Head and Shoulders

I finally got my headers back from CIC. Not cheap, but the finish and quality is fantastic. I'm really happy with the result.




I also got some other pieces teflon coated for the bike, just to tidy it up a little bit and keep the surface finishes consistent.

Contract Law and Other Such

I recently took three weeks off work to complete two more units towards my double masters. For two weeks, the classes were from about 8am till 12:30pm. This meant that I could wake up, go to class, head home for lunch and have a lie in the warm spring sun.

Three weeks of that certainly relaxed me. The life of a student is never really that hard. You use your brain for 50% of the time, and the other 60% is relaxation. I was starting to enjoy it too much!

Having such a good time made me a bit sad however, as I wasn't really looking forward to going back to work. After many a long discussion with mum and dad and Robin, I decided that I would resign from work and continue my studies in 2010 alongside some part time work.

It's a bit of a scary situation with a mortgage on the side, but I need the break after 5+ years of solid work with only the occasional holiday. The reason I started studying in the first place (June 2009) was that I was starting to idle at work anyway.

It was a tough call, but I'm on the home stretch now, with less than two weeks left in the office and still no replacement or assistant to do a handover for.

This week is also important as exam results for Contract Law 601 and Socioeconomic Impacts 601 are due out at 5pm today. I'm thinking I got a minimum 70% for each of them, but I would like to keep my grade point average over the 75 mark. Here's hoping!

Failures

As you can see, I never got to finish my blog about Thailand... how awesome the whole week was. There are three reasons mainly, the first being that I couldn't find the time to write, the second being that if I had time to write, I had lost the desire to write, and the third being that I have had catastrophic hard drive failure and it is currently being attended to by forensic data recovery specialists.

*le sigh*

I hope that the invoice for the recovery will only be a few hundred dollars...

Meanwhile, I can't sleep (its about 2:30am) and I'm backdating some work Robin and I have done on the Honda CBR400RR.

Plastic Fantastic

Robin fitted up some of the fairings today so we could get an idea of what the bike was going to look like and to also assist with getting the tank painted to suit.


Our mate Potato came over to offer some advice on a colour scheme and we agreed on a white tank, with black near where the legs go and simple plain black Honda wings. Potato does some great work and he has priced the tank up for me, plus some plastic welding and a respray of the air ducts for around $400.

That night I jumped on Xtreme Decals and picked up a set of wings for about $15 delivered.