Speaking of my Father-in-law, he did finally decide he’s going to do a little Las Vegas travel at the end of the summer. We had talked about going on a Vegas Run later in the year after our bike’s put back together, but he finally decided he’s doing it with or without us. A guy he works with has been wanting to make a cross country trip, so that guy is going with him. You don’t know how bad I want to go! The longest trip I’ve made on a bike? I think to Deal’s Gap, and that’s only about 2 1/2 hours from the house. I really want to make a cross country trip, and I really want to go to the Salt Flats!

Happy Father’s day to all you father’s out there! I’ve had a very weird weekend, and in the midst of all of it I completely forgot it was Father’s Day! Thankfully my dad is on vacation, so we’ve already planned our Father’s Day festivities with him later this week.

I was supposed to pick up my Father-in-law’s present yesterday though, and I completely forgot about it. I slept through half of the day yesterday, so Hubby made other plans while I was asleep. I think I’m going to change those plans though. I was just looking through a furniture catalog I receive monthly, and I spotted a really cute table lamp I think I want to order for my father-in-law.

I know most men don’t care much about furniture, but my father-in-law loves to buy unique furniture for his shop at home. He’s got an awesome desk in the corner of his workshop, and the lamp I found is a motorcycle lamp.  It would look great sitting on his work shop desk.  I’ll have to ask Hubby for his opinion, but if he agrees I think I’ll just have to tell my father-in-law today that his present is on it’s way.

I couldn’t find the exact lamp online, but here’s one that’s similar to it.  This one looks pretty cheaply made though.

It’s a fact that more people are looking for ways to save money on gas. A lot of people are turning to motorcycles. All of us who ride know we can go just as far on a $12 in a bike than $60 or more in a car. More people turning to motorcycles for transportation also means crashes involving motorcycles are on the rise.

The video below is from Arkansas, but I still think it’s beneficial to everyone looking to purchase a motorcycle to combat gas prices. They give some important tips for staying safe while riding.

I know now that our motorcycle is out of commission for the next couple of months we’re really feeling the pinch. I’ve had to cut out a lot of extras to be able to afford the extra gas in our Blazer. Before if I needed to run out to get something like an HDMI switch we’d take the bike and throw it under the seat or in the backpack. Now I have to hold off on single item purchases and make a trip to the store when I need a bunch of things. I just can’t afford to run out in the Blazer for every little thing.

Just a heads up for those of you trying to leave comments. My comments are still messed up. There’s something screwy in my database, and I haven’t been able to fix it. For some reason the only comments getting through are the ones that say stuff like “Find the best wrinkle cream here”.

Comments are there, I just have to go into my database and manually approve each one through phpMyAdmin. The spam comments aren’t being caught by Akismet either. They’re call coming through as regular comments and actually showing up for me to moderate. Since these are the only ones getting through, for now I’m going to disable ALL links in comments. I’ll continue to manually approve comments until I get the problem fixed, so I’m not closing all comments just yet.