Where's he at? I would love you meet you.

...and my day...

Spent my 4th day in PT. Finally seeing a touch of results. I can actually sleep now!!

I was talking to one of our docs on the way out of the hospital. He just recovered from a head injury and tree fall (3 weeks in a wheelchair). We both decided it was pretty sad to whine about what we where going through. Some people are in this pain and worse everyday, with no hopes of getting better. He realized it when he was talking to a patient in a wheelchair, permanently. Nice wake up call to realize how lucky we really are.

Naperville


cracked the screen on my cell....

Woke up, got outa bed. Dragged a comb (uselessly) across my head. Went downstairs and had a cup, looking up saw that I was late. Grabbed my coat, grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat......
Just got up, turned on the lights in the L.R./kitchen area. Opened the blinds, saw that the sky is cloudy and red in the east/morning. Not good. Going to rain again today. Watching the cat wrestle her tail into submission for a grooming. Always good for a chuckle. Checked the weather channel and my two (embedded in my Ff browser) online weather sources. All predicting rain for today. Yeehaw. Soon I will shower/shave and whip out and get the Saturday paper while taking out the garbage and recyclables.

M.C The Burner

Sorry Peap, a Beatles rip-off I'm afraid. Listening to music, is my excuse.

I hate you...

Ahhh, I'm wounded. Your put down is like a stake thru my heart...... NOT! LOL. Bwahahahahaha.

t_b perhaps "Ahhh, I'm wounded. Your put down is like a stake thru my heart...... NOT! ..." is not unlike Merlin of old when he noted, "Just a dream for some, a nightmare for others."

Got out of bed, and that is an accomplishment these days.

Talking about bikes I decided today am gonna buy the new Pulsar '08 as soon as It is released. Gotta sell my Pulsar '07 first but It won't hurt having two babies like these.

I still like those bikes

nice. I've always thought naked bikes were so much cooler. Thinking about taking the Dremel to my fairings, in fact...

worked till 0100 last night, err this morning. My relief was late yet again.

Got home, worked on the KLR till about 0500. Figured out I am pretty much a radiator fan switch and a CDI unit away from riding it. ARGH!!!

went to bed about 0600. Woken at 1000 by the wife- "flat" tire (ok, actually really low, and she seems to have been running on it for quite some time). Inflated it, and back to bed.

Up misc times throughout the day owing to noise (kid, wife, dogs, thunder). Grrrrrrrrrr.....

Finally up for good at 1800, and in to work at 1900. Rode the bike to work, in a storm. Not so bad, but getting sick of the wet all the time. Looks like it's going to rain for the duration, too- through midweek. Not sure when I'll get this friggin' transmission installed.

I bought my Fatboy in 03. Never had any problems with it. Probably the best bike ive ever owned!

The 03 is very clean looking-nice lines!

Saturday - Got home from work at 10:00 am, ate breakfast (or is it dinner when you eat after work...) watched tv for about an hour. Went to bed at noon, got up at 6:30 pm, ate dinner while watching tv with the wife then went back to work at 9:00pm which is where I am posting this from at 5:46 am.

Overnights suck!

Grrrrr I hate changing the lights on my jeep. Its a single huge fucking bulb. and to take it off i have to unscrew the 3 hex screws that hold on the chrome trim then the 4 screws that hold the bulb in place. It takes like 5mins a bulb.

Woke up and now off to the market!

PM sent, B.

Came home from the store and now going out with the family to pick up a new TV.

We slept until well after 3pm trying to catch up from the last few days. Laid in bed watching a really bad zombie movie, then went our separate ways for the night. I'm debating if I have enough energy to do anything now that I'm home or not.

Shawn of the Dead?

EDIT: nope, "Undead" I see. I'll have to check it out, being I'm a conniseur of bad zombie and vampire flicks.

my day:

worked from 2000 last night to 0800 this morning. Fuck me, I gotta find another project.....

got home about 0900. Noticed the wife's right front tire was low again. Tripped on the bike to get a can of fix a flat, came home, installed it, topped up the air in the tire, went for a ride. Noticed, of course, the expected oout of balance condition one gets when it's on a large steering axle till it heats up and flows round the tire. She'll have to deal with that for a week or so.

so of course, being my wife is going to obsess about any thing- I then spent two hours trying to explain to her that no, she really doesn't need tires, but if she wants them, we might as well go ahead and do the lift since she's going to need shocks soon anyway and has been wanting to lift the jeep. Showed her the budge-boost front-rear coil swap my friend did on an identical vehicle. "But will it work on mine?" (Dear, it's the exact.same.vehicle. YES) "But how can you be sure?" (Because it's the exact.same.vehicle... and we've done it) "But how can you be sure?" (This is my area of expertise honey, please trust me).

: sigh : we must love each other deep down.. to put up with each other.

