Rantings of a Lunatic

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. If my assumptions are correct, it will only require a new relay, (already ordered off ebay for $8) and reconnecting the red wire that was cut and spliced away. If thats right, then the turn signals will start working again, which is something I am looking forward to. After that work, then I will have a few more tasks, like the cooling system flush. I am kind of worried about that, the amount of rust and sludge that were in there were pretty sickening to me, but hopefully it will all be ok after I run a flush through it. That will also be when I first fire it up after the valve-job that I did on it. All said, what I expect is about another 2.5 hours worth of work once I get the new relay in. Then its off to ride more. Unfortunately I am not sure if I will be able to take care of it yet this week, or if it will have to wait until next week.
I missed the ROT rally last weekend, I saw the riders coming in, and riding out, but I was in Houston over the weekend, so I wasn’t able to go take part in the festivities. Its interesting though, I don’t know any people from the Austin area who went to take part in it.
In Houston, I was hanging out with my family. My mom and I went and took a welding class, then we all went and celebrated Amanda’s birthday. It was good to see my family again.
Also my garden has been going well. We picked some veggies the other day. The Japanese Long cucumbers are averaging 8″ long right now, and the crooked necked squash is doing pretty well. Unfortunately the snow peas are all gone, they only lasted a few minutes after being picked. Kelly missed the pole beans altogether. They are averaging 14-18″ right now, so they look more like the stalks of the plants actually. I will probably pick those tomorrow, and we can have them for dinner. In all, the garden has been an interesting experiment, but I will make more changes before next year. I am reading about permaculture right now, and am interested in ripping up most of the back yard in an effort to turn it into an urban food producing jungle. We will see how that works out. I know that I will need a tiller for one thing, because I am not going to try to turn the soil over by hand again. That was a ton of crazy work that took a long time.
Photos will be coming shortly.