Congrats ElmanJo

Estelle Getty has nabbed you more points in the deathpool.

As threatened

Here are the photos I managed to take yesterday.

Don't mind my garage, its a work in progress..lol.

And just because she is so damned cute.  My dog

Two Days Status Post

Picking my Bike up.   Here's the synopsis.

Bright sunny day, on Friday, I find out that I can indeed get to the shop before they close down and pick up my bike.  I make arrangements with my friend Chris who has a bike himself to meet me there and be my rider companion on my way home while my wife follows us.   Enter the rain...correction, enter the monsoon.  I haven't seen rain that hard in a long time.  It let loose like the wrath of god himself.   Of course my friend got soaked on his way to meet us, I felt terrible, but he is a good guy and was fine with it.   It continued to lightly rain as we were leaving and we decided that it would be safer to bring the bike to his house and leave it over night in his garage.   So we did that, my first real riding experience on the streets were on a nasty highway section called NY-787 which is all merging lanes and ramps.  I don't like driving it in my Tundra let alone a bike, but it was our only option...so off we went.  Everything went fine, I had no issues other than once forgetting to cancel my signal lamp..no biggy.  We dropped the bike off and went home.  Got some dinner and watched Casino Royale when we got home.

We headed back over to Chris's house yesterday to get the bike and a first ride time.   We put on about 90miles during a few hours and it was for the most part awesome.  I have to get used to the wind that you get on a bike with no form of windshield.  But its all good at the end.   I am slowly getting used to the shift pattern, getting into second gear isn't allways as easy as it should be but I am getting used to it.  

The bike itself has a nice ride and a deep tone to it.  I'll torture everyone with photos of it later.

So here I sit.

I took today off once again in order to get some stuff done around the yard. But instead, here I sit. On the phone. WIth the IRS, wondering where my damn tax amendment rebate check is. I really could use the infusion of money right about now. I was supposed to have it on the 17th of this month. Which I see has passed. So here I am on the phone again.

Oddly enough, I have called the IRS at least 6 times in the last month about this and the person on the phone has always been personable, informative and agreeable. Which really takes the sting out of it, GOD damnit, I want to be irritated with someone about this and I can't even get that satisfaction..lol

Also I have to say, when they say the wait is between 15 and 20mins, they mean it. I am back on hold but they picked up at 17mins exactly. Impressive, but I guess its not so much to expect from a gov. agency, they are supposed to do things on time right..HA!....aweful hold music, same classical suite over and over again...drives one batty.

Wow, what do you know, its still being held up...wonderful. 4 more weeks without the money? Seems likely. Figures, its always when you really NEED it.

Edit:  I forgot to Wish Sicrik a Happy Birthday.

My Thursday...

Installed a garage door opening with the help of my father today.  I know, I know...but it was not your normal installation, there was some remodeling to the ceiling set up we had to do since there was not even near enough space between the door and the ceiling when the door was up.

When my wife got home we went..BIKE shopping.

And being the guy I am, I knew which one I wanted to look at before I even left the house.

So, I put a down payment on it before it got grabbed up.   I was told after I put the downpayment down that someone was supposed to come in later to see about buying it, so I lucked out in my timing.

Its a 2006 Shadow 750 spirit.  With the cool flame patterned tank.  I have to say, it was the most comfortable bike I have ever sat on, it is balanced perfect for someone of my height.  And with only 780miles on it, its in great condition.  I went over it like a dentis looking for marks or dings and what not and could not find anything.

So I have to contact my bank, get the paperwork done, get it insured and then hopefully I will be able to pick it up on either Saturday or Monday, probably Monday since I need to go with a someone to get it, my truck can't drive itself home.

I'm friggin psyched.