Risky Robby's Journal

Interesting Craig's List Post
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/rnr/734069587.html

Since I've been working on my scooters, I've been more aware of the motorized bicycles. Here's one on Craig's list, street legal, with no insurance or motorcycle license required. They claim 175mi/gallon. This one looks to much like a Harley wannabe, and stylistically I prefer the ones built on cruiser bikes that look like retro 1910 type motorcycles. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/mcy/726101778.html

Goodbye Free WiFi
The company that wired the city is pulling the plug tomorrow. The service never generated enough advertising to make it profitable. And me, I just bought a wi-fi modem, which will soon be useless, so these last few months of free internet have actually been expensive.

One Less Issue In my Life.
I lent my girlfriend a lot of money back in 2006. It was supposed to be short term, and I've asked her many times to pay me back, but she always had other priorities. It's been wearing on me, because in my world, that's not cool. I've always been very generous with her. Well she brought it up today at lunch, and says she'll be able to pay me back in July. I'm kinda relieved, not so much about the money, but because she's doing the right thing, and I don't feel like I'm being played. I won't ever lend her a large sum of money again, though.

Editor's note: Robby is getting creepy anonomo's telling him that he has obviously has "issues discussing intimate details with your girlfriend" and thus. he is creepy.
That's just not fair, he clearly wrote that he's discussed this loan with his girlfriend to the point of being worn out, but ultimately it will be resolved without anger, threats and drama. Robby thinks that this anonymo actually is what she perceives him to be, and owes him an apology and a "ball adjustment".

Automotive Update
I nervously drove my truck to the radiator shop today, eyes on the temperature gauge, with one stop for water. You know that if the engine gets too hot, it's ruined, so a more cautious person would have the truck towed. Len will have to install a new radiator Monday, as the new design radiators are made with plastic and can't be boiled out and re-cored like the copper ones of old.

I brought my bike along and rode the distance back in spite of my bad knee. It actually may have helped my knee to work it, but I'll know later as my body acts up late at night and sometimes early morning.

Lexie's main journal popartagenda has been suspended, and I got an anonymous
comment wanting information, but I don't know anything about it. I know that someone in her circle has recently been hassling (again) crystalplumage. Lexie put her all into the popartagenda journal, and I'm sure this is hard for her.

Editors note: Robby f**ked his knee up riding his bicycle so far on Saturday. He'll tough it out today, however, and will hope for improvement by tomorrow. No more bike riding, but how will he get to the radiator shop tomorrow?

Old Man Finance
I'm distributing my Dad's estate, and in this electronic age, his stocks are in the form of those fancy engraved paper certificates. I brought them down to Scottrade, and the broker says he sees paper certificates very rarely, and only from the old timers. Most of them were in his safe deposit box, but I found one certificate for 480 shares of Sierra Pacific Resources in some of his papers at home, and now we found 24 series E paper savings bonds from 1979 here in his house. He bought them for $37.50 back in the day, and put them away. They're been drawing interest all these years and now worth over $200 each.

I'm The Only Risky Robby There Is.
Google it and see.

Current Mood: triumphant

Long Distance Information, Give Me Memphis Tennesee
Help me find the party tryin' to get in touch with me....

Someone called my cell phone from area code 901. I didn't pick up, and it had to be wrong number, unless it was Elvis wanting his icon back.

Global Cooling? The Sun Has Been Unusually Inactive
"In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period, from approximately 1650 to 1700, occurred during the middle of a little ice age on Earth that lasted from as early as the mid-15th century to as late as the mid-19th century"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609124551.htm

Stone Cold Jesus
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/zip/714446060.html

I'm always seeing stuff like this that I want, but know I can't have.

Screwhead Obsessives Spilling Out Of NYC
Those retarded, obsessed Rev Jen posts are now showing up in The San Francisco Craig's List. I e-mailed the perpetrator and notified them that they are now on watch.

Cell Phones Popping Popcorn..Ouch..My Brain...........

Editors note: It's a fake video, cell phones can't do that.

