motorcycle

Well, that's my guess anyway. I made it back to my friend's house after work today, and took a look at the bike. I will post pictures later, but apparently the radiator hose was touching one of the exhaust headers, which combined withseveral other factors set it up for catastrophic failure. I have no idea if the hoses have ever been changed, and the bike is 22 years old, so that alone can be devastating. The fact that I pretty much walked the bike 2.5 miles in standing traffic couldn't have helped. Anyway, the end result is a hole in the hose approximately the width of a pencil.

So despite true awfulness, yesterday was a pretty good day. It started out fairly normal, but really changed when I was out on my motorcycle. I didn't think about it being UT's first game, and that the freeways would be parking lots. Well, about 15 miles into my ride it became stopped traffic, and I was walking the bike more than anything. I started to get worried after about 20 minutes of this, as I saw the temp gauge getting higher and higher.

I didn't run Ulduar tonight, and I haven't logged in in a week now. And I am ok with that. Instead, I continued to pour over the wiring diagrams on my motorcycle, and figured out what one of the previous owners did to the electrical system. I was worried that the missing wires and cut and spliced wires were going to be a difficult situation to replace. Luckily though, it appears that the turn signal relay had gone bad, or something, and that was removed, and the rear brake light switch was shorted in there.

Last night I unplugged. Instead of running ulduar with my guild, I decided not to even log into WoW. I had intended to spend a while on a video conference call with some friends discussing technology, but through a weird sequence of events, we ended up canceling the call. Instead I checked on my seedlings, which are unfortunately looking like they might not make it. Some of the plants that I had started had reached the top of the container that they were in, so I could no longer leave them inside.

On Tuesday afternoon, I got the phone call that my cables had come in to Woods Fun Center, and that I could pick them up at any time. Now I had ordered these cables, and was waiting for them, so I made plans to pick them up on my way home from work. I found out about a happy hour later that night for Morgan's birthday, which I am sorry to say I had to miss. We will make it up at some point, she is a cool cat. Anyway, when I got home I started ripping the bike apart to put the new cables on the bike.

Here are the promised photos:
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So, here is the story as I know it:

This time its a Kawasaki though.

I will post pictures of the bike soon, but we are running out for dinner with some family.

I got to come home around 8 tonight, and I don't have a scheduled time to go back in tomorrow, which is good news. The rationale is that I opted for the phone call support position, meaning that I am not in the office for a set shift, so if anyone gets overwhelmed, or something breaks catastrophically, I am the go to person for that. Which is ok, they have my cell numbers, and it means that I don't have to specifically be in the office between midnight and 7, which is a time I don't necessarily work well.

When I left work yesterday, I stopped by the grocery store to get some things I needed, which put me home at the appropriate time to talk to my neighbor.