Well, Saturday is supposed to be my drawing/publishing day, but I decided days ago to spend the day working on video projects. Alas, just yesterday I had to decide to spend the day running errands that I haven't been able to run during the week thanks to not having my own transportation.
Yep, the scooter is dead again. Sadly, the brackets that hold the muffler onto the frame have broken off and they needed to charge me another $200+ to reattach/replace them ON TOP of the cost of the broken muffler, which was going to come in at around $200. Match that up with the $300 I spent last month to take care of the clutch and you've got roughly the value of the bike. So, I rode it home today from the shop letting most of the American south west hear me do it as my bike sounds like a total badass HOG right now.
Alas, it's just a Honda Elite 80. :)
So, now I'm looking for a new bike. Preferably a bigger Elite (is there an Elite 250?) or even a sport bike/cafe racer that has a bit more power than even a 250cc Elite would have. I don't have to go on the highway or anything, I just think keeping up with 45mph traffic would be a nice thing to be able to do. I'll be eyeing CraigsList.org while I save up the scratch for a new two-wheeled vehicle. Anyone have any advice on bikes?
Then, there's grocery shopping, anime shopping (gotta swing by Power Anime!) and then there's taking in my iPod. Yep, last week I took my bike in, this weekend it's my iPod. It had been acting a little wonky since my PowerBook crashed in the middle of transferring a song to it and despite restoring the factory default software, it's still been behaving erratically (sp?). Then, yesterday, I look at it and it's just cycling through a hard reset process over and over.
So, I hit the center button, then menu and then hold them both down to do a manual hard reset. Nothing changes. The screen blanks for a bit longer than usual and the resumes the reset cycle. So, I just pulled it out of the dock and waited for the battery to die. :(
I have a feeling the HD is dead. Luckily, it's been less than a year since I bought it, so hopefully, I'll be able to walk in with this one and walk out with a new one...
HA!
Wishful thinking, I know, especially after my iBook fun two years back with it dying three times in one year and Apple saying they'd need to fix it every time and only offered to replace it once it had gotten lost in shipping. Then I demanded a refund which I got and then bought a PowerBook which had just dropped in price. :) Still, that process took the better part of a year to play out. Let's hope my iPod experience is a little faster...
Oh yeah and tomorrow we're supposed to shoot the latest episode of The 5 Minute Show, so I don't know when I'll have time to blog. Sheesh--it's going to be tight. Welp, I should run. Gotta get a bite to eat, then we get to flea bomb the place! Did I forget to mention that somehow we got fleas in a month back? We bombed the place two weekends ago and now we're making sure they're all dead by bombing again today. WAHOO!!
Later!
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