8th graders, and a night ride.

YIKES!!!! Did the job fair today for 8th grade students. It was done in a large warehouse, and the students were bussed in. It was non stop all day, groups of about 25 8th graders would show up at my table every 15 minutes. This went on for several hours. It was hectic, I hope my voice doesn't run out tomorrow when I have more of the same. All in all, I am grateful for the opportunity, obtaining good paying skilled jobs doesn't come easy these days. I stressed to the students that classes they take in school are applicable for careers in the power industry, and how science, physics, and mathematical concepts are needed.

Here is one of the groups getting ready to launch.


Here's a group at my table, good kids, with a future ahead of them.
For the Biko techs, afterwards I went down and talked to my bike shop guys. I ordered a Titec h-bar for my Trek Hard Tail, gearing up for snow riding, making plans. This bar will give me more body positions when riding snow trails. I need a shim also to convert my 32.8 mm to the 25.4 diameter of the H-bar.
Now afterwards I was in the mood for some bike wrench time with my ponies. So I put together my old "Liberty bike" a Steel Hybrid, I haven't rode since March of 2006. Now without going into painful detail, I will share briefly why I call this bike the "Liberty Bike" In 2004 I met a lady online in a AOL chat room, a relationship grew and after a couple of visits she quit her job, sold her house, and I flew out to Arizona to drive her back to live with me and the boys, along with her large birds, three cats and two fat dogs. Before I made it back to town I realized I made the worst mistake of my life.
Her birds would scream day in and day out, cats would run all over the place at night, and across me when I was sleeping, the dogs would start barking for no reason for hours. Deb, the Internet lady, would stay home and chain smoke and talk to people online continuously. She hated my boys and made life miserable for them. She complained if I would bicycle and leave her after I came home from work. My bicycling drifted to almost no riding. Ok ok, I am going into too much detail. So finally she decided to leave this place in March of 2006, my first long bicycle ride was the next day, and was on this bike. What a feeling that was.



Tonight I did some night riding with this bike after I put parts back on and tuned and lubed. Rode up and visited with my papa, he is quiet lately, and I can tell, he is sad. Lost his mate, my mom, this year, and is going through different feelings, I can tell.

My 900 lumen night lighting system works well.

Ok, I gotta finish some things and wrap this day up.

Hope your day went well

RideON,

DAve.