Passage
Well, we’ve finally gone and done it. Yes, friends, 849 Laurel Avenue is officially up for sale. Autumn and I decided to try selling it buy owner. A realtor (why is my spell checker telling me that realtor is supposed to be spelled with a capital “R”? Bah!) who is trying to sell a house [...]
Experiments
OK, I started playing with two new things at once: Apple’s Aperture and RAW format. I gotta say that both are blowing me away. After some initial trepidation with both, I dove right in. I can see an immediate difference in my photos. Seriously. And now that I discovered the Flickr plugin for Aperture, there [...]
Andersonville
Over the weekend, Giles and I drove around some of the Georgia sites near Macon. Our first stop, after a rest to recover from Saturday night’s imbibing, we headed, Giles in Passat and I on my Nighthawk, down Highway 49 toward Andersonville National Historic Site and Cemetery. 49 was fabulous: straight roads through farmland and [...]
Licensed
After an interminable wait with some of my closest friends at the DMV, I took my riding test today and passed. The test was not as hard as the sun was hot, and both the examiner and I were happy it was a short test. I am now officially licensed in the state of Georgia [...]
Honda CB750
With just over 3400 miles, my new 2002 Honda CB750 “Nighthawk” sparkled in the parking lot as I arrived at ValuCycle yesterday afternoon for delivery. After a short ride to make sure it was acceptable, I signed the check and was on my way. In fact, the short mile ride was enough to convince me [...]