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Waking up to the smell of burning plastic…
As the lazier member of this particular family unit I usually manage an extra hour of uninterrupted sleep while the spousal unit enjoys an hour of peace and quiet with her first cuppa every morning....
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Progress of a (slow) sort
Well I finally got the engine for the S65 all back together. Actually, that’s not strictly accurate. More precisely I got the engine for the S65 (incorporating various parts cannibalized off the C65...
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I Got The I Wanna New Motorsickle Blues
I got the I wannaNew motorsickle blues,I wish that all I hadTo do was choose.But nothin’s quite so easyWith the Missus actin’ nastyAnd sayin’ if you do yer gonna lose.Oh lawd, I got the I wannaNew...
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The space analogy may not be overly apt, but it did take me about as much time to get this little engine running as it took the US to put a man on the moon, so I’ll let it stand.After a year spent on...
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Darksiders
In one of the Facebook groups I follow a member posed this question: “Anyone tried a car tire on the rear of their bike...lots of info on you tube...just wondering?”Well that question started a flame...
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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
Although I wish it was so I can’t claim credit for this quotation; I saw it on a tee-shirt and have appropriated it for this post (and to be used as a future motto). I imagine the “left unsupervised”...
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“Ya i have the seats to took them off so I wouldn't loose them on their way to there new home in my attic for restore”Okay, I know I’m a pedant when it comes to basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation...
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It takes a special kind of idiot…
“Just put it in your checked bag.”“You sure?”“It’ll be fine.”Just came across this story of a passenger flying out of Toronto to the US who thought having this in his checked baggage would be okay....
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The day the rally came to town
We live next to a 10 kilometer stretch of dirt laughingly called California Road. Clearly it’s nowhere near California, nor is it anywhere near being what one would consider to be a road. It is sort of...
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We are doomed.
A while ago I saw this image on line. My first thought was, “Hey, that guy’s wearing my shop jeans!”. Those would be the ones the missus won’t allow me to wear into town, and only grudgingly allows me...
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Where in the world …. ?
One of the reasons, among many, that I have been silent for a while is that the frau and I just spent 2 weeks in Germany. We escaped miserable spring weather here in Ontario and arrived in Frankfurt to...
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Curiosities
No trip is complete without at least a few curiosities.Germany is, overall, pretty progressive when it comes to disabled access. Of course it is an old country and retrofitting for wheelchair access is...
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Syringa vulgaris
If the title hasn’t already sent you to Wikipedia, syringa vulgaris is the taxonomic name for the common lilac, which grows in abundance in these parts and throughout much of Europe and the US as well....
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Getting motivated … or not.
Day after day we continue to be deluged with near-record rainfall. May was about 3 times normal accumulations, June came in at about double normal, and we’ve already had a normal July’s worth of rain...
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La Machine
La Machine is a street theatre company from France known for it’s larger-than-life mythical mechanical creatures. (http://www.lamachine.fr/en/)Never having heard of them before I was intrigued when I...
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Tinfoil and vinegar
I decided it was finally time to get down to doing some work on the Kawasaki. A while back I had cleaned and rebuilt the carbs. (One of the POs – don’t know which – ‘forgot’ to replace a few small...
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MosaïCanada
As part of the Canada 150 celebrations the National Capital Region engaged Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal to create an exhibit reflecting Canada’s history and diversity. The end result is a...
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Any job worth doing is worth doing twice. (II)
Unfortunately I seem to be making a practice of this.After no activity for a few months I am now making some progress on getting the little Kawasaki roadworthy, and one of the main jobs was to replace...
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There is no solution…
… so simple that the bureaucrats can’t screw it up.This is a Google Maps satellite image of an intersection near our house.The through road, coming from the bottom and exiting top left, is posted at 80...
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Possibilities…
We are currently enjoying one of the nicest stretches of weather since last summer (and I’m referring to 2016 here). It’s been a week of temperatures in the high 20s with no rain. Perfect weather for...
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