KarlS

I followed your go West blog and enjoyed it very much, I will be following this trip also.

Been watching coverage of the Isle of Mann TT races on the Velocity Chanel, it has to be the wildest high speed motorcycle race in the world. These riders seem to have no fear. Love this race.

When I had my Wing I had replacement value insurance on it. Every time I bought an accessory for it I would take the receipt to my insurance agent and they would put a copy in my file so it would be replaced in case of an accident or theft. Insurance never went up.

Looks like the guys that was on Shark Tank last Friday. No Sharks invested.

Well I may be between bikes at the moment but I keep up with the targets and in one of his pictures there is him, his bike, a caboose and railroad tracks. Another picture shows a historical maker stating that in 1833 that it was the longest railroad in the world. Technically you didn't say when a target had to be the _________ in the world.

Absolutely fitting that he ended up in the hole where he is finally safe. (from himself)

When I rode to Arkansas I stayed on I-69 all the way to Indianapolis and took I-70 into St Louis. The I-70 bridge over the Mississippi River is right next to the Arch.

Says she won. Congratulations.

A man walks into a Bar carrying a gun, he stops and looks around then yells "Who is the SOB that has been sleeping with my wife?" The bar is dead silent, when a voice from the back of the bar yells out, YOU DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH BULLETS.

I'm so sorry for your loss. My condolences to your family.

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was ' Always' Still one of my favorites.

In my opinion you will be chasing electrical problems of all sorts until you upgrade the fuse box. In my case I had very few problems with the bike after I changed mine.

Do you still have the factory original fuse block with the glass fuses? I had all sorts of headlight and other electrical problems with my 83 until I did the fuse box upgrade.

They said on the news a few minutes ago the fire at the JFK Library was an electrical fire and unrelated to the bombings.

Be ready for this one. A man escapes from a prison where he’s been locked up for 15 years He breaks into a house and inside, he finds a young couple in bed. He ties him to a chair. While tying the wife to the bed, the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he’s in there, the husband whispers over to his wife, “Listen, this guy is an escaped convict. Look at his clothes! He’s probably spent a lot of time in jail and hasn’t seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don’t resist, don’t complain. Do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is obviously very dangerous. If he gets angry, he’ll kill us both. Be strong, honey. I love you!” She responds: “He wasn’t kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me that he’s gay, thinks you’re cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you, too.”

A Mom visits her son for dinner who lives with a girl roommate. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty his roommate was.She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.... Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between him and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, his son volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you,we are just roommates." About a week later, his roommate came to him saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" He said ,"Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure." He sat down and wrote : Dear Mother: I'm not saying that you ‘did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you ‘did not' take the silver plate But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner. Love, your son. Several days later, he received an email from his Mother which read: Dear Son: I'm not saying that you ‘do' sleep with your roommate, and I'm not saying that you ‘do not' sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now, under her pillow… Love, Mom.

When I test drove one two years ago I found the steering to "twitchy" seemed like the slightest movement of the handle bars made it jump around. I see they made changes for 2013 to improve the ride and stability. http://www.powersportsbusiness.com/top-stories/2012/09/23/new-chassis-for-2013-can-am-spyder-rt/

Think he just lost $81,874.25

Years ago I tried to quit smoking and one morning all my employees came up to me, handed me a carton of cigarettes and told me to "please start smoking again" and walked away. I guess I get a bit "grumpy" when I try to quit. lol.

Just watched a special on TV the other night about China and their automotive manufacturing. In China someone buys a new car every 2.5 seconds and the Chinese totally disregards any copyright laws. They were showing various brands of cars sold in China and the Chinese built counterparts, they looked the same (except for their inferior motors). BMW tried to sue them for copyright infringement but lost in the Chinese courts, the courts said they looked nothing alike. (of course) They also showed Chinese made motorcycles, ATV's, trucks and boat motors that looked just like the American, European and Japanese versions. One of the more laughable ones was when they showed a Honda accord next to the Chinese version, the only visible difference was that the badge on the Japanese version was spelled Honda and the Chinese one was spelled Handa. But the Chinese courts claim they look nothing alike. Now they are ready to flood the American market with copycat lookalikes that are as reliable as Yugo's. Takes me forever to shop anymore, I search and search to buy products NOT made in China which is hard to find.

H&R block helped me out by finding the inaccurate information the CPA was filling (electronically) on my tax forms. They didn't lie on federal just on state. I see my lawyer at 10:00am tomorrow and what I have been told so far that it appears that when the CPA's firm signed the tax forms as the preparer they obligated themselves to file all information to the state as I submitted to them. Yes I am responsible for back taxes and fees but they are at fault and I should be able to collect those illegally obtained refunds and interest and penlites from the accounts office. I do have proof that I supplied the proper tax information to the CPA's office and they falsified my returns without my knowledge. So it comes down to. do I call the state and let them know that my taxes was filed with inaccurate information and pay them back and them take the CPA firm to court to try and collect my losses, or wait and see if the state catches it. Thanks for everyone's input and I will see what happens tomorrow. Buy the way H&R block only charged me $18 to do my returns this year.

This concerns Michigan State taxes. For the last six years I have been having my taxes prepared by a accounting office in the area, last Friday I decided to take H&R Block up on their offer to review my last three years of returns to see if they could of gotten me more money back. They found deductions the accounting firm didn't list BUT couldn't understand why they couldn't get me as much money back as the accounting firm did. After supervisors and I kept looking it over we discovered that the accountant was not listing all my income, inflating the rent I pay and falsifying tax codes. I turned in all my W2's and filled out everything on his worksheet truthfully. I went straight to his office and talked to his head office girl. She pulled up their records and saw that what I turned in was not what HIS preparer put on my tax forms for the last SIX years. She said the owner and head CPA would not be in until Tuesday and she would talk it over with him and have him call me. When he didn't call me I called him and he was VERY nasty about it. This is how our conversation went. He said: We do whatever we have to do to get you the largest refund we can I said: Does that mean falsifying information to the State? He said: If my preparer made a mistake then I'm sorry. I said: A mistake, six years of cutting my income in half, inflating my rent and using incorrect tax codes is a mistake? He said: You signed the taxes (forms) and if you don't like it you can pay us to file amendments and pay the money back. Then he hung up on me. This is a but load of money for me with paying back the tax money with penalties and interest. My lawyer is being kind and checking with his CPA to see what could be done about it. There is a whistle blower number that gets you off the hook for turning in cheating tax preparers but as far as I can find out it is for federal taxes only. Anyone have any ideas or have went through this before? Thanks....Karl

Someone turned on the heat for a couple days here in Michigan, but now it looks like the pilot went out.

32 Ford, The king of Hot Rods.