Sh*t Keeps Breaking!

Sorry for the short picture-less post, but the latest in my list of things that has broken since I left home is now my computer. I could sit at work and write for an hour a day, but that's really not what these computers are for. So I'll just jot down the list of things that have broken since I left Corvallis. Hopefully, I'll be back up with a slew of posts as soon as my computer gets fixed:

• Front bike tire (flat on mile 19 of the Portland Marathon)
• Car (desastrous strike by Bambi in Montana)
• GPS plug in. (just stopped charging when I needed it most - in Charlottesville, a town with no straight roads)
• Ipod to radio plug in (actually never worked that well to begin with)
• Plastic shower chair (that one was pretty funny. I transferred into it and the legs spread like a dog on ice)
• Voltage transformer (blew a fuse first time it got plugged in at the Pema Thang in Dharamsala. Second fuse has been solid)
• Wheelchair handle (and my right elbow after I fell six steps!)
• Chinese heater (!!@#%%%&%$$%ing piece of crap!)
• Left calf (burned on that !!@#%%%&%$$%ing piece of crap!)
• Portable sound board (luckily it was just the power cord, not the board)
• Cell phone wall adapter (smelled something electrical burning...)
• Lost bearing on left wheel (replaced by a joint US-India operation - Thanks Dan, John and Ron!)
• Guitar pickup (fixed now, but one day it just all fell apart)
• Front wheel on chair (snapped off on a bumpy ride between McLeod Ganj and Bhagsu - road has since been asphalted)
• Front wheel on chair (had it welded; worked for two weeks; broke off on a similarly rough road)
• Transformer US to India adapter (fried ten minutes before our first open mic - luckily very easy to replace in Dsala)
• Computer (still hoping it's just the power cord)

So it hasn't been the cleanest of trips so far. I think it's my fault for claiming that my trip to Turkey last June was a 'perfect trip'. Never again. Those travel gods have VERY long memories!