Life, The Universe, And Everything

Welcome to my shitty blog! I decided yesterday to start it after I made a dumb mistake riding my motorcycle home yesterday, so I could record and analysis my thoughts on my rookie manuevers. As I thought more and more about why I would make a blog that anyone would ever want to read, I realized the following (in no-particular order):

1. I suck at journalling my thoughts broadly about what I've been doing and how I feel.
2. There's no documentation (in English) on accessories for my new motorcycle.
3. I've been annoyed for some time about the death of proper phpBB-style forums as a resource for searchable information. 

 The first point is why I wanted to make this a blog to begin with. If I were to just journal my riding mistakes in a notebook somewhere, I would get lazy and stop doing it quickly as I do with journalling my thoughts/feelings. 

 On that note, I turned 25 at some point in this last December. I'm starting to hit a point in my life where I need to stop being a screw-off. I've disappointed enough people for a lifetime. I'm sure I'll disappoint more people still, but I need to start trying at some point. Ten years from now, I don't want to look at my whole 20's as wasted. I don't want this to be a lifestyle blog (or rather I'd prefer this be a motorcycle blog), but I will post my thoughts/what's going on in my personal life here occasionally as I try to be better. 

 The Motorcycle

 The second point is where we end up with my new motorcycle. Last year, I learned to ride on a 1981 Kawasaki KZ440 LTD. After putting a hundred or so miles on the bike and spending a good amount on getting it running acceptably, I had scheduled the test for my endorsement. Before I could the skills test, I started having issues with the bike losing throttle and dying when it was hot. 

 After a lot of electrical diagnostics, I confirmed that it was not electrical and probably an issue with low compression on a cylinder. It was at this point, I sold the bike as-is because it was absolutely not worth putting money into. Going into this riding season, I wanted something reliable with more power for me to commute to work, run errands, and maybe do some light-touring on. 

 

 I ended up recently picking up a new 2025 Honda CB750 Hornet for this season. The main factor in me choosing it was that I loved the seating position and it was reasonably priced and powerful. This bike has only been in the US for exactly one model year so there isn't a ton of documentation on accessories for it.  As I work on improving the bike for my use, I want to document it here in a searchable form, so others can avoid my mistakes/copy my success (unlikely).

 General Interests

Thirdly, I'm an old phpBB forum poster so I've been irritated for some time about the death of forums and the loss of knowledge to Facebook groups & Discord servers (where finding information via search engine is difficult.) Once in a bluemoon, I get hyperfixated on a technical topic and would love to document it for others here. I know search engines will make it easy enough to find posts on a blog like this so people can use my reasearch (as long as Google supports Blogger anyway). 

 Out of the Frying Pan; Into the Fire

Hopefully, this is has given y'all some idea on what sort of blog this is going to be. I've named the blog after some proposed signage for long-term nuclear waste storage sites because this blog ultimately is just going to be one guy trying to find a happiness he once had and improve himself in heaps of metaphorical garbage. As an aside, the topic of long-term nuclear storage and the study of how to keep humans away is quite interesting.

Likewise, the domain of this blog is an attempt to play on the above expression without paying too much for it. I know what I need to do and I know its going to suck, but I have to start trying. For now, my goal is to try to have more fun on a daily basis and not just trudge through everyday. I think once I get that goal figured out, I'll end up having a much easier time with my other goals on the path of being less-of-a-bum.

 I will make a post with some vague information about myself (the unknown author) at some point. Feel free to comment below if you have any questions, thoughts, or whatever. Cheers to the poor sap who made it through this post.