It’s March and there is work to do. Not just at work but in other places too. I guess I need that or I’d be bored. It’s nice to have stuff to do, if not I’d be on the porch with a shotgun aiming at squirrels.

There is all this work at work and then more work outside of work and apparently some of my colleagues are in the same boat. Except that my colleagues definition of doing work outside of work is hiring a contractor to do the work (how many more times can I write “work”) lifting the phone to talk to the contractor tires them out. Unlike my comrades, I do all the manual labor, learned all that from my father, he was a contractor for a million years (exaggerated for effect). I guess it’s the way I was brought up, “here take this wrench and wrench something, go go go!” My father never actually said that, when he was fixing the car it was more like “pass me the 11/16″ socket and the .0025 inch feeler gauge”. I knew what the socket was but unfamiliar with the feeler gauge. Contrary to my belief, a feeler gauge had nothing to do with feelings, the things you find out at 10 years of age. What was my point in all this?

Ah yes, all this work I have to do. I guess in the end it’s stuff that I have to do and it should be done. There have been a few things that I have put off due to bad weather; in the end I can no longer blame it on the rain. I believe that was an eighties song. So back to this whole work thing.
Other than house stuff, one of the things I need to work on is the restoration of my Yamaha YX600 (that’s a motorcycle, for those who aren’t in the know). It has been neglected and I feel bad because when I look at how she once was and what she is now, well, it brings tears to my eyes ~sniff. I plan to fix her up so that she starts and rides well and then do some aesthetic work, change the look a little but not too much. It should be fun and a pain in the rear from past experience on other projects, nonetheless it should be fun. You can see below how the Yamaha looked many years ago, she was a beauty. In case anyone was wondering, the seat was custom made, the round headlight replaced the stock square one and the fairing was added. The stock air-box was removed and washable air filters were added instead. I couldn’t take a present photo to show the world b/c people would call me a murderer. Actually motorcyclists would call me a murderer for letting it get to the state that it’s in. Well, time to get cracking and push myself to do it, that’s all.

And now…

it’s time to get back to all this work @ work. Fun.

Yamaha YX600 and Triumph S3

Yamaha YX600

Rear quarter shot of Yamaha YX600 and the Triumph S3

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