{"id":367,"date":"2012-01-07T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-01-07T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:57:49","slug":"the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"The New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m bringing in the New Year suffering with another virus. In less than a month, I\u2019ve caught two colds. I see so many people all day and it seems like everyone on my route is sick with something \u2013 colds; flu; laryngitis; bronchitis. I guess I don\u2019t have a very good immune system because I always catch more than my share of colds. If only I\u2019d had those tonsils and adenoids out when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

I had a wonderful time with David and Lisa at Christmas. My present was new Black Diamond trekking poles from them and Karen. I can\u2019t wait to try them out! Lisa made a delicious ham dinner, and afterwords, we all went to see a movie. When we got back to their house, Dave jail-broke my iPhone for me. I was thinking of moving up to the iPhone 4, but I really didn\u2019t need any of the new features, and I would be hesitant to tamper with a new phone. I can now use my phone as a modem to connect my laptop, anywhere I get a data signal.
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\nThe next weekend, it was off to spend the New Year with Karen and the boys. It\u2019s always great to see them. The boys are growing so fast and it won\u2019t be long before they\u2019ll all be leaving the nest. Next year, Zack heads to college, and the year after that, Nate will be going. Whenever I\u2019m in Pittsburgh, I always get Karen to take me to the local REI. They were having the usual after-Christmas sales and we both bought some outdoor garments. I like the hiking clothes they have there but it always stuns me to see the prices. With the new rain jacket that Jen and Louie gave me, I should have everything I need to hike in the spring.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s about it for the holidays. In a way, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s over. The traffic and turmoil of delivery around Christmas time can be a nightmare. We will be giving up the apartment on February 29. I\u2019m still looking for someplace to stay until spring. My plan is to continue to work until the end of April and then retire again. After I become tired of being retired, I may work so that I can afford new tires. <\/p>\n

I found a company in Taiwan that makes small model motorcycles and exports them to the USA. The encouraging news I\u2019m reading is that there are other people like me that want to relive their glory years with the 150cc bikes. It\u2019s possible I may look into something like the SYM Classic 150. <\/p>\n

Just for Donna, I\u2019ve included a table of statistics on the motorcycles performance, and a couple of graphs detailing the power vs. torque analysis through the acceleration curve.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m bringing in the New Year suffering with another virus. In less than a month, I\u2019ve caught two colds. I see so many people all day and it seems like everyone on my route is sick with something \u2013 colds; flu; laryngitis; bronchitis. I guess I don\u2019t have a very good immune system because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}