I just got off the phone with Junior over in the service department at American Eagle Harley Davidson. The bike’s fixed, it was a broken shift pawl spring, one of the nicely buried parts that I wouldn’t have been able to get at anyways. And to make things even better, the bill wasn’t astronomical either! So I’m going to go pick it up tonight…
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Free MP3s
I’ve found a few good sites for indie and other music that are, apparently, legally distributing MP3s. Check them out and for pete’s sake support them by buying/donating.
Soundloads
GarageBand.com
Epitonic
Links care of Metafilter.
Kill Bill Vol. 2
This was Good Stuff! It was a lot different than the first installment, with a lot more backstory and plot building than gratuitous voilence but it was still a lot of fun. The character of Pei Mei was a hoot, and after watching the making of featurette I think I’m going to rent a few of the Shaw Brothers’ movies since he’s apparently a recurring character in them.
The Sportster’s in the shop
I gave it my best shot, but it wasn’t any kind of obvious problem other than the shifter lever breaking off when I removed the screw holding it on the shaft. The detent spring was fine and as far as I could tell the detent plate was still in place, but it’s pretty well hidden behind the clutch assembly so it could still be the problem. But, since I don’t have the tools or technical know-how to pull that, I decided to call it quits and send it to the shop. So, it’s now in American Eagle Harley-Davidson‘s hands. Updates will follow.
Elektra
The Ufies had the weekly movie night last night with Elektra on the bill. It was OK, but I thought it was a little slow in parts and weak on the story line. I don’t know too much about the comic book history of the character so I can’t really comment on that aspect of the film.
After the movie we headed over to Steak n Shake for some shakes and chili. I think I finally got home at around 2:20 AM but all in all a great night.
Throwing my hat into the ring
Tonight was the Lone Star Jeep Club‘s monthly meeting and after listening to some empassioned pleas for more people to run for positions, I’ve decided to run for one of the open Member Board positions. It’s time for me to give something back after three years of enjoying the fruits of other peoples’ labor. Speeches are next month, and the voting results will be announced on March 12th.
Lasik update
I went in for my 3 month checkup today and am at 20/20! The right eye’s a little worse than the left, but that was the case even before the surgery. I just can’t put into words how happy I am with the results I’ve gotten. I went from 20/1000 to 20/20. Thank you Dr. Tylock
The new focuser came in
So after the JMI Motofocus died I ordered a Meade #1244 electric focuser. I just finished installing it and it checks out just fine. The nice thing is that it connects into one of the accessory ports on the ETX-90’s base which allows me to control it from the Autostar handbox instead of having a separate controller. I’m going to send the MotoFocus back for repairs and then will probably sell it off on Astromart.
And in true astronomy fashion, it’s clouded over and raining, so no real sky test until this weekend.
Today I was unprofessional
I just hope that one day I can come up with a zinger of this quality.
Transmission problems
I’ve got a puzzle to solve now. My transmission has started acting up. It won’t downshift to first without a bit of fiddling, it’s like the shifter is being blocked. But if I go from second to neutral and then try it’ll drop right in. I posted a query to the Sportster List and the responses that I’ve gotten so far are pointing me towards the primary chain. So it looks like I’ve got another project for this weekend.