Modern Vespa

Some lucky kid has a cool Grampa.

Is that a pizza I see on the curry hook?

That's what I thought. But I've never carried pizza. Who knows…?

Well you're missin out mister.

These cheer me up.

One Is Fenner and I on our way to Berlin ( Avus ) during a 1200 mile ride in one day and the other is when we were briefly fueling up in Scotland so we must have been roughly halfway through a 1000 mile ride.

A stunning rider is Fenner. I believe he was on a GTS in the second pic. NCX in the first.

I mean, a pizza is Italian after all.

Um, whatever became of "Sparky"? Did I miss an episode?

No, I just flit back and forth on the use of her fictitious alternative names. One day she's 'Trixie', and another she's 'Sparky'.

Her driver's license mentions a woman named Teresa, so I can always fall back on that one if I absolutely have to.

And if you forget your own name it's written in the collar of your shirt.

What up with the graphics on that white helmet? Any other photos? Looks pretty rad.

Give me a minute to find those. It was a Shark helmet that had a limited run.

Hold the line caller.

Standing by.

Here you go.

Super cool lid. Looks like it might be easier to buy a white helmet and vinyl cut the graphics. Sold out.

All the good helmets are aways long gone before I take notice.

It's my superpower.

Your time will come

Patience is a virtue.

This morning a met a guy with a Porsche 911/930 Turbo with 144,000 miles on it.

Oh yes.

he wins life.

I tried not to turn into a dribbling idiot.

It was one of the first cars actually to eat people.

Snap over steer in practically any gear.

Love it.

I have to ask.

Did you walk up to this individual while they were pumping gas or about to take a bike out of their scone at the cafe to ask about their car?

There is someone in this forum who hates that.

The whole story.

The owner was working on it on his driveway so as I walked by I casually said "930"?

His eyes lit up and he proceeded to tell me the whole tale of finding it and restoring it so I was happy to listen.

If he didn't want to engage all he had to say was Yes and then ignore me.

It's the idiots that don't understand that I'm watching the level in the tank and the concept of personal space that I can't stand.

My sister just took this pic in Chicago of this lad on his electric Vespa. She said it was quick! Starting them young cheers me up.😀

Good picture.

He'll probably buy a Kawasaki.

Earlier this morning while hanging out with my buddy at a Cafe for breakfast a guy turns up on a RE 500 Classic but he was the spitting image of Adam Driver.

He quickly aquired the nickname Kylo Renfield.

I'm at my eclipse viewing location and there isn't a cloud in sight.

Sun is shining in the sky.

There ain't a cloud in sight.

It stopped raining. Everybody's in the play

And don't you know, it's a beautiful good day.

Hey, hey hey!

I've found the first sub £10,000 BMW K1600 on Ebay.

it's a 2017 so it hasn't been strangled by Euro 5 and only has 22,000 miles on it.

Totally useless but hey, it's a K1600.

Seriously, nobody eclipses?

I've spent the past week (or so -- I've honestly lost track at this point) beating my head against the keyboard, building a new server. Along the way, I've learned an entirely new way to build servers in an incremental, repeatable manner. And I've also spun up -- and then destroyed -- in excess of 100 server instances, trying to get the details right, improving little by little, sometimes taking a step back, sometimes falling on my face.

Also, my forehead has the impression FGHJK, but backwards.

This evening at about 10:30pm, I got the home page of the site to load on the new server for the first time. There's still much, much, much to do -- I've adopted a lot of new pieces, and they all need massaging -- but seeing the main page pop up for the first time is certainly cheering me up today.

And... another one bites the dust. I am expecting I might have to spin up and destroy 100 more before I get this right.

You're basically the Cruella de Vil of servers.

Well done Jess.

sorry, my head's still on the last page with that whole too much beer thang"!

Just make sure your neighbour goes nowhere near a HAL9000 for heavens sake!

#doesnotcompute

I didn't realise too much free beer was actually a thing!

Sounds very much like an oxymoron to me.

I'm sorry fleece, I'm afraid I can't do that.

For the better part of the last week, I was in a ridiculously large resort in Orlando for the yearly international Phi Theta Kappa conference, Catalyst. (PTK is the official honors society for two-year colleges.) I got to see people I haven't seen since the regional officer conference about 6 months ago, more I hadn't seen since last year's conference, and plenty of folks I'm now newly friends with.

I'm a regional officer, and helped my region receive two awards! I was also included in a "Parade of Scholars" on stage in front of about 4000 people, and can officially say that a portion of my education has been officially sponsored by Coca-Cola.

My group only had a few hours to spare, but we did manage to make it over to Epcot during the ridiculously busy week. I'm sure some of it is nostalgia speaking, but I haven't been there for nearly 20 years and I was just so happy to get to see Spaceship Earth again.

To top it all off, I woke up this morning to an email acceptance letter for my top choice university. I am absolutely exhausted, but my gods has it been an amazing week!

passed a stone that has been stuck for several days

I feel your pain. Congratulations. Hopefully, no more.

It ain't the first and I doubt it will be the last. But at least they have been typically a couple of years apart

+1

One would think with your riding habits they'd shake loose before you knew you had them.

Dog,

You still amaze me. 1200 miles in one day on two wheels! What draws you to these ordeals? I may be your polar opposite. I like riding slow on back counry roads (average speed 45-50 mph) stopping every hour for 1/2 hour. Shoot the shit with friends, fuel up, hydrate and hit the crapper.

On these milage missons are you listeing to music, thinking deep thoughts about the cosmos. Whats the deal?

Good on you, my age and back could not do it.

Bob Copeland