Weekend Update

Jen has been on a tear to get the two bedrooms downstairs into some kind of functional order. She started by first clearing them out of extraneous junk (now it’s in the garage and pending permanent removal), then moved what was the bedroom furniture in the small room to the bigger room. Instead of moving the office furniture from the bigger room to the smaller, we got smaller office furniture and a treadmill for the smaller room. Essentially we now have a nice spare bedroom with bed, dressers, chair and a small office/workout room, which better matches their size to their functions.

The treadmill (and other office aspects) is still a work in progress. The goal is to make it like a treadmill desk, so that we can exercise while “working” – whatever that may be. You can see the clear plastic “shelf” that’s on it now for laptops/etc. It’s not ideal. I’m going to make a removable shelf that sits over the entire thing for devices. We also got an inexpensive flat screen to mount on the wall in front of it for PC connectivity or just entertainment. I managed to get that all installed, but it was too dark for a photo. I’ll post again with that.

There’s a similar setup at work, but often it’s broken, occupied or not convenient to use. Having our own and the opportunity to work from home more (kids in school) makes this kind of exercise more feasible. Yes it’s true. We’re getting older, exercise is harder to come by, and when we don’t get it – it shows.

I’ll post more as it progresses.

As I said we also got some smaller office furniture too. Had to go to work for that. There were some leftover desks and we were allowed to take one.

In addition I fixed the throttle on the Suzuki. It was a cold March winter day, so I brought the bike inside to fix.

When I had adjusted the exhaust port for performance gains, I accidentally dropped the bike on the throttle side. That broke the throttle tube (i.e. grip). I replaced it, but not correctly so it was sticking. It’s all fixed up now. There was talk of the girls trying it in the snow yesterday, but ultimately they decided not too. Oh well. It’s good to go now when the weather gets nice again.

– b