Last weekend my new hobby arrived. I purchased a chainmail kit. I decided I needed something to me busy while I am just hanging out. I have spend a little time learning how to weave the chains and the difference styles of mail. So far I have made some small squares and I am working on finishing a box chain that can be worn as a waist chain. I am hoping to make a small chainmail shirt to wear under my costume for WAR this year.
January 31, 2012
Hoping for a new ride…
So as some of you may already know my bike has been in the shop for more months in 2011 than I have ridden it. The problem is that after taking it into a shop for a standard maint and oil change, the bike started stalling when cold. The bike is still in the shop while the engineer try to figure it out. At this point, I don’t know if I will ever get it back in working condition. I am resolved that it’s time for a new ride and have started looking at some new bikes and scooters.
I am impressed with the bergman 650 exec, but the price is a bit much. I am also thinking of waiting on the new BMW scooters. I am not sure I will ever want to purchase another Piaggio/Vespa or Aprilla scooter or motorcycle again because of the length of time this has taken. I sort of feel that if this was a car, it would have been scrapped and replaced with a brand new one, but motorcycles and scooters don’t seem to carry the same level of customer service as cars.
Lost YubiKey
So I have not posted in a while because somewhere over the holidays I lost my Yubikey. Fortunately, wordpress is so well designed that all I had to do was login and rename the yubikey plug-in and it automatically reverted back to normal authentication.
Kudos developers.
