I just sold my scooter today (CPI Popcorn), I hated riding that underpowered 50cc thing. And since starting to ride a larger motorcycle every time I’ve actually been on the scooter it’s felt unstable and outright dangerous to ride.
But now it’s gone, and it’s time to remember the good times. After all we shared 11400 km which is the equivalent of a drive from Trondheim, Norway to Kathmandu, Nepal.
After 5 years of faithful service, at least it left with a smile:
I got a tiny camera from purely gadgets last week, the Veho Muvi.
The quality is not great, just 640×480 resolution but the camera is ridiculously small (5.5 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm) so you can attach it pretty much anywhere.
I made a recording going around on my scooter just to show the quality.
Hehe, I was just on my way to my first hour of motorcycle driving practice. I was driving my scooter, and I was driving reasonably slow, maybe around 20-25 km/h (although, in hindsight.. I should PERHAPS have driven even slower) 
Anyway, as I’m about to exit a roundabout, the rear wheel looses it’s grip and the scooter starts sliding sideways. oh, did I mention it was raining? well, it was and that roundabout was unbelievably slippery.
So there I was, sliding sideways knowing all to well what was about to happen, and as the crablike movement of the scooter slowed it down, the rear tire finally got a hold of the road again. This of course made the scooter throw me off like the angry little plastic pony it is.
“Artist” rendering of the accident.
So I flew trough the air about a meter or two, hit the road elbow first. Luckily the Road broke my fall, and seeing that I was wearing a full motorcycle dress, I could just get up and drive on.
I actually seem to recall a tiny voice inside my head going “Wheeeee!” in mid air,
The results of this interesting experience is:
I feel a bit soar on the right elbow, hip, and upper chest, but otherwise I’m fine.. Sitting in the couch watching Macgyver like I’m supposed to, Just 2 more episodes left and I can start on season 4
Haven’t posted much lately.. Things have been pretty busy with work and the moving (only 6 days left, yaaaaay!), I’ve had almost no time for UFO Afterlight or Silent Hunter 4 the last 2 weeks, and I don’t expect I will have much time for C&C 3 when it is released next week.
I took out my scooter today, drove around a bit.. took like half an hour to start the bastard after it being in storage for 5 months this winter. I’m looking forward to not taking the bus to work tomorrow
The other thing that has kept me busy lately is that I have been making a new webpage (that combines aakretech.no, .com, .net and .org into a single page). Not quite done yet but most of the pages are in place. Removing the cocoon webapp for aakretech.org from my Tomcat server reduced the server’s startup time from 15 seconds to 0.7 seconds.
Not much more to say really.. Nemi got her new cage, but we wont get it for her until we move next Sunday/Monday
