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Two wheelin’ (the easy way)
That would be “wrenching” as in “motorcycle maintenance.” I found oil under my motorcycle the other day. With older bikes (and non-Japanese bikes in general), oil on the garage floor is pretty much standard … but it’s not something you want to see underneath a Honda Goldwing. There wasn’t any doubt in my mind it […]
The year, that would be. Out with a bang. Shot right through the brain. This Christmas we added a compact 9mm pistol to our arsenal, so Polly and I took it and its big brother (a .357 revolver) to an indoor range this morning. I wanted to get the feel of the new pistol, and […]
Photoblogging last weekend’s ride with my son Gregory in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona, 500 hard but beautiful miles on two new BMWs: Itinerary, day one (Saturday): Las Vegas NV to Laughlin NV (via US 93) Laughlin NV to Kingman AZ Kingman AZ to Oatman AZ (via Rt 66) Oatman AZ to Kingman AZ Kingman […]
I’ve wanted to ride BMW’s new six-cylinder flagship touring bike ever since it came out. Last weekend I had my chance: two days and over 500 miles on a 2011 K 1600 GTL. I’d driven up to Las Vegas to spend Thanksgiving with my son Gregory in Las Vegas. Greg, as he has done before, […]
We try to keep the world from intruding on our happy lives, but sometimes all defenses fail. I don’t mean to make light of what happened at UC Davis, and god knows the photo itself is horrifying, but this photoshop somehow makes the latest pepper spraying incident all the more Orwellian: What a world we […]
I haven’t been keeping up with the news, what with company and road trips and the standard family competition for the TV at night, so yesterday, after our company left and things were quiet again, I called up Mediaite. Foolish me. The first ten entries all had to do with Herman Cain. Like a prude […]
Today, for the first time in 14 years, the doctor at the base clinic stood me up. My appointment was at 0850; at 0920 I decided I had more important things to do. Clearly wires had gotten crossed; they’ve never kept me waiting more than 5 minutes before. I told the airman at the desk […]
Yesterday I bought new tires for my car at Costco and decided to wait while they mounted them. How hard could it be to kill an hour and a half in Costco? Pretty hard, it turned out. All that stuff! All of a sudden I found myself pushing one of those giant grocery carts and […]