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Quite eventful happenings since Saturday I must say! But first I will say that I’ll be doing a review of my bike boots and helmet in the next few days.

Mail

Anyway, Saturday I awoke at about 12:30pm and found that I had been left 4 presents by the mail man. This months software review package came (AVG Anti-Virus Pro on a 2 year license), which is a joy as AVG has just this minute saved me from a virus I acquired on the Pirate Bay website (not a torrent, an ad from the site strangely). One can never have too many Anti-Virus programs. Unless you are like me that is and have amassed a collection of 11 based on product reviewing.

My second item to come through the mail was my Visor Stickers. The picture you can see at the top of the screen is me in one of my helmets. As you can tell I have added a few arrangements to it which attract quite a lot of attention from wherever I go. Seriously if you want “people” to talk to you then stick a red Mohican on top of your helmet and voila! Well seeing as I get all this attention I thought that I may as well whack a sticker on there and get myself some free advertising. The below picture is the result of this and I must say – I am really impressed. The order arrived quickly, stuck on easily and it looks great. Check out xtreme2xcess to order your own.

Yet another joyous surprise on the motorcycle front was that I awoke to 5 2010 Honda brochures for various bikes! Plus a letter inviting me to come for a test ride on the VFR 1200. Great! I really love Hondas and am actually thinking of buying one as my next bike sometime around April. Honda seems to have the most relaxed approach to bike sales as well and it’s something that I really value as a customer. If I want a test ride on one all I have to do is pop down to my nearest dealer and the hour after I am riding whatever I choose. Clearly I think this is an amazing idea and as a result I would be willing to put my money into the Honda brand.

The fourth item to arrive was a booklet of financing and money. Exciting I know…

Snow

Once again it snowed on Sunday which laid a good three to four inches on the ground. Seeing as now my only option is to travel by motorcycle (I don’t do buses, sorry) this made for quite an interesting Monday morning commute. My commute is about 10 miles and most of the roads were just wet, with snow on the parts cars had not been travelling on. This rule excludes both the road where my house is and the road where work is. They were covered with Ice, slush and snow – add on the bonus of me living on one of the steepest hills imaginable, having practically bald tyres (still legal) and you have yourself a concoction of fun and ass clenching antics.

Needless to say I did arrive safely and me and the bike had no issues. Oh, there is now just the fact that everyone that saw me, which was probably in the thousands, now thinks that I am a complete lunatic. This doesn’t really bother me as my mother always told me I was anyway.

Holidays

As promised in my last article I will now inform you about my upcoming vacations. I don’t know for certain yet but sometime in July I will be going to Amsterdam! I’ve been to Bruges before but never Amsterdam and I am really looking forward to it. I’ll be going with 3 of my best friends on a “minicruise”. I have been on one before but I was 11 or so, therefore I can’t really remember much about the actual ship. I do however know that there is a casino, shopping centre and several bars onboard for the 18 hour journey. Sounds good enough for me! If anyone knows any good things to do in Amsterdam (aside from the obvious) then message me on twitter or through the contact page.

Also I’ll be going on holiday to a couple of other destinations (one of which will probably be Spain by the looks of it). I’d really like to go to Taiwan as well on one of Mordeth13’s tours he is setting up but I will have to see how much money is available as I will probably not be in the best financial situation soon. So that may have to wait a while. I may be moving there in the near future anyway due to the fact that I can get a job teaching English. We shall see. Positives for England are… oh nothing.

So then, as you can see, quite an eventful couple of days. I am looking at purchasing a Honda Hornet 600 soon. I really fancy the revvy CBR engine they have (13K redline!) so this will stretch my monetary situation. This and the fact that I am moving to Scarborough. Oh and the fact that I still have a ton of things I want to do! I’ll have to spread the costs though and will have to wait a couple of years or so, as I will be more financially stable by then.

P.S. I’ll be posting about my VIP trip to an executive box in Wembley to watch NFL last October soon as well. Our box was next to the owner of the New England Patriots so that was pretty cool. I may be going again in September as well to watch the band Muse.

As I said before, more reviews coming in the next couple of days, follow me on twitter for up-to-date adventures about my life (actually quite mundane) and *Sign of phrase not currently found*.