Modern Vespa

I had a good friend gift me her 6th gen 80GB iPod. She's had it since new and wanted me to have it along with the 8300 odd songs on it.

It is hands down the most meaningful gift anyone has given me ever. I won't add to it or remove from it; it will remain as is.

But what if you don't like Lawrence Welk?

Who doesn't like Lawrence Welk?

He was okay in small doses. His bands were topnotch.

Anna one, anna two, anna tree. Tank you, boyce.

A good nights sleep, my first sip of dark roast coffee and a healthy BM. Yepper, gonna be good day.

Big Mac!

Big Mac's aren't healthy, so nope.

My favorite Ipod was the Mini, replaced the HDD, gave up when the battery aged out. Had the cord so it would play through my pioneer car stereo

Tic, tac, tic, tac...
flying to Italy tomorrow.

If I had a 6th gen Classic with good capacity, I'd put RockBox on it.

added fully integrated Google Nav into my Vespa Snoop app. Much better solution than my previous which was to monitor Google Maps app. But doing it in this integrated way does mean licencing costs ... we'll see how that goes.

Final prepping for a trip to Portland..renting a couple of BMW's riding south with a long-time riding buddy.
A few planned stops..Ukiah, Healdsburg, Monterey and Ventura… terminating in LA.. Amtrak back!

Big Sur is open all the way now, so we'll go that way.
That trip to Italy sounds good also!

Back in North Carolina after the house renovations are finally finished.

Charged Vanessa's battery and gave her a light washing, then a ride to Marshall.

All is good again.

Bill

Does Trixie ride an NC750? I love mine big time.

under construction:

How to change the fuel mapping in a Vespa

Oh yee of little faith.

nothing is cheering me up. I am dead inside.

Go for a ride, that'll fix ya

If that doesn't work go see a specialist for some internal remapping.

🤣

100 points for that

Cheered up with yesterday's wanderings in 'Outback South Dakota' that established that the brick bank building is still standing in Owanka, South Dakota, but apparently wasn't open for business, and it appears that it hasn't been for many decades.

The ghost town of Owanka, SD once was populated with over 300 people, had several churches, a school, an auto repair business and gas station among several other enterprises, but is now down to TWO people within the town's original limits.

Owanka, South Dakota was established in 1888, had a bank robbery in 1920, a murder in 1940, and gained a post office in 1907 or 1908(?). There was also bit of 'concern' expressed back in 1928 when the school superintendent married a ninth grader, compelling many parents to pull their children out of the Owanka school and send them to nearby Wall, SD or New Underwood, SD schools instead.

eBike riding at sunrise this morning along Kentucky Lake. Sorry, no pics.

a.No big must to do molto, as these 30c over temps are bit plenty. They promised thunder and rain but no came true.

b.Finland got among 8 best in euro wolleyball today. Dropped Greece on long match.

You should relocate that lady's lawnmower to there.

Woohoo, we're back.

But from where?

happened last week as well

closed for maintenance?

Every time, I worry that jess has pulled the plug…

Hah. No. Not this time. The server has been unstable lately, and I've been traveling (currently in Portugal) so am away from my development setup and unable to investigate.

If I had to guess, it's another aggressive high-speed scraper overloading the server, but that is really just a guess.

Finland won Italy last night in wolleyball, previous case was 50 years ago. My Roman cafe was quiet of that this morning...

They lost on purpose because it would get boring, and it is not nice to be rude to the guests.

Cheering me up?
Arrived to Portland last eve.. picking up a rental BMW.. packing and heading out today!
😁
Passed this on the way in…. Mt. Hood.

100 year old whisky in all the barrels out back the P.O.?

Considering the possibility of doing a 4000km road trip next month. 10 days?

Oh, and of course it's got a 370km stretch of gravel

A great nights sleep and a dark roast coffee when I got up.

Yup

Prove you are not a robot.

How many pictures show a cat?

Alternatively, how many cats show a picture?

I am starting to get excited as the mechanic is assembling my Belladonna engine with the 177cc Malossi parts.

I sometimes struggle

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Painted ceramic tile in Porto, by yours truly.