Reasons to be cheerful

[Bass]

Getting out of Auckland.
Have already outlived every male in the previous generation of my family and coming to resent every hour of whatever I have left, wasted in Auckland traffic.
Also, current house on an arterial route. 60 tonners shaking the building and traffic noise 22 hours per day.
Bought a nice house in a short cul-de-sac in Whakatane.

[James Deuce]

I still have nothing. Not one reason. Someone steal my bike. I enjoy a good rant.

[HEsch]

New gear due to arrive today. An obscene amount of new gear. My bank account is crying, but I'm excited.

[eldog]

Getting out of Auckland.
Have already outlived every male in the previous generation of my family and coming to resent every hour of whatever I have left, wasted in Auckland traffic.
Also, current house on an arterial route. 60 tonners shaking the building and traffic noise 22 hours per day.
Bought a nice house in a short cul-de-sac in Whakatane.

A tinnie house?

[eldog]

New gear due to arrive today. An obscene amount of new gear. My bank account is crying, but I'm excited.

And it's not Xmas yet

[HEsch]

And it's not Xmas yet

Pretty sure this is xmas, haha... New top box, new goretex, sorted. Next up, first (6000km) service so Suzi will be good as new.
I also figured out how to get to my one-Sunday-a-month gig with the bike, instead of the car (I have to take specific tools/gear with me - most fits in the top box, the rest I can borrow from the client).

[caseye]

Getting out of Auckland.
Have already outlived every male in the previous generation of my family and coming to resent every hour of whatever I have left, wasted in Auckland traffic.
Also, current house on an arterial route. 60 tonners shaking the building and traffic noise 22 hours per day.
Bought a nice house in a short cul-de-sac in Whakatane.

Hey mate, well done! Gunna miss those Thursdays with the ol Bmer out front though.

[eldog]

Hey mate, well done! Gunna miss those Thursdays with the ol Bmer out front though.

thought you were missing it already

you missed a really good one last week.

Bloody glad I went, still cheerful

learnt - mistakes can be made anytime, sometimes you get a second chance
being pig headed doesn't mean your always right

learnt others have been in the same situation too. - lesson learnt.

bloody glad I made the stop - so interesting. good to find decent people are out there.

still cheerful about the ride as a whole

trifle does the trick

[HEsch]

New gear arrived - ace! Little bit of loose stitching on one cuff of the jacket. No biggie but given the $$$$$$$$ spent on it I went back to the company I bought it from. They have no more stock to replace it with so offered a 20% refund on the jacket. Wowee! Still a bloody spency piece of kit but that's excellent.
I definitely recommend Motocard for prompt replies and excellent customer service, despite being across the world and Spanish (so English isn't their first language).

[Jeeper]

New gear arrived - ace! Little bit of loose stitching on one cuff of the jacket. No biggie but given the $$$$$$$$ spent on it I went back to the company I bought it from. They have no more stock to replace it with so offered a 20% refund on the jacket. Wowee! Still a bloody spency piece of kit but that's excellent.
I definitely recommend Motocard for prompt replies and excellent customer service, despite being across the world and Spanish (so English isn't their first language).

You are happy with the vendor and recommend them for gear?

[Oakie]

Mrs Oakie is making me a Thai mussel dish for tea with some nice bread and a very pleasant gewurtztraminer to go with it.

[HEsch]

You are happy with the vendor and recommend them for gear?

Yes, my email queries were all answered within the day. I had the option to return the jacket or receive the refund seeing they could not replace it. Product on sale to begin with (and far cheaper landed in NZ than buying here) but another 20% off makes an even better buy - I can fix the stitching. Even if I couldn't, $10 at the local repair shop would do it.
Thumbs up to Motocard.

[F5 Dave]

I don't care if it overcast over. I decided it was summer.

Food without a face. Well not one I saw.

Fuck it was delicious.
BBQ. Fabulous.

[Laava]

We came home on saturday to find a quails egg laid right beside the middle of our ranchslider. We had no idea how it had got there and assumed it may have been our cat or a child of some sort. Anyway, just now, a pair of quail came down to our door while we were sitting there and while the male stood guard chirping, the female wandered over, squtted down, and laid and egg. Then they just wandered off! We have been wondering if we have been chosen to whangai their little ones.
Highly entertaining and we have been laughing about it for an hour or so already!

[ellipsis]

...they didn't really think it through, did they...and then there's the ginga moggy...not well planned at all...