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Geeze, it looks like spring there in BC. Here, we've got three inches of new, very wet snow down, and the sky is lead-gray.

Hey, where's your bike? All I can see is something very large and very blue......

Today Total-Mike and I picked up my new bike! The roads are semi clear and the weather semi warm so I took it out for a run I think that this one is going to be a lot of fun. I'd take a picture but now it's all muddy...
A Ducati GT1000! WOOT!

I re-edited one policy, wrote one leaflet on welfare benefits in 'plain English' according to the dictat of the 'Plain English Campaign' (Yerrrrrgh), set up a consultation with 'customers' to ask them how we should consult with them, and rescued one of the secretaries from a lunatic phone call (a Sir Galahad moment!).

I had a short lunch, liaised (note spelling) with one of my colleages about another policy, sent a politely barbed email to the borough solicitor, then spent half an hour trying to get the Word spellchecker (set for UK English) to recognise that 'liaise' is spelt 'l-i-a-i-s-e' and not 'l-i-a-s-e.' (Stupid machine.)

I then endured the rest of the afternoon playing around with formulae in an excel spreadsheet trying to force the required answers to appear in my favourite boxes.

Oh yes! I then rode the long way home on the Daytona.

This evening I cooked an unappetising meal (not one of my most creatively successful moments) and settled down to watch another couple of episodes of 'Lost' on DVD.

WTF did you do today?

( ) Thank god for the weekend.

jstark47 wrote:Geeze, it looks like spring there in BC. Here, we've got three inches of new, very wet snow down, and the sky is lead-gray.

Hey, where's your bike? All I can see is something very large and very blue......

It feels like Spring here.

If you look ver-r-r-r-y closely...you can see a teensy bit of my bike behind the big Venture.

It was such a nice afternoon that I rode my bike to Langley and back. It was my first ride on the freeway and going over the dreaded Port Mann bridge since I got back on my bike.

It didn't take long before my shoulders were aching. I need to re-learn to relax the arms and shoulders.

I met up with a person I know who runs a motorcycle school and I did some practicing in his parking lot.
If I had to take a skills test today I would have failed. )

I couldn't quite make the right hand u-turn.

When I rode home it was in rush hour. Since I have been off work I have not had to deal with rush hour.
What a bunch of boneheads out there.

Any wonder my shoulders and arms were aching by the time I was halfway home.

I'll go again tomorrow...practice, practice, practice.

blues2cruise wrote:I need to re-learn to relax the arms and shoulders.

Bingo. I watched your practice vids... didn't respond in that thread 'cause I wasn't sure. Shoulders and elbows might be contributing. I have that problem. When I can't do something I want to do on a bike, it's often because my shoulders are hunched and/or my elbows are locked.

I slept in. Then I went riding. The sun was shining all day.

I'm slowly building up some stamina....now if I could just relax the muscles and quit clenching my teeth.

i drank. and bowled. and hit on a girl 10 years older than me.

Ninja Geoff wrote: and hit on a girl 10 years older than me.

I don't see a problem with that.

Well, wasn't today, but yesterday worked at a local bar. My partner was hitting on one of two girls, and the other girl was hitting on me. Felt pretty darn good about myself, she was cute and all. Turns out she was just playing, why do women hit on other guys when they have a bf??? Ah well, boosted the ole ego.
Then helped that same partner/friend move later on.
Wrider