build is complete. bike is sexy. rob is going to go ride bike now. thanks to germ and wade for tech support, and possibly for coming to take me to the hospital when the wheels fall off this thing or something… check my flickr site for the progress photos of the build…
ok. so, yeah. I did something cool today… despite the fact that there is a two part system to start the damn thing, consisting of one switch you have to slide with your thumb, and a trigger you then pull with your fingers, I somehow managed to turn the weed eater loose on myself. In the 3 nanoseconds it took the information to travel from my hand to my brain, that there was, in fact, something horribly wrong, I burrowed a nice hole in the top of my hand. Hooray! The damn thing is, despite my best efforts, I can’t imagine a scenario that would involve me having one hand on the handle of the weed eater, and the other hand in the splash zone… oh well, sadly, it’s probably not the dumbest thing I will do this week… Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, below is a picture of the idiot that was on the receiving end of an ass whooping from an electric weed eater. enjoy.
knock knock. wha? I wonder who that could be…. oh, it’s wade’s good buddy, brown santa, and look! he comes bearing gifts….
and this is what was inside those boxes….
now, to the untrained eye, thats a big pile of stuff… in reality? yeah, thats a frame and handlebars away from the sexiest bike you’ve ever seen…. frame should be here within the next few days, and if bss can get their shit together, and get germ’s bike out the door, he’s hooking me up with some handlebars…so, yeah…. check back for progress reports on the bike build. and, oh, yeah… wish me luck….
yeah. thats a pink sticker thats says “Look what my Daddy’s money bought me.”….. on a Honda Civic….hatchback…. still, not as badass as the two Dodge Rams I saw parked side by side at the HEB by my house… a white one with a huge Autobots sticker on the back window, and a black one with, you guessed it, a huge Decepticons sticker…. sigh…. are you people even trying anymore? jesus…
for the few folks who read this, apologies on the lack of new content… been busy with the new house, and working on the design for the new shop. the house is coming along nicely, got a few more smallish projects to wrap up, but the shop design is getting really close to finalized. hoping to get some bids and through permitting, i don’t know, maybe even break ground, by the end of the month…. take a gander, let me know what you think… personally, I love it, and can’t wait for it to be in my backyard. Then the fun part of moving my equipment up here… anyone feeling up to helping me move 4 machines, all weighting close to or over 1000 lbs. each? come on, it’ll be fuuuuuunnnnn……. what if i buy beer and pizza?
edit: added new image of shop in context of existing yard… yaarrrr…..