->  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?

No but they were both fighter pilots in the war.

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

Not as familiar with them but Billy Mitchel's name rings a bell.

-> 5'10", 175... This sedentary lifestyle, and the triptylines have
-> bumped me up
-> to 205.

I'm down to one meal a day due to lack of activity, some days I
skip entirely as the pain is so bad it makes me suffer nausea.

->  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 tha
->  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. 

That reminds me of a funny incident.
Three commercial fisherman who were non-regulars stopped into
the place one night.
The largest of the ( my size) slammed the bartender Lisa up against
the bar.
These three jerks were completely out of control.
Confronting them the largest got in my face.
I sat on the edge of the pool table, crossed my arms on my
chest and said HIT ME.

Guy says "what." 
I YELL at him "HIT ME."
He backs down and he and the 2 clowns with him left.
Psychology can work :-)
Here's the funy part.
At closing another guy came up to me saying he'd drank his 
cab money and if I could give him a ride home.
He apologized for his friends behavior saying he'd come in with them
but didn't involve himself in their stupidity.
I gave him a ride home on my motorcycle.
Arriving in Madeira Beach what should we see but his three buddies
getting arrested at a 7-11 service station 
Made my night.


-> 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.

I get introverted and quiet when drunk.

->  -> 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.                     

Strength avails one not against Akaido 

->  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.          

Yeah, the little bit I got out of him was pretty frightening
both as to their casualties and what type of orders
they were under.

->  ->  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.

AFAIK the black box in the Yamaha didn't learn parameters it just
powered up and off you go.
No noticable performance loss at all.

->  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... <-; 

Yeah, no spark, that's what I meant.

->  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.

More like three times that figure.
Automotive style bullet connectors and I used some thick wall
plastic flexible tubing throughout the harness I made.
Weatherproof to the max and simplified to the point 
no electrical problem would never hassle me again.

I like talking about the old days, today as most days
will suck :-(
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