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Back in the saddle again...

24 July 2005
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Okay, the Bullet is back home, running and all indications suggest that the problems are solved. The engine wasn't racing as it had been, seems to start fine, and ran about as well as it might be expected to run when I brought it home, Saturday.

I hope to take it for a longer run around the backroads perhaps this week, perhaps...

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Movies and film

09 July 2005
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Here's another bit of expanded musing I originally posted on Ian Adams' East-end Blog in response to his widening the cultural input from merely books to all forms...

Last movies seen in a theatre: The Emperor's New Clothes, part of the Collingwood Cinema...

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Live 8 - already forgotten?

03 July 2005
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We watched some of Live 8 on TV last night, before we went out to watch the Canada Day fireworks down at Harbourview Park (postponed by a day due to high winds).

It was an interesting, entertaining series of concerts, with some very good performances and some moving moments (Annie Lennox's song was the most emotional of all)....

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Back in the shop

02 July 2005
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Went out to get the Bullet Friday, Canada Day. Seemed auspicious to be riding it home on our national holiday.

John had gone through most of the box of parts I had ordered from The US Enfield distributor: a couple of hundred dollars already. He fixed and cleaned the carb, replaced both...

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Bullet Chronicle part 2

27 June 2005
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Spent four hours yesterday cleaning the bits I could safely get at - drained the carb and removed the bowl to clean it, removed the air filter and cleaned the box, removed the sump/engine air and oil exhaust filter and cleaned it, then tried to remember how it all went back together.

Found a few things not quite right: the intake...

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Bullet Blues

26 June 2005
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After a year away from the saddle, I bought myself another motorcycle. No, wait, another Enfield Bullet. That's not just another bike.

I had a Bullet 10 years ago. I loved the bike, especially its classic British appearance, but we parted...

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Book choices and playing tag

25 June 2005
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I posted the original of the following on Ian Adams' East-End Blog. Adams is challenging readers to form a 'Collingwood Book Club'. He asked five people to respond to his categories (read below) and then send out the challenge to five others (tag). My tag-ees are: Rick Garner, Jim Collis,...

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More greed from the CEOS

07 June 2005
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In my previous blog on CEO greed, I wrote about how corporate CEOs and other executives were siphoning off their unfair share - in great volume - of company money while killing jobs in Canada and the USA. And the...

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Yard sailing season is upon us

28 May 2005
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Early this morning, Susan and I went to Thornbury for a big fundraiser-yard sale for the Grey-Bruce Habitat for Humanity group. Normally, I'm not really big on yard (garage or trunk) sales... they're too often just collections of used, unwanted junk. I can go on eBay for that, if I want... but this event promised "a...

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Healthy Travelleing in Mexico

28 May 2005
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Healthy traveling in Mexico: Ten basic tips for a healthy, problem-free trip down south. Originally published in Discover Mexico magazine, January, 2005.

The most common ailments travelers to Mexico are likely to encounter are rarely life-threatening, mostly annoying and sometimes embarrassing. It’s possible to avoid...

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