- RT: @cnnbrk: Farrah Fawcett, star of "Charlie's Angels," has died from cancer at 62. This makes me sad. My first Celebrity Crush is dead. #
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- Sad = Speedways $.99 iced coffee is 10x more delicious than McDonnalds $3 iced coffee. Which may be the worst on the planet. #
- is shipping his REPLACEMENT watch back to SKAGEN because it didn't keep time either. http://bit.ly/2vmoN #
- is getting really, really tired of all the rain… This aint Seattle… Sheesh. #
- Chinese Thursday… I'm not sure what was in my General Tso's Chicken, but I'm fairly confident that it wasn't chicken… #
A few shots of Matthew from this weekend.
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| From More Matthew_1 |
I had forgotten how much Monty loves the pool.
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| From Monty in the Pool |
As long as the kids are in the pool that’s where he wants to be. I’ll walk around the outside edge and hop on to a body board and float around. When we had more than one he’d hop back and forth between them. He’s playing life guard and will start barking if anyone goes under…
Michael graduated last night from Edgewood, with Honors!
Regardless of what he thinks we are very proud of him 
We’re having an open house/graduation party on Sunday the 7th. 5pm-9pm.
Back in 2006 when I attended Cisco Networkers (or NotWorkers as it’s often referred).
I purchased a Cisco branded Skagen watch. The price was right, and I was in a mood for a watch and had been looking at Skagen for a while since they are so light and ‘thin’.
On the way home I noticed it wasn’t keeping time and that bothered me. It wasn’t until a couple weeks later that I noticed if you bumped it at all, the minute hand would just ‘move’. It would keep time just fine sitting on the desk, just don’t subject it to any movement. 
I called Cisco Marketing to see if they’d swap me out. Turns out they were the last batch and since Cisco was in the process of changing logo’s there wouldn’t be anymore.
They suggested I send it to Skagen since it had a limited lifetime warranty.
Well I never did, that was until about a month ago. I printed out the RMA form, included Credit card info fully expecting to be dinged $30 bucks or so for the repair.
A couple of weeks passed and I noticed that Skagen had only dinged me $8.95 (plus the cost of shipping it to them). Which appears is the standard fee for warranty repair. (yes a fee for warranty work, go figure).
I was giddy, looking forward to getting a nice and relatively new watch back.
It arrived today.
I tore open the envelope, pulled out the slip and read it. Work performed Reseal Case & Attached Minute Hand!.
Then I pulled out the box congaing the watch. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Where was the minute hand? Floating around the number 1 and 2 on the dial, completely detached from the movement. Pfffft.
See:
(in the photo it’s floating over the #3)
So I turned it over to my wife to handle. She’s good with stuff like that. At first they wanted me to ship it to them again (at my cost) and that wasn’t going to fly.
But in the end they are supposed to take care of me. They are going to build me a watch. (sans the Cisco Logo) and ship it to me and pick up the bumb fix.
I’ll update if that doesn’t happen.
We’ve had a pool since we’ve lived here. It wasn’t a new pool, though we’d replaced the liner once.
In summer of 2007 is succumbed to moles. They burrowed under the liner, came up for air, popped a significant hole and likely drowned as a result. The pool emptied very quickly.
We didn’t replace it until this year, but it’s now done.
An upgrade, sort of, from a 48” pool to a 52” pool. It’s also supposed to be a 24 foot pool, but it didn’t line up with the deck very well. (apparently some older pools that are supposed to be 24” are really only 23.5 feet.
Photos:
Now for some sunny days to use it.
At 33,000 miles, my 2006 FJR is due for some maintenance.
Most of this is routine maintenance and not warranty work. Since this is a ‘farkled’ ld bike, I prefer to do as much of the work myself. No sense in having someone worry about my GPS/Radar Detector/XM Radio and other add-on items. Plus I get to know the work was done to my satisfaction.
On the agenda is:
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| Final Drive Swap | ||
| …Done… My final drive started weeping again. I have all the seals but even better I have a low mileage (2700 miles) rear end that I nabbed of eBay a while back. I’ve done the swap, lubed up the spines and will replace the seals in my original unit. . |
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| Head Bearing Upgrade/Replace with Tapered Set | ||
| …Done…
Special thanks to ‘Just Roy’ a forum member who makes an awesome head set socket and member ‘AllIn’ who loaned me the tools to remove the races and press in the new ones. |
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| Ignition Switch Recall Work | ||
| …Done… . A local dealer was willing to provide the parts so I could do it myself. Work performed in this service bulletin. It’s a complete crock that Yamaha only gives these guys an hour service time. It took me a good hour and a half and I already had the bike halfway apart. . |
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| Fork Service | ||
| Oil on order, currently just a flush and refill with new fork oil but I’m jonesing for a suspension upgrade. . … Done … Using Maxima 5wt Fork Oil. . |
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| Valve Clearance Check/Adjust | ||
| I have a shim kit in stock and will do this in the next week or two. This is the biggest item on the list and will take a good day for me to complete with coolant flush at the same time. I should probably do plugs too but I did my initial set a little late and they looked great. . … Done … The 32K clearance check on my ‘06 were: All in spec though a couple of the intake valves were leaning towards the tighter side. Proving once again that having the shims on hand means you won’t need to use them!
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| Remove PAIR System and install the fancy block off plates. | ||
| Almost done, stripped a bolt removing one of the PAIR connectors. . … Done …  |
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| HID Headlight upgrade. | ||
| I have the kit and with the front all apart I might as well do this too.
… Not sure I can use the kit that I have. It’s really an auto-kit an the wires are simply too long for me to hide. |
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| Swap out BlueSeas fuse block for a smaller more compact and integrated unit. (The FuzeBlock) | ||
| Have parts in stock, ready to do. . |
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| Install Aux Plugs for heated gear | ||
| Installed, needs to be wired. . |
Some photos of my work in progress:
Entire Album is here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mdisher/FJR33000MileMainteance#
Will update this post as things progress.
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