Rear Bicycle Wheel with Broken Spokes - Repaired...

I posted a blog regarding "I Wonder Where I Can Bring My Bike For Repair..." Well I found a shop less than a mile from our place. I walked to the store, handed the reae wheel with the broken spokes and negotiated a price for the repair. I guess I did not do a good job trying to haggle a good quote. I ended up paying CAD 20 which is more than half the price I paid for the pre-owned bicycle. 

After 3 hours, I came back for the wheel and it was like new. The broken spokes have been replaced and the tire has been inflated. I went home and installed the wheel to the bike and showed it to my wife who will use it. She was very happy with it so all in all, it was not a bad idea to get the wheel repaired for the said cost.

I Wonder Where I Can Bring My Bike For Repair...

Two summers ago, I bought a pre-owned bike for $30. It was posted at Kijiji and the photo of the bike looked nice. So I e-mailed the seller and made an appointment. I went to the sellers location right away because to me it was a good deal. Then a very funny thing happened next. The person who answered the door was wearing a very short shorts. I guess I paid more attention to her legs than the bike I was going to buy (LOL). I was told that I can test ride it but I said it looks okay. I paid for the bike and brought it home. When I was riding the bike, I heard a noise near the rear wheel. Only then that I realized that there were some spoke that were broken and the rim was not aligned. In effect the tire is hitting the frame. I have googled for a bike repair shop near our place in Etobicoke but could only find stores more than 40 kilometers away. They are also charging $25 at least which is almost the price I paid for the bike. I may be better off buying another pre-owned bike and hopefully I would not get distracted by a lady seller wearing shorts. Lesson learned.

Lito's House Project List

A month after moving in our new house last August 2011, my wife and made a list of things that we wanted to:

Change/replace in the house.
Add to the house.
Renovate

Below are the things that I came up with:

1-Replace roof shingles
2-Extend roof to cover garage (currently the garage has a flat roof)
3-Stone edging maple tree
4-Emerald Cedar trees for privacy along the east side of the property
5-Stone edging for the East side of the property
6-Bathroom renovation
7-Hardwood flooring replacement
8-Windows replacement
9-Deck - connected to east side of house
10-Sliding door (dining room to proposed deck)
11-Tankless water heater
12-New refrigerator and range/oven (stainless)
13-Replace washer and dryer
14-New Apple iMac computer
15-Solar panel on roof connected to power grid
16-Room extension above garage
17-Convert 1 car garage to 2 car garage
18-Replace front steps
19-New entertainment center
20-Tool shed
21-Lawn mower
22-Snow thrower/blower
23-Upgrade A/C and heater system
24-Extend west side fence outward
25-Fence on the East side of the house (metal)

Here are my wife's addition:

1-Kitchen backsplash
2-Replace Yew tree with spiral tree
3-Extra room in basement
4-Lawn revitalization
5-Hallway Track Lighting

We'll it really is a long list and I am sure it will cost a lot. I hope that these projects or maybe dreams of ours materialize. I hope that some of my future post will be updates on what has been done or completed from the list.


NOTE:list was completed year 2011 and transferred/copied to my blog just now.