Another week finished at work, nothing much changed on that front.
Went to see Hot Fuzz at the cinema on Wednesday with some friends - great film, very funny bits (done by the same people who did Shaun of the Dead). Was out last night for a friend's leaving piss-up - he's going back to Scotland, so needed a send off in an appropriate Manx manner, with lots of ale :-D
Was a little delicate this morning, but not too bad as I was home by just after 11pm last night. Wandered into town around lunchtime for some bits and pieces, then after lunch I made use of the beautiful weather today, for probably the first time this year. Temp was up near 10C, with virtually no wind, and a lovely blue sky.
I took a ride up to the carpet shop and ordered the carpet for the stairs and landing, then took in a lap of the course, stopping off at Harry's on the way through for a cuppa and a chat.
Done nothing this evening, just chilling, watching some TV, reading some ride reports on ADVRider.com
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Sunday, 18 March 2007
Re-registered
Well, another week done at work, same-old same-old. Didn't do that much in the evenings either.
New camera arrived in the post on Tuesday - an Olympus SP-550 UZ with an 18x optical zoom. Haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but I will do :-) A delivery card from the postie arrived on Thursday, so off I trot to the sorting office. Out comes two packages - the rechargeable batteries and charger that I was expecting, plus 3 books from Amazon that apparently the postie tried to deliver on 7th March - couldn't as no-one was in, and couldn't be arsed leaving a notification grr!
My new insurance certificate for the bike arrived on Friday, so Saturday morning I was straight down the Post Office to get the new tax disc. Back home and fitted the tax disc into the holder and attached it to the bike, then took the old number plate off, held it to the new one and marked the holes. Drilled the holes, positioned the new number plate against the rear mudguard and they don't line up!! What!!!
Grr, drilled a new hole in the mudguard and fitted the number plate - yay, I'm Manx legal now!
New camera arrived in the post on Tuesday - an Olympus SP-550 UZ with an 18x optical zoom. Haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but I will do :-) A delivery card from the postie arrived on Thursday, so off I trot to the sorting office. Out comes two packages - the rechargeable batteries and charger that I was expecting, plus 3 books from Amazon that apparently the postie tried to deliver on 7th March - couldn't as no-one was in, and couldn't be arsed leaving a notification grr!
My new insurance certificate for the bike arrived on Friday, so Saturday morning I was straight down the Post Office to get the new tax disc. Back home and fitted the tax disc into the holder and attached it to the bike, then took the old number plate off, held it to the new one and marked the holes. Drilled the holes, positioned the new number plate against the rear mudguard and they don't line up!! What!!!
Grr, drilled a new hole in the mudguard and fitted the number plate - yay, I'm Manx legal now!
Monday, 12 March 2007
Long weekend (part II)
Well, yesterday was a bit disappointing, weather-wise, being overcast, windy and spitting with rain off and on, so I just chilled at home apart from a quick trip to Tesco for some groceries.
Went to see Notes on a Scandal in the evening with Sara and her friend Kathryn - film was OK, nothing special, company was good though :-)
Today dawned a much better day, with sunshine and clear-ish skies. Got into my bike gear after my shower, and was out the door by just after 10am. Took the old Castletown Road south, joining the main road at the Blackboards, then down to Castletown itself, stopping at George's (S&S Motors) to have a gander at the new BMW G-series bikes. He had the Xcountry and the Xchallenge in, and both looked pretty damn good, so I entered the competition to win one lol
From there, I rode down into Port St Mary and then up to Ballagawne crossroads and straight over heading towards the Sloc and Peel. I stopped off at the ruined house that I like to take some more photos - quite a small house, being old, but still pretty cool:
More pics on my Smugmug gallery
After that, it was the climb up the Sloc, then down into Peel and on to St John's, joining the TT course at Ballacraine. Through the Glen Helen section, getting caught behind some slower moving traffic - well, until we got onto the Cronk Y Voddy straight, where I passed a couple cars at once - boy, the Africa Twin sounds good at about 90mph lol
Still beautiful weather going up the east side of the island and across the top, but as I started the climb up the Mountain out of Ramsey it started getting colder and windier. By the time I got to the Verandah series of corners it was clouding over and getting pretty blustery, so I took it careful until dropping down into Douglas again. Came home and been chilling since.
