8-7-89
Completely rewired scooter over the week-end, the old wiring was a mess of splices and mostly made up of the same color (red) wire. Made a whole new wiring harness, and a wiring diagram.

9-18-89
We had a major Earthquake yesterday, it was crazy. I was working on a scooter on the lift, when the scooter started rocking back and forth. My first thought was what the hell is wrong with this lift? then I hear the glass breaking, and ran to the back door, there was a shower of glass coming down from the building above, so I stayed in the doorway. After it was over, it got real quiet It was surreal. Then the sirens started, and people shouting, and we were like, holy shit, what now? we closed up the shop, and I made my way home.

I was so glad I was on a Scooter, there was no power, so the stop lights were all out, and the streets were jammed up everywhere. I had to ride on the sidewalk in places, and through back alleys to get home. it was crazy. At about 2:00 am the power came back on for a while, and they started running the Muni trains, which go right behind my house, and make my house shake. So about every ten or so minutes, the house would rumble, and I would run to the doorway. Didn't get much sleep until the power went out again this morning. There was a guy in the park screaming at another guy that the bay bridge collapsed, but news has been hard to get. I walked around the neighborhood this morning and there were bricks everywhere, broken windows. Crazy...