Smile.

The first lass who saw the new stickers today smiled, she probably thought I was an imbecile but she smiled.

The grey doesn't matter so much any more.

Fuzzy.

The usual sea of bland but I like the wheels, just enough colour to ease my unrest.

Pity now is I've noticed a softness on the far right edge of photos from the Samsung SH100 that serves as a pocket camera whenever I go out. Cleaning the lens hasn't helped.

Chore of the day.

At last Jimmy decided to climb upon the roof and be rid of the tree growing in the gutter.

That is not an attractive foot but it was handy to balance against the ~5 metre drop, a distance certain to be fatal yet not enough to be messy.

Wheel balance.

Rather than wait for the new balance weights to arrive I thought (correctly) I had enough old stock already to do the job.

I'd earlier noticed that the rear wheels had been serviced prior me buying so well that I left them alone, they also spin delightfully enough to use for wheel balancing, pity though that it's quite a chore for Jimmy to put the front wheels onto the hub to do it.

After doing the nearside it was way easier to do the offside as I only needed one jack.

Job done and I'd used the last weight I had, this was an old big one that I'd found on the road a few years ago, I cut a bit off to get the balance right. The paint blobs on the tyre have meanings but I couldn't be bothered checking up on them, it was mere coincidence it aligns with the valve core here.
I had a delightful smooth test drive afterwards, but I do think I should find a bubble balancer to check on these things in future.

A comfort modification.

Legroom was a bit tight with the new computer desk so a quick drive of the jigsaw guess-worked a chunk of board to remove. A dash of contact cement stuck a bit of rubber strip that Jimmy found on the roadside a while back to the untidy edge making it a bit less bruisey to bump into.
I'm pleased with the result.

A splash of colour in a sea of bland.

The red has cheered Jimmy up a bit, the wheels would have been blue except John correctly pointed out the bump strip on the side had a thin red stripe on it.

Wider couch means narrower desk.

Room is tight in Grace and Jim's playroom so this new narrow desk is Jimmy's new home.
It has an upper section that I left off due largely to monitor size, it should make a handy shelf somewhere later.
We recently got a pair of these fancy new chairs too.