RE-Cycle: Try, Fix, Rinse and Repeat

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Try, Fix, Rinse and Repeat

Believing the previous viruses vanquished I willfully allowed the next days child to access the school sanctioned Portal site to engage his mind during the summer months.
DUMB mistake!
This site is RIDDLED with hungry, vicious viruses ultimately immune to Norton Virus Protection! As he blissfully went about the games we started to rack up the virus's to a count of 27! The final one was a nasty fraudulent FBI warning that froze and locked out the computer while at the same time utilizing it's camera to take a picture of the child and post it in a very scary and official looking FBI bulletin stating that he was guilty of fraud and piracy and in order to free and unlock it we had to pay a $450.00 fine!!!
Once again thanks to Pat down at Zone Red who over the last couple of days and several attempts seems to have successfully purged it's systems of all viruses not to mention replacing that useless Norton with Spybot and Microsoft Protection (both FREE by the way!)
Needless to say a very loud and stern proclamation was made to all children that under NO circumstances would anyone be using the shop computer ever again!
ANYWAY!
As the summer months are here things have unfortunately slowed down a wee bit. Not only selling but buying as well. Most folks don't like to shed the protection of their AC during the day! Although, for the record, coming in here is like coming into the Snow Monsters cave on Hoth! I like it COLD! So after having built up all the easy stuff we are now digging into the "WOW! these bikes need a LOT of work better just stick it over here and forget about it" pile. So our average of four bikes built a day has dwindled a bit. Managed to finish only 1 and 3/4 yesterday, but boy is she a beaut! A 1978 Schwinn Suburban 5 speed with the neat FF system (rear freewheel is fixed, and the freewheel is in the crank!) She is a real peach with new tires to boot! Also have a classic Giant Cross almost done, and will be ready to go after I finish up the couple of repairs I did get in yesterday. Also the day before built up a SHARP looking Mongoose XR-200 this one with new tread as well! (yea...been out of decent used tires for a few days now) So without any fanfare we do have quite a few choice rides in waiting. Just eager to find a new home. Please have pity on these cute little guys and come give them a new home today! (to bad they didn't have pitifull little doe eyes to pull at your heartstrings!)
All right, now I best get back at it as I know you are all just waiting for the perfect day to bounce down here and buy us out!
Right?