A Tiny Sliver Of Self Awareness
I had a really productive week, implementing a plan to recycle years worth of electronic scrap, and getting credit on account from a local auction company that picked it all up. It was a lot of hard work, but it came off without a hitch, and the warehouse is clear. As soon as the scrap was loaded, orders began coming in. I should be dancing, but I'm pissed that traffic was bad last night and I missed making an appointment by 5PM.

This morning I was up by 6AM, and I upgraded the Norton AntiVirus on this laptop, which was a pain in the ass, and I'm watering the lawn. Later today, I have a scheme to have my g/f's old worn out Acura (that I couldn't sell)
fail smog, so we can "retire" it and get $1000 from the state.

I'm always pushing myself, demanding perfection, underestimating how difficult something is. I beat myself up over minor failures, and conversely, don't appreciate major successes. I probably have exactly the right work ethic and personality for small business.

Scooter Update
I had a motorcycle mechanic guy look at the scooters, and he said probably the reason the most complete one wouldn't kickstart is that it needs an ignition switch to complete the circuit. It needs a few other parts, but they can come off the parts bike. The only thing I need to buy to get it running is a choke. Later, it will need guages and lights and some body pieces to be ready to ride.

The second scooter needs a few parts as well, but I can get them cheap on the internet. The third scooter will be really stripped when I'm done, but it will have a partial engine, transmission and gas tank, and someday could be used to build a motorized bicycle.

On a lighter note, I'm eating cold steak and drinking cold coffee for lunch. That's just what the cowboys used to eat, but it's not very good.

The Undemocratic Party Revealed.
Obama is scrambling for enough Democratic elite (super delegates) to pledge for him today so he can pretend that the 16 or so delegates he will gather tonight from the last two primaries have put him over the top and made him the nominee.

He wants the perception that he was nominated by popular vote, when in truth the Democratic party invented the super-delegate sham 20 years ago, so the people voting in the primary elections wouldn't have control of who is nominated. What an irony, that the "Democratic" party is less democratic than the Republican party, which lets the primary vote alone decide the nominee.

Scooter Update
I've been wrenching on my little scooters, with limited success. I got all the locking gas caps off, without a key! I finessed them off in time with another key that sort of fit the locks. I should have been a crook. The one battery that I have is tested and charged. I took all the body panels off.

I tried to kickstart the most complete one, using starting fluid in place of gasoline, but it's missing the choke, and would not turn over. I was looking on-line for a replacement choke, and I can get an electric one for $29, but the original was mechanical, I think. The whole replacement carb, including choke is only $69. There are performance carbs availablr also.

The wildest thing is that an entire new 125cc engine, complete with carb, that will fit exactly into the scooter is available for about $250 That would really make the scooter fly, and would turn it into a serious commute vehicle.

Bill Clinton Explains What's Happening Behind The Scenes

I just needed change, but I had entered Hell.

It was supposed to be a quick in and out. I had a dozen eggs, and two registers were open. A few people in each line, but soon I realized that the asian woman wearing bad skin and one of those bluetooth telephone headsets was returning multiple little boxes of allergy medicine, soon requiring manager approval and receipt signatures.

The second line was my salvation, but the crazy cashier was swiping a customer's impossibly small keyring card, over and over, to no avail. Then the muzak started playing on the store's PA system. It was that shit band from the 70's...America...and their shit hit "Horse With No Name...."

In the desert, you can remember your name, 'cause their ain't no one for to give you no pain...........la, la, la la la la la, la la la.....

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: America "Horse With No Name?

No rest for the wicked, no rest for the weary!
Afetr(sic) a busy morning, I'm now having trouble getting going this afternoon. I opened up all the doors and windows to allow the negative ions inside. (negative ions are the good ones, go figure)

I'm changing into shorts and have just started on a venti iced coffee. That's about all I have to say about that.

98.1 degrees at Noon
I am 100% serious.

Editors note: (98.6 degrees) You, too, can watch the temperature in Fremont along with our hero.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=94539

He has decided to close down and go home if the temperature reaches 100 degrees again today.

Editors note: 100 degrees again at 12:45 PM Adios