I may be all about motorcycles, but I love to grab a few nice days out on the lake as well. I’m just as adamant about getting the proper Boating Education as I am about taking a Motorcycle Safety Course. I haven’t had an opportunity to spend much time on the lake this year, but in a way I’m sort of thankful for that. I’ve heard of too many accidents occurring this year involving boats, and we’re only half way through the summer.

Just last weekend I saw what happens when a jetski collides with a boat. What’s left of the jetski is sitting behind the dealership in ruins. The boat operator was arrested for operating under the influence of alcohol. The jetski was sitting still in the water, and the boat operator ran right over it. Thankfully the jetski operator abandoned the jetski as he saw the boat approaching.

Knowing how I feel about taking the proper safety precautions, I think the following commercial says it all.

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I’m not sure how things went with the bike or what time they left because I slept right through it all.  I passed out around 7:30pm, and even the sound of Guitar Hero didn’t bother me.  Normally I have to have total quiet to sleep.  I found myself waking up around 3am.  As soon as I stumbled into the kitchen I found I still had a mess to clean up.  Hubby didn’t take it upon himself to put up any of the leftover food, so I ended up throwing away what would have been a nice meal of leftovers for Hubby to take to work today.  Oh well.  I guess I should have taken care of that before I faked a migraine.

He thought it would be a great idea if I cooked dinner and we all had a fun evening of hanging out and working on the bike. Just great. Now I have to cook, clean the house spotless (dude’s wife is a neat freak, I am not), and figure out what I’m going to do with the dog tonight while they’re here. I can put him in our bedroom because our weird house has 1 bathroom which is accessed only through our bedroom. I can’t put him in the guest room because the bike’s in there. Dude’s wife is terrified of dogs, even my sweet innocent but will lick you to death bulldog.

At least she said she’ll bring the wine and dessert. The dessert I’ll go for (especially if it’s cheesecake), but Hubby never drinks wine, and I hardly ever do. The stuff gives me a headache, but every time we go to this woman’s house she pulls out a bottle of wine. I seriously wonder if she has one of those wine of the month memberships. I might pick up some beer for the boys, but do they really need to be drinking when they’re doing something as important and delicate as syncing the carbs?

Yes I just used delicate and a bike part in the same sentence.

At least dinner will be easy. When pressed for time pull out the crock pot and make a roast. Luckily I made roasts so often in this house (hey it’s the best thing I make) I almost always have one in the freezer, and right now I do. I’m going to throw my roast in the crock pot and scrub the house as much as I can before I lose what little energy I have left and pass out. If I don’t get everything as spotless as little miss neat freak would like, I’ll just smear some grease around and blame it on the bike parts scattered across my living room right now.

I’m not saying we didn’t buy any bike parts, we just didn’t buy a whole lot this week. We’ve been waiting to get the front forks back, and we picked those up yesterday. Getting the blocks welded to the subframe has taken longer because Hubby keeps rescheduling. That should be done next weekend though.

Overall things are coming together nicely. Hopefully in a week or two I’ll be able to take photos of it pre-paint stage. Oh yeah, we’ll be rockin’ a rat bike for awhile, but it’ll be our unique rat bike finally customized the way we want it.

I’m happy for him because he really needs the bike for transportation. Just like us he can’t afford the costs of commuting back and forth to work, and the bike has drastically changed that.

CA I hope you get to feeling better real soon, and I’m glad everything worked out for you.

Now he just has to wait 2 weeks for his arm to heal. He had his surgery yesterday, and everything went well. He’ll be in a cast for 2 weeks, and then he’ll be all good again. Thank goodness he’s smart and wears his gear at all times!