Got my motorbike out of the shop today. I had its 24,000km service done and got new tires put on that are more suited to street riding than dirt riding. Now it's ready to go for my upcoming road trip to San Francisco, Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Sasquatch. I rode it around town all day and it felt great being out in the sun! I've noticed though that it has a bit of an issue starting up and I have to give it a flick of gas and some choke. Will have to get that sorted out.

I took it to Richmond Motor Sport. They told me a service would cost about $250-$300 when I originally inquired in the shop. When I booked my appointment on the phone I was told it'd be about $500 for the full 24,000km service. When I got the bill it was $907.80, with the tires accounting for $280. They charged $425 for labour which I suspect was a bit steep. They also neglected to call me and let me know that they didn't receive a part in time for my appointment before I woke up early last Saturday morning and got Chelsea to drive me out to their store in far east Richmond. I'll probably take it to a Kawasaki dealership next time. Well, actually, I'm probably going to try to sell it in July rather than bring it to Edmonton.

I also picked up my new laptop today. It shipped on time and booted up fine. I have to give the win to Tiger over Dell, who shipped late and had an awful outsourced customer service line with long hold times. I'll have to reserve full judgement on the laptop itself until later of course but so far so good. And at 1/3 the price of my previous laptop I'm feeling much better about this purchase overall.