October Comment 23

 

October 23 Comment

 

I know it is a bit late for the comment now being November but a few things have happened and I feel a bit of a target. First of all my postings from this blog on Facebook have been taken down and I thought it was because there was a mismatch of valid Facebook identifiers. That lead to me setting up a new profile for the blog. I also had to deal with my Facebook page being hacked. Thinking I had got that sorted I am informed that my email page had been hacked giving grief to untold people who received emails purported to be from me. I find my log in has come from Nigeria although someone from California was trying but failing (Microsoft scam). I now do not trust any emails from companies. Individuals have a better chance because they are easily identified. I apologise now for not responding because it has gone to spam. As I am doing the paperwork for the Club Stand at the bike show at Kempton Park on the 2nd December the hacking caused a number of problems for me and the organisers with registering the bike for the show. Never mind electronic communications the old telephone worked well. Talking of telephones BT is going digital in 2025 but if you are like me and had to go digital because my router would no longer function as it used to for the wireless link to my computer I had to upgrade. This system is digital and hackable. I have a genuine friend who has had this new BT phone system hacked and that gave misery to all the people he had numbers for stored on his phone. I have an old phone with no numbers stored on it only a sing along message that seems to put off most callers. You can always phone my land line to listen to it. I now know that it was the hacking of my email account that persuaded Google to take down my postings. They could have told me that. I could get no information other than my posts were offensive to the community with an electronic standard reply. That was about as useful as my touch screen phone when that refused to respond to my finger. You can imagine my frustration with all the safe technology failing at the same time produced a reaction not dissimilar to that we witnessed from John Cleese in the scene from Faulty Towers with the branch beating of the car when it stopped working.

Gita said I should calm down.

After having a brilliant day starting with being in the Shop on Observed Sunday with the Wey Valley Advanced Motorcyclists. So many bikes turned up the car park was full. Great atmosphere. The kitchen in the hall has enough facilities to offer members of the club sausage or bacon sandwiches and tea or coffee to munch before going out on their rides. I usually leave my position in the Shop just before the notices to go around the car park and photo what is there as a record for the day and useful pictures for the Club magazine.

Getting home I still had some hours of daylight I pulled the LE out of the garage to investigate an annoying oil leak coming from the oil pressure gauge pipe off the main oil pipe union. After much faffing about the oil leak remained.

 The next day I removed the fitting and soldered the olive to make it oil tight. It would no longer grip the tiny pipe. That seems to have worked. I have yet to get the engine hot enough to check it out. I need to take it for a run before having to ride it to the show. Not long now.