This morning while on my way to work aboard my Harley, I had a number of things on my mind. My spouse’s pain and inability to walk… a major problem within my professional association that reflects poorly on my legacy… a number of items on my “to-do” list at work with pressing deadlines… and having to take off work on Friday to drive to the mother-in-law’s to fix the DVD player that we got for her a few months ago.

All typical, every-day things that many people have going on in a busy life.

But thinking about those heavy matters caused me to have a number of close-calls. I quickly snapped…
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Spring has been very slow to come to my part of the world. Sure, we have had some nice, sunny days, but seldom more than two in a row. Much more rain and cold has been the regular pattern, which makes this booted biker “cage-crazy.” That is, I have had to drive my four-wheeled vehicle instead of my Harley more often than I usually do in April.

In fact, past patterns of March and April motorcycle riding for this data-driven guy indicate…
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Mother Nature is a damn tease, she is!

Last Thursday when I got home from work, I rolled the Harley out and spent an hour checking it out. I had not ridden my beloved motorcycle for almost two months because it has been so darn cold and wet.

However, that day it had warmed enough that I could ride, at least to a meeting of my riding club at my local motorcycle dealership being held that evening.

After a careful T-CLOCS inspection, …
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Sunday and Monday of this week had rather unseasonal and pleasant weather. So what did this biker get to do?
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A bazillion years ago when I started making videos on my “BHD YouTube” channel, I was using video recording capability in my first compact digital camera. I then used “Windows Movie Maker” to edit the video by cropping off the ends, merging segments together, and adding opening & closing titles.

Man, eight years ago is a long time, and it was so much easier back then.

Five years ago I acquired my first HD video camera. Production quality improved, but editing capability became much more difficult since WMM could not handle those types of files and I had to go through many shenanigans to convert raw video from MP4 to AVI in order to edit them.

Three years ago, the process of editing video became impossible since WMM wasn’t working any more and there was not a decent freeware replacement available. Also, Google bought YouTube and foisted its disastrous complexity and entangled “all of google” connections to its platform. I had enough. I gave up. (I distrust Google as much as I hate Microsoft.)

But now…
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Good news! I have a new “while riding” video! I know it has been a long, long time since you have seen videos from me.

I stopped taking and producing videos several years ago for three reasons: 1) YouTube had changed their site to make it much more difficult and consumer-unfriendly to use; 2) I could not get any decent video editing freeware software to work, so I couldn’t edit videos like I once was able to do; and 3) My spouse thinks boot-related videos are “stupid,” and in deference to the fact that he is home all the time (he never goes anywhere unless I drive him), then I had no location or time to make videos.

However, I am happy to report that a change has happened…
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I finally had nice (enough) weather to lead a ride for my club on Sunday. I had planned to lead it Saturday before last, but got rained out. I rescheduled to the Monday holiday, but that ride also got rained out.

However, dry weather prevailed yesterday, albeit rather cool and windy. It didn’t get above 56F (13C), but that’s well within the range of a full-leather ride. So…
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