MOMA, Central Park, A little coal fired pizza and then home.
Ess-A-Bagel, United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, and the Guggenheim Museum
9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Wall St., Empire State Building
Bit of a wandering day today since it was raining. Went to Times Square (meh), Rockefeller Plaza (double meh), St. Patrick's Cathedral, Carnegie Hall, 5th Avenue and Finally the New York Public Library.
Taken at St Patrick's Cathedral
This month's donation goes to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play charity is an organization that comes close to my heart as it is based out of one of my favorite hobbies, video gaming. In short the Child's Play Charity donates video games and other toys to hosptials so children in those hospitals can get a way, if for just a little bit from the stresses and complications associated with their hospitalization.
Since 2003, we’ve set up and organized Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 70 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.
Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.
Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.
The Child's Play Charity has also received heavy support from Penny Arcade's Gabe and Tyco and to date has raised over $3 million to get toys and videos games into hospitals for children. Overall I think it is a great charity with a great cause and it really has shown that the people in the video game community can mobilize to support a cause when called upon.
Well I got the H4 relay installed this morning. Took a lot longer than it should. The basic thing that I needed to do was just remove the gas tank, then run the new line from the battery to the headlight assembly. Of course something unrelated to the relay install threw me off. After disconnecting the gas tank I had a slow but persistent drip coming from the primer nozzle on the fuel tank. I don't know why this thing was leaking as I just rebuilt the damn petcock in October. Well that led to me having to drain the tank so I didn't get gas all over the garage. That was the longest part of this whole process.
Once I got the H4 relay installed it was just a matter of moving in reverse. The relay kit has the relays set inside the headlamp housing so I think later this summer i will replace the standard three pin connector with posilock connectors to get some more free space in there.
My troubles didn't even there of course. After getting the bike fully assembled again it wouldn't start. It would turn, just not over so I knew I didn't jack up the battery connection. My guess is the engine was flooded or something or perhaps empty from sitting for the past couple of months. After about thirty minutes of messing with everything I finally got it to turn over and run. I let it run for quite a while just to flush itself out. Turned it off and it started back up again with no problems. Overall a decently smooth project.