Received the projected cost of the repairs for my bike, it will be ready for pickup on Thursday. I won't be able to afford anything nice for it for a while unless I come across a substantial financial windfall. On the upside, everything, aside from the repairs, that I needed to make the bike street legal in Germany again was relatively cheap and is shipping later today. I am pretty much limited to eating at other people's houses for the rest of the month though. Unless I just want to drink water and eat bread. Whole new meaning to my bike is my life, for me at least.