Awesome ride to work, house progress

Wow, what a fantastic ride to work this morning. It was raining, a bit cool, and traffic was backed up for miles. Normally, in the states, this would not have been a good ride, but here, in Scotland, where I can legally lane split and ride in between cars and trucks made it a AWESOME ride. I had a grin on my face from ear to ear. Oh, and it gets better. Many times, cars will actually move over and give you more room! I'm pretty sure I've arrived in biker heaven. Want more proof? On just a normal ride to or from work, when I arrive, my tires are plenty warm, and the rubber on the edge of my tires is all scuffed. It's just wonderful how much lean angle I get riding to and from work. I'll take a picture sometime this week. On Friday, I'm getting a new sticky Pirelli Dragon Corsa rear tire. Wo Ho!

Dena and I got a lot accomplished on the house over the weekend. I cleaned the garage, so I can actually work on the bikes. I did manage to bleed the brakes on my Ninja, and they are better, but still not great. Our new bed came in during the middle of last week, so we're actually sleeping on a bed, instead of on the floor. It shouldn't make that much of a difference, but I'm sleeping a lot better. We managed to unpack a few more boxes. I've found that all our lamps can be easily converted with just a 240V bulb and some new plugs. On Sunday, Dena and I did some yard work, and started the process of grooming the back yard hedges into a somewhat defined shape. We also painted her upstairs Art Room a very bright green. It literally dried to Kawasaki lime green!

Saturday night, I played with my phone a little more. The HTC S710 is really brilliant. I've been a little bummed that my company SIM card has the internet deactivated, but the phone does have Wi-Fi, so I play with it at hotspots around town, and at home on our wireless network. I was trying to send MMS messages, but I stumbled on to setting up email accounts. I was able to have email from my Yahoo, Gmail, and my work email all pushed to my phone. I wasn't on Internet Explorer, my email was being pushed directly to my phone. Maybe this isn't too big of a deal, as the phone can do all this, but it was really easy to set up. What makes email and texting really nice is the slide out keyboard. I can also edit Word, Excel, Power Point, and read PDF files. I'm just impressed with how much can be done on mobile phones, in some fashion, that laptops could 10 years ago.