Went to see Notes on a Scandal in the evening with Sara and her friend Kathryn - film was OK, nothing special, company was good though :-)
Today dawned a much better day, with sunshine and clear-ish skies. Got into my bike gear after my shower, and was out the door by just after 10am. Took the old Castletown Road south, joining the main road at the Blackboards, then down to Castletown itself, stopping at George's (S&S Motors) to have a gander at the new BMW G-series bikes. He had the Xcountry and the Xchallenge in, and both looked pretty damn good, so I entered the competition to win one lol
From there, I rode down into Port St Mary and then up to Ballagawne crossroads and straight over heading towards the Sloc and Peel. I stopped off at the ruined house that I like to take some more photos - quite a small house, being old, but still pretty cool:
More pics on my Smugmug gallery
After that, it was the climb up the Sloc, then down into Peel and on to St John's, joining the TT course at Ballacraine. Through the Glen Helen section, getting caught behind some slower moving traffic - well, until we got onto the Cronk Y Voddy straight, where I passed a couple cars at once - boy, the Africa Twin sounds good at about 90mph lol
Still beautiful weather going up the east side of the island and across the top, but as I started the climb up the Mountain out of Ramsey it started getting colder and windier. By the time I got to the Verandah series of corners it was clouding over and getting pretty blustery, so I took it careful until dropping down into Douglas again. Came home and been chilling since.
Saturday, 10 March 2007
Long weekend
Well, after the joys of last weekend I've booked Monday off, so got a 3 day weekend to relax in.
Today I popped into town to get the new number plate for the bike, get some ear plugs and a tax disc holder, then came home to watch Moto GP from Qatar. Wow, that Ducati has some speed!
Rode up to Harry's afterwards and he fitted my new crash bars to the Africa Twin - they look cool
Today I popped into town to get the new number plate for the bike, get some ear plugs and a tax disc holder, then came home to watch Moto GP from Qatar. Wow, that Ducati has some speed!
Rode up to Harry's afterwards and he fitted my new crash bars to the Africa Twin - they look cool
Sunday, 4 March 2007
Shattered
Wow, what a weekend! Been working most of it, with one of our clients going live with new programs, so spent Friday night between 5pm and 12.35am on site releasing the new functionality. Back in on Saturday at 8.30am for the final live testing, and was there until 8pm - including the normal work hours, I worked 27 hours out of the 36 between 9am Friday and 9pm Saturday!
Back in again today at 12.30 until 3.30 for the final checks and fine tuning, and will be back in again tomorrow by 8.30am!
Had a friend's daughter's christening party to go to too, but missed the meal bit due to the working, so got there for a couple of hours to congratulate them. Now trying to chill out for the remains of the weekend - got 20 hours of overtime to claim for tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get time off in lieu (20 hours x 1.5 = 30hrs, 7 hrs a day = 4 days off plus a couple hours :-D )
Back in again today at 12.30 until 3.30 for the final checks and fine tuning, and will be back in again tomorrow by 8.30am!
Had a friend's daughter's christening party to go to too, but missed the meal bit due to the working, so got there for a couple of hours to congratulate them. Now trying to chill out for the remains of the weekend - got 20 hours of overtime to claim for tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get time off in lieu (20 hours x 1.5 = 30hrs, 7 hrs a day = 4 days off plus a couple hours :-D )
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Post again - favourite topic de jour, obviously
Well, sent the motorcycle seat off last night to the buyer in Wales, so that's one out of the way. Re-weighed the centre stand and as it weighs 3kg, with a maximum of 2kg for international letter packets, it still has to go parcel post to Norway at £32.95! If I send it to the UK it'll cost £8.10 again - how do they justify a nearly £25 increase for Norway, especially bearing in mind that if it weighed 2kg, it would only cost £16.26 to go to the same country, an extra £16.69 for an extra 1kg!
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