Tuesday, April 14, 2009

finished

The final part I needed to fix the Peugeot bike frame came last week. I salvaged the frame from underneath a mountain of washing machines on the side of the road last year. Since then, I had stripped the frame down of non-essential parts, and cleaned it up a little. The freewheel I ordered fit and after measuring out the right length of bicycle chain, I took it for a spin this morning. Fast bike. I'm going to try and build my endurance for some of the summer bike tours I've been planning. The big one is:

Tour de Utah Lake. 95 miles of awesome. 

The entire ride has a few hundred feet of gain/loss, and the second half is relatively flat, following the east coast of the lake. I'm hoping to try this in June. 

Friday, April 10, 2009

KITH French Fur Trappers

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

hey

I went to the store and bought raisin bread. 

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

blog

It is wednesday. I hope it rains today.

Friday, April 3, 2009

whoa

Crazy shooting in my hometown of Binghamton, NY today.

What a useless thing to do. I hate crazy people with guns.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

heh.

Last night for April Fool's Jimmy Fallon had a Japanese stand-in do his monologue. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that thought he was actually funnier than Jimmy. Hmmm... is the show better in another language, in english subtitles? Yes. 

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

the update

Nottblock episode 2 is awesome.
(www.youtube.com/nottblock)

I'm at a good spot with all of my papers that I need to have finished soon. Sort of. Everything will be ok.

Some setbacks to the bass guitar project: The last coat of epoxy to the neck did not cure properly, and while it looked good I must have mixed in too much resin because it remained sticky to the touch (even after a week). so I'm going to sand it off and restart.
The paints used for the body are incompatible with each other... causing some funky reactions. I sprayed a layer of primer, and then a few coats of black, and then a coat of red. The red paint and the black did not like each other. The last coat finally dried, and now the body is red. It looks good. I'll need a different black to finish the thing. Then I'll clear coat it. Right now it's snowing again, and it will probably rain next week so I won't be able to paint for a long time. Humidity is bad. I'm frustrated with the neck issue, so I don't know when I'll finish this thing.

The weather has been up and down the last few weeks. It was getting warmer outside, so I started working on that Peugeot bike frame I found last fall. I stole some parts off of another bike and everything looks like it will work out. I just need the weather to get better.

I've been up late the past few nights. I haven't been sleeping that well. Last night I was up late making a history presentation for Nat's class...