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Don, not everyone understands the feeling of wanting to sleep beside your wife at night. I have always had the day shift jobs with the on call pager mixed in until a few years back. I ended up with a great plant job, one site not service calls all over town, not sales trips or meetings. I average about 10 weeks a year off between the way the scheduled runs with flex time and I always take my over-time as time off. The flaw is the 2 weeks out of 5 that I am basically working opposite shift to what Lori works. The perfect job in all other ways except the time away from that very important person. I am with you, more as we age, we miss the one person that for all these years has been there supporting every step we make.... right or the many wrong steps. Money makes the world go round but it does not make the heart beat. I pick the time with the love if it was me.

It never is right and it is never enough The lady who killed my friend Jana on his motorcycle was sentenced to basically time served, she was out and free before the end of the day that she was convicted. She was drunk and stoned and under suspension from driving for driving impaired. The sentence was appealed by the prosecution and she was sentenced to 18 months, I believe, in the end

I do not intend to be insensitive or anything here...... Watching the news this evening and they are doing a story on tornadoes wrecking an area that has been disaster area caused by tornadoes in the past. The story says that the tornado hit a mobile home park unfortunately killing one person in their home. Can anyone tell me why the local governments permit mobile homes to be placed in these so-called tornado alleys? Would a solid construction home on a concrete foundation not be the "correct" construction method in such an area?

And the great thing is.... in Vancouver you could just forecast Rain every day and be correct more often than not.

I could be incorrect but I think the white spacers are optional but I added like 3/4 inch spacers in on my 86

This is why when I travel in the US I always use my cc for as much as possible. I usually carry a bit of cash but with bank fees for "purchasing" the cash and the exchange it is a better deal to just put it on the cc and pay it off on return. Oh and the best deal is Starbucks...... load up a Starbucks card in Canada for your coffee stops in the US and they charge you a even cost $ for $.

My guess for who and where would be 1. Canadian Red Cross, I know they can supply many mobility assisting medical devises. 2. Would have to be Air Liquide, they are Canada wide and are able to supply compressed gasses and equipment. PS. I will be in Winnipeg 3rd week of May for my sons Convocation.

Very sorry to hear, thoughts are with you. We have two young friends over in China teaching now and my oldest sons' girlfriend will be heading in September to join them.

should have asked me 3 months ago

It was awful, we had a week where it was near freezing and everything. Hope it is brightening up wherever you are also.

My condolences, I can not imagine the hurt. Thoughts are with you and your family.

OK I gotta say it...... Canadian tax dollars at work. Back to that age old question..... why did the government pay $4,200 for a toilet seat.... they bought one of these to make the toilet seat.

FYI to @Vonwolf and @KISA these fairings are made of ABS plastic.... same material that a plumber would pipe the drains in your home with. So a trip to hardware store you can buy small can of ABS Cement inexpensively and if needed you can find a plastic supply store and buy thin sheets of ABS to make clean solid last for ever repairs.

If a person found a rubber gasket supply company, we used to have a place called Goodall Rubber, they sold O-rings and such to industry. They also used to sell make your own O-ring material. You could buy 4 feet of material and a glue to put it together. Maybe such a place in Winterpeg? On that note I will be in the cold city in May to see my son receive his Masters Degree from U of M.

Sorry I do not have a picture of my first bike.... but I do have the story for it. I was 19 going on 20.... I was working a second job to pay for the latest of my exploded motors in my 1967 VW Beetle when I met the head waitress at the facility I was at. She was a very attractive blonde gal, so after a while and against upper managements request (my oldest brother) I asked the girl for a date.... much to my surprise she said yes.... we hit it off and continued dating. I got the VW back to rubber in two gears and drive able. I told her one day that I was thinking of selling the VW and maybe buy a van or a motorcycle. She thought the motorcycle idea was great but did remind me that we did get this thing called Winter and a motorcycle may not be a good year round concept. A month or two went by and one morning I got a call at work that on her way to work my girlfriend had been in an accident and was in hospital with minor injuries..... after her recovery and lots of insurance company hassles it was determined that the school bus she had hit had run a stop sign and was 100% at fault and settled with her. A few days later she showed up to my work with a friend of hers following her on a brand new Honda CB400A. She handed me a helmet a leather jacket and a set of keys including keys to her apartment. Hmmm I said....not bad. Oh did I say she then drove away in my beloved VW! Well I had never ridden a motorcycle but at the end of the day I had to get home.... learned how to ride that day..... and never dropped it either. I am not totally stupid...... on her next birthday I made her a cake with an engagement ring mounted on the top.... we got married the next year on her birthday... 33 years ago. That bike got sold for part of our first house down payment but 2 mortgages and 4 children later I am back at it.

@friesman I think about $35 each way Brian, bike and rider. I use the US ferry systems more than the Canadian ones so it has been at least a year since I was on a BC ferry. Even with the value of the Canadian dollar being low it is still worth traveling the US as over all costs are that much less for food, fuel and lodging.

This afternoon while I was out enjoying a beautiful sunny ride I had stopped for coffee and when I left the coffee shop my dash was lit up but no speedo no fuel bars or trip meter. Got home, shut it off for a minute then restarted it.... everything back. Ideas ? Anyone else seen this on a second gen?

Yes Kitimat did get pounded. Victoria and what we call The Lower Mainland are very special places. Victoria has Olympic Mountains in Washington State on one side and the Coast Mountains on the other side with Vancouver between us. We are just in one of those weather pockets that stays mild. We do get hit from time to time but not often. Kitimat is 1,500 Kilometers north and west of us and has nothing but ocean and Alaska close by.

Only thing I have ever notices is if you do not put a space between them you can only do like 3 then it does the code then starts smiles again for 3 and so on. No big thing

This is why nobody can understand Canadian Winters Sorry to all in the locks of the cold.... I live in the sunny picture.

my math.... all that it is.... seems that you got it @ about $0.78...... there may have been "service" charges. do you remember when "service" was what banks and shops provided

Ok me and the kids used Frostwire after Limewire got the boot from the net..... I just browsed Frostwire and I did not see an artist I recognized... not that I am a great music buff of anything new.

I see no humor here... this is serious sh#t..... I think we should petition to have it moved back.... I mean there are folks out there that do not subscribe to J & H thread that need to know this stuff.

My cousins son.....

So if one was to pull apart the carbs to clean them and service them to bring them at least back to new where would one get a "kit" to do this.