So then that leads to ordering tires. If we order them online how will we mount them? (you'll help me honey-- remember, I've mounted the last 4 sets of tires on my Jeep and Blazer, both bikes, and several friend's tires? All I'll need you to do is hand me the tools as I ask for 'em, and keep the soap bottle topped-up. Everything else is technique and muscle, which I'll be providing.) But how will we balance them? (I'll balance them, like I did all the others) But how, you don't have the tools? (I don't need tools-- I use internal, active balancing media. I even used them in my bike tires, and if they didn't work I'd probably be dead now seeing as how there's only two tires). But how do they work? (Go to www.innovativebalancing.com honey, it explains it) $10 per tire to balance a tire? (No, honey-- this is why I use Airsoft beads. The only difference is that I can't install them through the valvecore-- which also means that they can't jam in the valvecore and cause deflation). But what physical principle does this work on? (I'm not sure, honey. Can you explain to me the specifis of electron flow and Kirchoff's Voltage Law? No? But you use electricity all the time, right? All I know is that it works.. again, this is my area, trust me)

Finally convinced her to go with the budget boost, as I have a set of tires and wheels already assembled in the backyard from helping a friend overhaul his TJ before he shipped out to Guam. (Wife's jeep has a bent rear rim, so might as well replace it while we're at it). This'll cost her less than the tires would have, and she'll probably get a couple years out of these tires, easily. Meanwhile, we address her Jeep's need for tires, rims, shocks, and her want of a suspension lift. All for cheaper than the price of a new set of treads.

Got about 4 hours of sleep, what with her watching her race, the dogs playing, the kid playing, and my schedule being completely FUBAR. Up at 1800, SSS, and grabbed the Band of Brothers series onthe way out the door to keep me up tonight. In theory.

I've been seeing a LOT of bad zombie and vampire flicks lately! You should check most of them out, we've been enjoying them greatly.

All I've done since I was online last is soak in a vanilla-scented bubble bath for three hours with my last bottle of good red wine, some candles, and a good book. I'm OK with that.

Thats a great movie!!!

Probably gonna be disassembling a TV in the most violent way possible

Went to the bank, made my car payment, did some shopping for the apartment, got meat out of the freezer for dinner, stopped at the farm stand for veggies, did a load of laundry, and I've got lunch on the stove.

All this and it's about three hours before I normally roll out of bed.

Going to try the chiro in a couple hours. Something has to work!!!

Atta Boy!!!

I hear ya! My internal oblique is messed up both at the top of the pelvis where it connects and along the spine. The chiro just made it worse. So far I've missed 4 full days of work because of it. All due to the laziness of my boss with him leaving early and not helping me shift some bags of earth that weighed at least 175 lbs. Between the two of us we could barely lift them onto my truck and then I had to unload them by myself lifting, twisting, keeping my feet in the same place while using the intercostals in my back to lift that little extra bit while rotated to move the bags from my truck bed to an unstable trailer. I thought I had ruputured a disc.

Day 1 of vacation...

Not to much. Day off! I slept in till 8!!!

Well, the chiro gave me a couple hours of relief in the neck, but the arm still kills. Now that I'm at work...back to the same shit.

I swear I am cutting off the arm!!!

On a great note...My girls played their hearts out and we won the first round of our league touney!!!

Thats Great to hear Bull!

Way to go Father Bullski! Your girls will be playing on the U.S.A. national women's softball team in no time. <Softball=fastball here.>

Getting set for painting-someone else to do it, and the sanding. Did get all the equipment ready. Now to finish off some paper work.

Was treated to breakfast in bed for the first time in a while, then a back rub, then got my hair brushed. *sigh* After that we just laid around watching TV for a while. We're about to meet at "our" bar for dinner and drinks, then home where I'm told I'm getting another massage. Who am I to complain?

Home from work early. Back is acting up. Crap.

Pulled weeds all day But at least there was a breeze

new shoes i ordered finally came , now i can wear my leg brace and walk again , attitude is better.

Thats good to hear Pappy!

nice Pappy....glad you're up walking around...gonna be running any 5k's soon?

I am learning to walk again , its a bitch but i will do it.

Good for you pappy. Best wishes to you, and much success!

When you say you will...I know you will.

Spent 1 1/2 hours in PT. Maybe finally a bit of progress...and I mean a bit.

Ive never liked PT. Just something about it makes me feel down.

Guess they don't call it Pain and Torture for nothing.

Tightened up screws on 13 chairs and a few tables-Allen screws can be very different in size at times.

PT was not all that great for me .... my broken arm-never realized how far they could push and twist my hands, (confessed to everything) but, the ice packs were nice-ouch .... and the therapist was a great young gal-easy to fall in love at these times with one's nurse.

so.freakin'.close

I am short a choke plunger assembly, an igniter, a radiator fan switch, and a few nuts and bolts before I can ride it.

ARRRRGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!