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Please say a prayer for my family. I don't want to get into specifics at this point but your prayers are appreciated. Thank you.

Farmer's Market Aksarben Village

I had a great couple hours this a.m. with my sis and her husband Robert and my cute nephews Aidan and Roman. Met them at the Farmer's Market at the Aksarben Village in Omaha, a neat new bunch of shops n such built on the land that used to be the Aksarben horse racing track.

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Boomtown!

I have been in El Dorado(rhymes with tornado), Arkansas since Sunday, at a client bank. I am helping to convert them to our new bank teller and new account software.

It was a 750 mile drive here, which I chose over flying down. ~12 hours or so.

El Dorado is billed as Arkansas' original "boomtown" with oil being a big presence here.

The bank people are extremely friendly and have been taking us out for big lunches of great food daily. Too much food!

Anyway I head home Friday. Some pics and comments at the link below:

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Purty

Late 70's Moto Guzzi 850 Lemans. Very nice.

Sushi

Today I went to a new place for lunch called Okinawa Sushi & Grill on 122nd and L.

They serve all sorts of sushi related items and chinese food as well. I had the snow crab roll and crunchy roll along with a little cup of miso soup.

The snow snow crab, avocado and asparagus wrapped in seaweed and then rolled in some sticky rice with sesame seeds. The crunchy roll is the same except replace the asparagus with crunchy tempura flakes.

My pal Bruce also went and had similar fare along with some squid salad to boot.

The Further Adventures of Spidey 'n' Me

I took an early evening drive in my 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate. A beautiful night for a top down drive.

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Great Saturday ride with friends

Today I went on an awesome ride with some good motorcycling friends. What made it even more special is that Moto Guzzi motorcycles outnumbered the others, with 3 Guzzis, 2 Harleys and 1 Yamaha present.

My friends Scott and his stepson Brad rode on his Harley, Dennis rode his Harley, my brother in law Robert was on his Guzzi, Ken was on his Guzzi, Ryan was on his Yamaha and I was on my Guzzi.

We rode some fantastic roads in Iowa's Loess Hills, including a few I have not ridden for over 4 years since I had moved to Florida. Great to rediscover these gems. Thanks Ryan for leading us on some of those. 170 miles of joy today :-)

New riding friend Ken rides a Guzzi V7 Classic. What a sweet bike. Now I want one but alas I can't afford one. Oh well, we can't always get what we want.

SATURDAY RIDE WEATHER REPORT

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Appears the tail end of the storm is entering the area now. Let's plan to meet at STARBUCKS 174th and Center at 11:00 a.m.

Exhaust-ing Alfa activity

Tonight I spent a little time in the garage working on my 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider. The Spider has two muffler...a center one and a rear one. Not long after I bought the Spider I replaced the rear one as it was in quite poor condition. More recently the center muffler had been developing rust holes which I dutifully patched with jb weld. But it began to deteriorate too much, rusting apart inside.

So I purchased a new center muffler section and put it on tonight. A liberal application of PB Blaster lubricant a couple days ago on the bolts holding the muffler in place really helped as they came off almost effortlessly. I must say the replacement part fit just perfectly and was really no struggle at all to replace.

Now she's all back together again and sounding swell :-)

Steph's wedding

My niece Stephanie got married last night. Here are a few pictures from the wedding. It was very nice and went quite well!

Wedding pics

Furry friend (or foe?)

I saw this little goofball running around outside my window this morning.

European Bike Night 2

My friend Ryan and I took a ride down to Lincoln, NE to the old Haymarket District downtown for European Bike Night.

What a fantastic turnout on a gorgeous evening with loads of cool bikes! Below are a few pics and also a link to all the pics on Photobucket. CLICK ON THE PICS TO ENLARGE THEM.


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