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April 7, 2005
Dreaming
This morning the alarm clock woke me from a blissful slumber. I suppose for many people, blissful slumber is what the clocks wake them from every day. But for me this is unusual: as often as not I beat the alarm clock in waking myself up, sometimes by an unfair margin. This dream was bringing me great joy, though I cannot now figure out what is so great about it.
What I remember of the dream is this: I was talking to some young man about his motorcycle, which as it turns out was a Ducati 500 GTL. I told him that when I visited Gia.Ca.Moto way back when they had a roomful of GTL engines wrapped in the original factory plastic stacked in a storage room. I promised to show him pictures. [I actually do have a picture of this; people often ask me why there are no people in my photographs, only bikes and buildings.] I proceeded to root through the secretary to find the right photo booklet. The books of pictures included some real photos and some that were of factory tours I had been on, only better. That is, they included nice restaurants and catered lunches. We did eat in the Ducati cafeteria, but not in the nice albergo from the dream. And I am fairly confident that they did not have for decoration a little model of the Morini GP250 racebike that the Moto Morini kept in the lobby of their factory.
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April 6, 2005
Weather Permitting
Now that spring has arrived, I find myself checking the weather incessantly. Can I take the scooter to school, can I, can I? Going to the grocery store at half past six in the morning is something of a treat when the bike runs as well as it does. I may give it a "2-stroke tune-up" by changing the spark plug and touching up its mysterious triple set of points with a small piece of sandpaper, but otherwise she is pretty fit.
I have a major hankering to do some major wrenching on Old Silver. Even better, I think I have a line on an instrument bracket for the Morini. I am tempted to take the old one and send it off to a friend to have a replicate made in stainless. I reckon the prototype would go on the 500, and additional copies would go on the Morini Parts Page.
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