Public service announement.

Today is Election day.

So please, vote. I don't give a fuck for whom, just go and vote.

Don't let less than half of the country decide how the rest of it should be run. Be heard!

Getting settled in.

It's bigger, it's taller, it's SUBURBIA!!!


That's right, I am in the "heartland." Social conservatives surround me. I am surprised that I don't go into hives. Never did understand those people. I mean really, let's go over this thing.

Let's make God worship a national law.
Let's rewrite the Constitution to exclude the gays from marriage.
Let's tell women what to do with their bodies.
Let's let the CIA and NSA tape and spy on anyone they wish.

But we want less government....

Umm..

Forgive me if I am a little confused.

It's only a few weeks until election time and you can probably guess that I am not voting Republican. Now here is the sad part. I spent the last decade registered as a Libertarian. I recently re-registered for Utah and changed over to an Independent. Which means that I fucking hate them all. But I will pick whatever S.O.B. doesn't totally disgust me. And I also won't feel a lick of guilt voting against a rat-bastard that has gone from someone that I would have cheered all the way to the White House 8 years ago, to being some type of pandering elephant cock-sucker.

Too bad I am not exactly energized about the other one either. But at least I don't get a "I have been touched where my bathing suit goes" kind of nasty feeling from that one.

Here's the thing. I am a FISCAL conservative. I don't want them wasting my money. I don't want them letting our jobs go away. I don't want crap from China to replace American made crap. But I don't give a rat's ass what you do. Just don't do it to children, the unwilling, or me. Maybe I am wrong, but isn't that what freedom should really mean?

Ah well, fuck it.

Boredom

So T has been gone since Wednesday. And Her little one went to visit relatives in Cali. So it has been me and my boy hanging out for the last few days. Now I love my boy, but this really has been the first time in the last year that I haven't been around T. So needless to say, I am a touch on the stir-crazy side. But she will be home in a couple of days. And the boy is also gonna be back in a couple of days. So we will return to normal, abnormal.

On to the good stuff - The Garage!!

Can we get a fuck yeah?



Yeah I got me a spot in the garage. That used to be our office desk, but it won't fit down the stairs to the basement. So it stayed upstairs. And we didn't need it inside, so I figured that since I needed a work bench that it would stay in the garage.





There is still a lot of clean up to make the garage really usable. But I am making a dent. I pulled a couple of the studs out of the engine today, but still have a lot to do. But I will be back out there cleaning and getting things in order.

And what doesn't fit in the garage. Goes to the shed!!



Sweet to have the storage. I am just diggin on this place. Plus I really don't feel like packing again anytime soon.

Finally!

We are moved!

So we have honestly been moved for a couple of weeks, but I am just now getting back in the groove.

With getting the new digs ready, packing, unpacking, getting the Intarwebs going and then catching back up with class and work, I just didn't want to be arsed with the blog.

So let's talk about the house.

Here's where we started.



Sadly enough the previous tenants were evicted, so while the place wasn't destroyed, it looks like they did get to the point of I.D.G.A.F. So the place stank of animal, and we aren't talking about the smell of dog and cat bodies, but the stench of dog urine and such. And grubby kid marks and crap like that.

And some paint and a *lot* of carpet cleaning later, we had this...



Now, I can't take any credit for this stuff. It was honestly 90% T's work. I would come after work and do what painting and cleaning I could. But since she is home for right now, she was able to do all the major shit during the day while the boys were at school and I was in the basement. Honestly, if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have finished in time.

So where does that leave us? Well it's bigger for starters. About twice the size of the last place. The garage is a bit larger and I now have a shed to store the stuff that isn't being worked on right at the moment.

Unfortunately, the garage still has junk laying around from the move. Some goes to the basement, other stuff goes to the shed. And I will get on it soon. We still have a bunch of yard work left to do before the season totally changes, but it is getting nicer in that respect also.

This is from last week.


I swear I have cleaned up some since then. It still isn't clean enough to park a car. But soon. Mainly because winter will be here soon and my ass is not going out into the snow to warm up my car. Hell no.

So I am still trying to get stuff situated, but hopefully I will get it done here soon and get back on task.

And I will leave with the view from my smoking section.
The big picture.

And the blog picture.

Whaddya want? A rubber biscuit??

OK. Nothing of any significance to post ATM. But here is the news of late.

Site has been redesigned some. A color change, a header change, and I decided to add a couple of shirts through spreadshirt.com. Just look at the link to the right. ->

You know part of me is tempted to be the foul mouthed version of the Video Professor. "Buy my fuckin' shit, please."

T didn't get the job in Arizona. Can't say that I am distraught about it. It sucks she lost her work because she had to work for a pack of two-bit swindlers. Two weeks and she still hasn't gotten the vacation pay one of the owners ( Richard Paul Evans ) promised her. Yeah some religious do-gooder fuck. He has a ranch, a BMW, and can fly his happy, over-coiffed ass all over the place. But won't foot the bill for a few weeks of vacation pay. I guess you don't get to be a millionaire without fucking over someone along the way.

But anyway. Got a couple of hopeful interviews in the pipelines, just trying to get it all finished up. Fingers crossed I can do these people some justice.

I picked up a little side job for a few bucks. Looking pretty long term. So that is keeping my evenings full also. And last week I just finished my finals for two classes i was doing. This next round of classes put me at one year. One year! Who the hell would have thought I would get this far? I sure didn't.

