The Coldest Winter

Thank you Samuel Clemens, you had it just right. Another delightful summer day of fog and wind in San Francisco.

So, done with school for a few weeks and I suddenly remember that I had this "blog" thing that I was into back when I had moments of spare time and creative energy. About three months ago Elise and I moved to a nice little apartment with a great view of the city. A whole bunch of friends moved out of SF and I felt rather abandoned. I finished spring semester with a 3.6 GPA then jumped right into summer school at USF. Turns out I took the two hardest classes in the MBA program simultaneously AND in the accelerated summer session, which my classmates unanimously regarded as "insane". In hindsight they were correct, but as I was blissfully ignorant of the insanity of my workload I forged ahead and did quite well, thank you very much, finishing with a 3.53 GPA.
I had my Pelican case bags from the old BMW lying around, and I wanted to see if it was worth fitting them to the new bike. After looking at the expensive and crappy-looking after-market offerings for this bike, I designed luggage mounts for the V-Strom and spent a week fabricating and installing them. They work, are mechanically solid, look good and best of all will be fairly cheap to replace if they are damaged (new Pelican case: $100 vs. new Givi case: $350). I may be on to something with these. Just need to do the same for a top case...