Unfinished Businesses

Dumb things I havent finished in 2025

Bosozoku Bike

I am building a Bososoku style moped, or rather over the past few years have collected pieces and assembled something, making halting marginal progress once in a while. This year I attached the unobtainable windscreen to the unobtainable oversized fairing in an hours long process of drilling and lining up holes. 

Currently the rest of the fairing has to be attached to the bike by my friend who has experience in doing incredibly fucked up things to bikes and mopeds so I trust em to do it. Once that ordeal is done I will have to disassemble the entire bike to modify the frame, then figure out a seat, and then paint and reassemble. I suppose if I am singular about this bike I can get it finished by summer. 

I love the Bosozoku style bike, I am trying to build this as "correctly" as I can given that the canvas is a Slovanian moped. I am trying to half ass as few things as possible. Motivation on this bike waxes and wanes but even just looking at it I get motivated.

Eternal ekranoplan videogame project

I have been making an Ekranoplan game on and off for maybe nearly a decade, or worse is I have been thinking about how cool one would be to make while making no commitment to doing one. 

The main problem is that the vehicle central to the game is a ground effects aircraft, and so I am trying to build a handling model that is exicting to play but has rules based on some very fucked up physics, and it's possible that I'm overthinking it. I keep getting close but I give up before building any other game systems. 

I don't know why this game has been stuck in my head for so long or why I want to build it, I wanted to build it ever since starting my last long term project. The scope is too great and I feel like there's too many restrictions on what the game should and shouldn't be by now. I told myself if I give up on it this time I can't revisit it (which is also a stupid restriction) 

Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers

I must admit this is the most stressful game I have played and also something I have spent 5+ years slogging through even though I have 12 hours into the game. I load it up, play a very dense mission filled with timers, towers to defend, and lots of rising escalation. Then I close the Nintendo 3DS for another year, not making any progress on the main questline yet again. I have a full blog post about this game I mean to write sometime. Sometimes I worry I will never finish this game because I can't sit down day after day and finish it. Right now my 3DS is closed, on standby, the blue light pulsing, as I stopped in the middle of a mission I am dreading to play through.

But I like the game, I like the characters and the writing and the setting. It's incredibly charming and incredibly stressful. Every year when I pick it up I end up taking one screenshot of dialog 

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Who has time to read? Not me apparently. I have been in the middle of reading this all year and every time I look at my pile of books this is the one at the top that I am the most eager to read and I do find it really good, but who has time to read? In between the rolling endless disasters and the need to produce something to feel like you're worth anything I can't sit down for several hours to read. It's really unhealthy. 

This Vespa Ciao

yes I am working on ANOTHER bike. This one came to me last year in the form of a birthday gift of several boxes and frames for Vespa Ciao mopeds. There were enough parts to make a singluar functional Vespa Ciao and I spent a year building up the bike. I replaced the tubes in the tires, built a whole new engine, and assembled it onto one of the frames that I have. After I finished wiring it up I had to test it, and so I poured gas in the tank and discovered that the gas tank - which is a structual part of the frame - has holes in it. I was very frustrated I had made it this far only to have to restart, so this bike has sat in the corner of my garage for a month while I get over this defeat and begin to build up the SECOND vespa ciao frame i have, which hopefully does not have holes in the gas tank. I don't like the color of the new one as much. My biggest mistake was putting the body panels on before seeing if it ran - I was getting too ahead of myself and too confident. 

Building the bike required learning everything about the Vespa Ciao including the engine design, what particular cylinder to get, what particular exhaust pipe to get, what particular carburator to get (since they are specific ONLY to the Vespa Ciao) and various other parts. I had to detangle the wiring system, alongside a bunch of fixes for things I am not particularly optimistic about. 

Once I get over myself I will have to clean the gas tank in the other frame, and then move parts one by one from the old frame to the new frame, and then try again.