New Projects
August 9, 2008 By Jesse Doerr @ 8:57 pm
With time comes hobbies. Besides, I always need a new project to spend money on right?
I’ve got my bike back from storage and I’m loving it. I found an excelent bike shop down in Portland to get it running from me and had a real nice day driving it up to Seattle. Now it’s sitting nice and snug out in the garage/new fenced area that I built for it.
With the new wrap on the pipes, the bike is looking hot. The old leather bags don’t quite fit the look anymore, so I’m talking to a metal worker I know about whipping me up a lugage rack to hold my stuff. The biggest item of note is the new seat. I ordered the Vintage Sport Touring Seats w/Driver Backrest from Mustang seats. Boy was that a good decision. It is an unbelievable difference from the stock seat that came with my bike, and I’ve been told that these seats really get a lot better after they’ve had time to break in.
The other little project that I’m starting to work on is setting up my fish tanks again. While I was in college I had one tank setup that I got a lot of enjoyment out of. This time I’ve built a cabinet that will hold two of them. Right now I have both of the tanks setup with the lights and air on. I just picked up some of the plants today too. I think I’m going to let them get established and start growing for a little bit before I start introducing some fish.
The plan is to setup a couple of schools of comunal fish and a few breeding pairs of cichlids. I might even throw in an eel. I think it’s going to be a real neat setup when it’s all done. I’ve added a picture gallery for each of the tanks, here and here. I’m going to try and post a new picture each week. I think it will be neat record of the progression of the tanks and their development as the plants and fish grow.