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BMW Rally St. Paul

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Glenn has made it onsite at the rally. Makes me wish I was there seeing all the beautiful bikes and meeting people with not only a biking enthusiasm but BMW enthusiasts.  Looks like Glenn has his site up. He has mentioned the great people he has already run into on the trip.  There are quite a few bikes! He has even had a R1200C siting. This is a beautiful 2000 model with only 8,400 miles. Looks like perfection.  BMW even had the demo tent set up for riders to take a drive on a new or different model than you normally would.  This is the beautiful grand prize! Wish I was there with you. Keep the pictures and info coming and I will keep everyone updated!

Frustration

Nothing like traveling for work and getting to do actual work. I came onsite interested to get some hands on with the servers and software they were training me for, however it is just crashing down on me. Went to a school for VMware View, this is a server that manages virtual machines in a thin client  LAN. I'm falling in on someone that has set it up, trying to read notes and get up to speed on what he has been doing and where he is at with the process, very frustrating. I for one am note used to working with a team, especially a team that isn't familiar. In a huge project I could imagine it would be broken into smaller tasks for each individual or have a collaborated task working closely together. I have had neither! I am currently trying to juggle three different server builds and designs, two if which are in the build phase. Working on one by myself I have designed it to the best of my knowledge and I can completely wrap my head around the entire network. This project howe...

Car Fiasco

It has been a little over a month and I still don't have my car. I like to think I'm an easy going person and I try to understand why something could take so long. But the last correspondence I had was Tuesday, with my Adjuster and with the dealer. The adjuster said he would let me know something the minute he knew something. Knowing where the car was I visited the dealer and asked them, told me he would call me the next day. Tomorrow will me Friday and if I have t heard something by midday I'm going to start calling people.  After the fiasco of trying to get a rental yesterday I'm just ready to be done with the whole thing. Tuesday we got a rental reservation. Showed up at the rent a car place, no cars called a couple other places no car. Told me they would call next morning with a car. I took the morning off to play games with my son and the morning turned into afternoon. Got a call and went to pick the car up, 4:45, ridiculous. I was rather happy it wasn't a car ...

New Logo

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Got our logo up on the site.

Brightened My Day

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Yesterday I had such great hopes, I was finally getting my car back after the accident on May 24th. Over 30 days later of expected dates and postponing I was getting it back. I didn't want to rush these guys because I wanted it back in good working condition, boy was it disappointing.  After doing a brief overlook the body looked great, paid the desuctable amd on my way. The desuctable left this sickening feeling due to it wasn't my fault, it was a hit and run and we ended up finding the guy later and turning it over to the cops. Nothing to our knowledge has been done. I was still out a deductable and he is still driving around.  So the trip home I noticed an immediate issue with steering. Turning right was touchy and was like I jerked it, left was stiff and sluggish. Not very happy, but told myself it had been a month since driving it. Then I realized the car I have been driving was my wife's, identical... blood pressure went up a little. Getting out of the area speeds are...

Troopers

Have a question, when being pulled over is it to much to ask for the trooper to remain behind you on a busy interstate? Received a speeding ticket, and yes I was speeding. Came up on a vehicle, at the I-30/I-40 merge north bound, utilizing their full lane off one white line to the other riding their brakes. I was on my motorcycle and accelerated quickly to get away from this potential hazard. After getting around and checking my mirrors here comes the trooper. Promptly pulled over at the 67/167 side and was told I was doing 80 in a 60. Handed all my proper paperwork he then returned to his car and promptly came back explaining the ticket asked if there were any questions, no, returned to his car and the sound of the Hemi raced off. At this point I have license, registration, insurance card, wallet, a ticket(to nowhere fun) and the riding protective gear I removed to hear and retieve the requested paperwork. As 18 wheelers pass they are swerving over the white line, on my side, while tr...

East Coast Bound

Glenn is on the road this week, he has a couple trips planned this year. This particular trip's destination was the East Coast. Due to the weather there have been some modification of the plans and has moved some of the stops to the end of the trip. Day one was to Birmingham with about 4 hours straight in moderate rain. This was definitely and interesting experience! We are looking forward to sharing some great pictures and stories from this trip.

Morning Ride In

Such a beautiful day for a ride, it was really hard to stop and come into work! Days like this I just want to continue on and just see where I would end up...the end result of such a thing would most likely end up without a job.