WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 -> Ah... You know? The parents have been running me off my
 -> feet. Yesterday, I had
 -> to excuse myself. I'm still in tears.

 WC> I've had that happen to me, people don't understand how severe
 WC> my limitations are.

You know, dad just today, like almost every other day, suggested that I'm sick
for staying sequestered. He doesn't know what it's like to explain to strangers
why you are doubled over and in tears, or worse why you shout out for no
apparent reason. 

Last time, an elderly lady asked me if I was at the facility visiting someone.
When she saw me all teared up, she asked if my father was OK. I almost rolled
over to the floor with laughter. I managed to squeak out that he was a pain in
the butt, (Not my first choice of words.) and we all laughed that that was more
information than she needed.

 WC> I'm a big fan of Chuck Yeager and Greg Boyington.

I know I've heard that name before. I don't think Boyington was Chucks'
predecessor in the X-project. He was in the Air Force?

How about Edwards, and Billy Mitchel. Both Canadians if memory serves me.

 ->  WC> Worst I ever did was really messs up a guy's arm and shoulder.
 ->  WC> He pulled a knife on me and was quite serious and at that time
 ->  WC> I hadn't found some of the better ( but more risky to me) ways
 ->  WC> of dealing with such.

 -> Well, that's just it. Do unto others before they undo you. 

 WC> I was quite large and strong before disabled, 6'6" 260 pounds
 WC> but I find violence distasteful.

5'10", 175... This sedentary lifestyle, and the triptylines have bumped me up
to 205.
 WC> As a bouncer at a dive biker bar when stopping some idiot from
 WC> hurting someone I occassionally got a thrill associated with my
 WC> besting a man, they're lucky I didn't ralph on them as that
 WC> feeling disgusted me.
 WC> Had to build the reputation however to cut down on the fights.
 WC> Couple dozen incidents the first four months, 2 - 3 the next 2
 WC> 1/2 years.
 WC> It was just a second part time job that I fell into because I
 WC> disliked being annoyed by fighting after trying to have a quiet
 WC> beer to spin down after a hard day's work.

We had a local from a town just East of us who seemed to savour the
fist-ta-cuffs. Last I saw, he was becoming old fast, and getting thrown out of
a house party. 

Having worked in the entertainment biz right out of High School was a real eye
opener for me. I'm no tea-toddler, but I sure developed a distaste for drunk
belligerents.
 ->  WC> I quit Akaido classes because the instructor thought it a hoot
 ->  WC> to match me up with two woman who'd been taking classes for 7
 ->  WC> YEARS!!! I could only take the humiliation for a little under
 ->  WC> six months twice a week.

 -> Shoot... That wouldn't bother me a bit! Akaido is a
 -> discipline that hadn't been
 -> popularized when I was growing up. Wish I knew more of it.

 WC> Heh, well it wasn't _just_ the humiliation.
 WC> I was strained and exhasted after my go-rounds with those
 WC> women. Asleep 1/2 hour after returning home evenings.

That I can see.
 WC> Yeah, brudder in law a bit badder than you might imagine, his
 WC> unit had some horrific missions and mission protocols.
 WC> 22 percent of his unit left Vietnam alive.

Odds like that will open your eyes. ...Well, they should.
 ->  WC> They already have PROM's in them, the advance curve for speed
 ->  WC> is programmed into them and the computer has a tachometer that
 ->  WC> monitors RPM to select the correct setting for any given motor
 ->  WC> speed.

 -> ...But they aren't erasable. 

 WC> Nope, burn once they're done.

 -> Was it you that was writing, that when you
 -> change the battery, that hey have to re-learn their parameters?

 WC> Not I.
 WC> Had the battery on my XS-1000 Special go dead and just replaced
 WC> the battery and go.

Not that they won't work from the get-go, but that they have to reacquire your
driving habits, and engine parameters in order to provide power, and when to
coast with any degree of efficiency. It actually didn't seem too feasible,
unless there was some storage facility inside the black-box.
 WC> I was fortunately two blocks from home as once there's not
 WC> enough juice for the puter to say GO there's no roll starting
 WC> such a bike as there's no fire to be had.

I had a chip, or a contact there-of, give on me. No matter how much
carb-starter my buddy pumped into it... <-; 
 WC> I could bump start or kick my TX-650 vertical twin over with an
 WC> indicated battery voltage of 7 volts out of 12 under load when
 WC> the charging system failed.

 WC> Rewired the entire bike myself making up m,y own wiring harness
 WC> too so it'd NEVER fail again.

 WC> The Japanese wiring was so complex and convoluted
 WC> I merely wired it like a friend's TR-650 Triumph
 WC> and it worked like a charm.

Probably saved half a lb. of copper along the way.
 
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