the obvious from mzrowan, my new icon for house-related posts is a picture of my house.