Somethin's Always Cookin' at the O'Haras

The first rule of salvaging is this: make sure the parts you’re getting actually fit your needs!

The saga of the bike is still ongoing.  I should add some pictures of the welding job. It was done at one of those chopper harley custom motorcycle places. I was half curious to go down there myself, but due to the fact that I take the Siberia Express with Dr Zhivago every morning, I asked Dad-in-law help me out (thanks Granddad!). I thought they did a pretty good job considering.. the only problem being they singed the stickers so now it all looks a bit funny, and definitely no longer worth much. Except to me. This bike and I are now bonded now, like that girl from the truly awful James Bond thriller The World is Not Enough was bonded to the baddie played by the always entertaining Robert Carlyle.

The guy who salvaged and sold me the Fox RP2 rear shock? He must have used the wrong measurements, cause I picked it up, held it against my own shock, and it looked about right. Little did I know it was a full 10mm different, and therefore completely unusable to me! On a slightly positive note, however, i can sell this one on, and purchase the right size. I don’t know if I’m going to get as good a price for the next one, but at least I should get a decent price for this one.

Right now I’m watching this one on eBay. Please don’t bid against me.

In other news I bought some budgie smugglers today.

Not to replace your usual perusal of Metafilter and Waxy.org links, and definitely not Digg or Reddit, a couple of links I thought interesting:

Raising the Bar (a discussion of the number of LDS missionaries with statistics in bar chart form)

Unrelated to the above, but religion related:

Space Opera doesn’t mean to you what it means to a Scientologist (a pretty detailed run down of doctrine and beliefs held by the select and advanced few within the Scientology religion) I didn’t get through all of it yet, but what I did read is very imaginative.

And not religious but extremely creative:

A steampunk wheelchair for Prof X (slyt)

Yep we have now been married for 5 years. The longest relationship either of us have ever had.

How young does that make us seem? Really it just means we are behind, yep behind all those people out there that figure things out nice and young and got going.

It would have to be the year 2055 for us to make it to our 50th year Anniversary. Not sure what the chances are of that I would be coming up the rear of 80 years old. Hadn’t ever really pictured myself living that long. My pop on my mothers side almost made 90 and boy that seemed ancient! He still looked good though, a handsome chap. I guess it’s all to do with the quality of life.

I’ve always thought it a good idea to set goals for things we want to do in this life, have or see.

According to whomever decides such things, we should be buying one of the following gifts. Not that we paid any attention the last 4 years, so why should we now.

5th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Traditional Anniversary Gift: Wood
Modern Anniversary Gift: Silverware

I thought it interesting that their is now a modern take on these gifts. So now we have at least 2 people that think their ideas should be adhered to, or is it just an easy way to think of something to give your significant other, because you can’t possibly think of anything yourself?

We had decided on a gift for one an other at the start of our marriage I’m glad we made it obtainable. It won’t break the bank and it reminds us of our commitment to one another. It’s gold. I almost couldn’t get them, now that would of been bad, but with persistence I came through. What can I say, gold suites us both better

Now we’ve hit 5 years, I guess we should set a 10 year goal, this one would need to be larger. I’m thinking an overseas holiday, just the two of us. (big grin) We might need to start saving for it now. We aren’t as close as we once were (location wise), whilst living in the states Greece and Barcelona are the destination.

I am awfully grateful for my husband, he is my stallion! Can’t think of anyone else I’d rather be married to. He once again came through with another poem/poetry for our special occasion. I’ll share:

Will there come a time when I grow tired of you?

Never my love

Will this heart of mine lose it’s desire for you?

Never my Love

Love won’t end when you know that my whole life

depends on you

Love won’t end I’ve asked you to spend your whole

life with me

We have been truly blessed to find one another, to have 3 beautiful children together and to know whatever may be, as my engagement ring signifies there will always be three, he, I and God/ he, I and our children. What else could we possibly need.

Don’t answer that honey! I love you…..

You’ve seen the various words of the day as featured on this blog, but here’s a new one: Job Title of the Day:

Independent Textiles Professional

I was reading about e-waste, which is the all the computer and electronic equipment that gets discarded after an upgrade, and it made me curious, because it’s a problem that needs to be addressed more effectively, since e-waste will only increase as time goes on. I spent a little time reading up on it.

This article in particular caught my attention, about computers and various waste from developed countries being sent to pile up and pollute.

I think it’s a process that is not regulated enough. I’m sure there are laws governing proper disposal and recycling of computer waste, but it seems that people still just go around those laws. Part of me wonders if the excuse for shipping them there in the first place was under the guise of giving computers to poor and underpriveleged schools or communities in Africa. That part of me also wonders how much junk is shipped there under the guise of charity and never used.

Food for thought.

P.S. I’m sure Molly will be disapponted that she didn’t get to those free moon boots first.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Ghandi

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