Jonathan’s Mindless Blog

I finally completed the installation of my new GPS mount onto my motorcycle. Thanks to my Sis’ for the early birthday present. I took several of the pictures the other day in the daylight, but it’s been so hot I’ve just stayed inside and only gone out at night. It’s 10pm here and it’s still 88F and 60% humidity out, freakin’ oppressively hot to me! I just finished up the install and the final pictures are with the flash, but I tried not to make it too awful. Here’s the finished product:

Thanks to dad’s suggestion, I only drilled one hole and used one of the existing mounting holes, which made it a much more simple ordeal. I used drilled out brass nuts as standoffs to support the plastic and 1.5″ stainless steel screws to do the attachment. Also used some loc-tite thread locker to make sure those buggers don’t rattle out unintentionally. Now to finish the power cable… Right now, the forcast for this weekend is looking fantastic with a high on Saturday of only 89. I feel a day-long road trip coming on.
Oh, and I like the integration of flickr and wordpress and I can’t stand hitting limits of free services after only 2 days, so I’m now a paying flickr member! I have UNLIMITED bandwidth, which means I have no excuse for not posting lots of boring pictures. I think I’ll start with this one:

OK, enough for tonight, I need to update some other pages on the site and prepare myself to mow the yard in the morning.

Ok, I’ve finally got a Flickr account set up (here’s my flickr page) and have uploaded a couple of pics of my motorcycle. I have a series of photos from my GPS bracket installation I did yesterday, but I need to sort them out and pick the relevant ones to upload. I also need to get out the old windshield and do a old to new comparison on them. This is a pic of the new windshield installed

I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to add the cool sidebar thing to show a few of the recent photos on the blog page… haven’t completely figured that one out yet.

It’s summer and the temp is up along with the humidity, today was mid 90’s and it felt like over 50% rel humidity. Just muggy and miserable, reminding me of why I wanted to be in Alaska this summer. Tomorrow is slated to hit 96! One good thing that comes to Nashville in summer is the Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman. We went this week to hear the Del McCoury band play and had a wonderful time. The band is great with only 3 microphones on stage, and they move around to fit the songs and solos. It’s really nice to have a group that can entertain as well as they play.

The Jamie Cullum concert is this coming weekend and I’m really looking forward to that one. I really do have a rediculously wide taste in music.

Can I just say out loud THANK YOU KEVIN O’MARA! If it weren’t for your proclaiming the greatness of flickr and wordpress I wouldn’t be doing any of this Thanks for the html link too!