Plus the four of us are moving. So on the first I will be in some new digs. I will post up some pictures when we get the place cleaned up. We worked a deal to paint and clean up and in exchange it will cover our pet deposit and first months rent! w00t!! So the next couple of weeks are gonna be pretty well insane.

Heeerrre's Jay!

As I mentioned in my last post. I had something minor up my sleeve. Well I guess it is major for this blog.

With all the goings on with me and my build, I have a bit of downtime and too broke to buy tools time. So I started thinking bout what to do here.

I have posted some YouTube shit. But really I figure that is mostly for people that haven't got a single thing to say. And me? I always got an opinion or something stupid to say.

So in a flash of brilliance, I figure that I would show someone else's stuff here. I know, not really anything new. There are tons of blogs that send out interview questions to other people.

Well, here is my twist.

See I know everyone wants to suck on the teat of some guy that has been building works of H-D art in their shop for the last 25 years. The poor unrecognized soul that has won awards but can't leap that fence to make them the next OCC or WCC. That is not my goal. I am not looking for the one we admire because of all their innate skills and the masterpieces they have created, while "Keeping it real, man."

These posts will be of regular folk. That have done good quality work. Maybe it was their first bike. Maybe it has been a long trend. But these are low-buck beauties that have something special. I am not talking about some piece of shit that a guy took a can of Krylon to, and tossed on a set of ape hangers and then called it a bobber. I am not talking about the schmuck that tossed a set of dirtbike bars on their Yamaha 250 and now is calling it a cafe racer.

These will (hopefully) people that have brought back to life a killer bike, or have made something unique all on their own. People that had limited experience on bikes, that tossed a bunch of work or luck into the mix and made something to make the rest of us broke fuckers want to be half as good.

Plus, these will not be Harley and Brit bikes. There are already people doing a much better job at that market than I ever could. So I will stick to our rice burning and bastard child brands.

So here is the first installment.



This here is JaySco from hondachopper.com and his resurrected Denver's CB750. I got to see this bike while it was still in pieces in his garage back in California. I had just picked up my project and was prowling for anyone that had any old crap to give away to a broke ass divorced fuck. And Jay, without ever actually meeting me, invited me to his house and gave me a few odds and ends to help me along. Plus I got a coffee can to put some shit into as well. Talk about one quality guy. And I am damn glad I got to meet him before I shipped out to the land of Moroni.

But enough of my shit. Time to let JaySco speak for himself.


How long have you been riding motorcycles for? Street and dirt.
Didn't ride really until about a year and a half ago. The Denvers Chop is my first bike. Had a quad for a couple years a while back.


What made you want to take on this project? Basically, what made you say to yourself, "I can do this or I can at least give it a shot"?
Money. I wanted a bike but didn't have the cash to shell out for a new fancy one with the kids, mortgage, blah blah. Buddy of mine had the roller and was low on funds so I got an almost complete bike for $1000. Figured I'm a fast learner and have a little mechanical and electrical knowledge, why not give it a shot.



How did you find the bike, and what is its history?
The bike belonged to a brother of a friend of a friend (yup, one of those stories), anywho, dude had it since it was new as far as I know and my buddy tried getting it for years cuz it was just sitting there getting raped by the local tweakers. So my buddy gets it and comes up on hard times about a year later, so I pick it up and thats that. I didn't realize exactly what it was till I started asking questiond and posting pics on the net.


Any horror stories on the build itself?
It went surprisingly smooth, like I said the bike was almost complete so I didn't need to do any major work. Just a basic tear down/rebuild because it had been sitting for 15+ years. All the major stuff was there (frame, motor, front end, tins), I just needed to sort out the little odds and ends (all the electrical, cables, etc.). Even the SPCN inspection at the CHP went good, from what I hear that is a rare situation.



What kind of tools and equipment did you have access to?
Just basic hand tools and power tools at home, had access to a drill press and welders at work. Luckily that's all I needed.


Do you have any tips for someone else thinking of taking on the same kind of project?
When you say "tips", are you asking for a donation? Pay close attention to everything, check welds on the frame (I didn't), inspect the motor closely (I didn't), take lots of pics and keep everything organized (I didn't). Do it right, not like I did it. This was my first bike and first build, luckily I'm a lucky SOB. I plan on stripping it and doing it up right in the future.



What are you working on now?
I have a stock 1978 cb750F that I am working on as time and cash allow (see 3 kids+wife+mortgage above), plans are to hardtail with a little rear stretch and drop.....hell thats about it. just want to ride it. Also have a Suzuki dirt bike that was the first bike I ever rode twenty-something years ago. Little 70's 2 stroke thing.

We got somethin' special (ed) for you.

That's right boy and girl. I have something in the works, hopefully here very soon. Just keep an eye on this space. Soon you should see a nice new piece in my hopelessly inane style.

Here (For Now)

For anyone that also knows me from other boards, I was asking about the lay of the land in Arizona.

T was interviewing with the people that just bought out her company, and it was looking pretty good. Well not sure what happened, but they decided not to hire her on. Probably not wanting to deal with paying her benefits and such. (They were a start-up)

Anyway, it had put the Honda on hold. But since it looks like we are sticking around for a bit longer, I will be getting out in the garage again to keep on dismantling things. So depending on the finances over the next few months, hopefully there will be a bit of progress.

Been listening to some Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love lately, so I will leave you with something from YouTube.