My attempts at following the podcasters has taught me two things... 

1. In general, most of them are pretty disorganized and they all communicate stuff in completely different (and sometimes strange) ways.
2. I'm way too busy to be able to keep track of them all with any kind of regularity that would be useful to anyone.

So... I'm going back to what I can handle...  Motorcycles, Jeeps, work, photography, friends, gadgets, and pretty much whatever else I have time for and/or feel like posting.  Call it a "friend's blog" or whatever...  In the long run, Google will find it all, so I'm not going to try to "push" my content or anything.  It is what it is and that's just the way it's gonna be.

What's been going on?

Good question...  unfortunately, a lot.

I got another motorcycle, a blue 2008 Kawasaki KLR650.  Sorry there's no link, I don't feel like digging through the Kawi site right now.  Go Google it.  Anyway, it's a cool "little" bike and much easier commuting than the FJR.  Don't get me wrong, I love the "Feej", but it's big and heavy.  Not meant for city traffic and parking on the street.  The K does a much better job with that.  It's light, simple and has very good suspension.  It tears up around town.  Not a ton of power, but enough to get the job done.

I broke the Jeep...  repeatedly.  I killed three universal joints.  One on a front axle, two on the rear drive shaft.  All have been replaced, but it's just not "right" any more.  The front differential is a bit out of whack and needs to be reset.  The rear drive shaft needs to be replaced, but I'm not doing that until I can get a "belly-up" skid and move the transmission higher (that's on the way).  The shocks are shot and the steering stabilizer is wasted (those are also all on the way).  Once I get that stuff taken care of (most of which I can do myself), I'll be getting the drive shaft and front diff taken care of.

The wife is sickly.  Nothing "major", but it's irritating her pretty badly.  Kind of a summer cold thing we think.  Worse than allergies, but not full on flu.  She's getting better though.

Jim and I have finally managed to get together and do some planning for the ride out to Colorado and back.  But that's a separate post.  Next time, perhaps.

Later!