THE SWINE-LINE

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The next General Membership Meeting will be held at the Badger Den on Feb 4th at 7:00 p.m. Please plan to be there. Riding season is fast approaching and we would like to plan for it. See you there!

For members receiving the Swine-Line by snail mail who would like to receive it by E-mail as well as mid-month updates please forward your e-mail address to Cindy

From the Director

Hello gang. Here we are in the midst of my least favorite month of the year. We have already hit -50 a couple of times and I am running out of places to push snow! On the brighter side, the football playoffs are in full swing and the Superbowl is right around the corner. We are also gaining daylight and that means light at the end of this winter tunnel. This is when I always start thinking of new parts or accessories I want to add to the scoot or what maintenance needs to be done before riding season. Anything we can do to combat the dreaded cabin fever! Don't forget the 2nd annual pajama party on the 5th of February at Chatanika Lodge. Last year proved to be almost too much fun and Ron and Shirley always treat us good. There may be some interesting PJs worn as well. I hope to see ya'll at the meetings, we have quite a few ideas for fundraisers and rides floating around and we need input from all. Come on out to the Badger Den and say hello to some old friends, we all need help getting through this time of year. As always, ride safe and ride free.

Raven

Assistant Director/Safety Officer - Rich Barlow

SECRETARY - Lori Price

Please help us to update the chapter's membership roster. All local members must be a member of national H.O.G. before joining the local H.O.G. chapter. If you joined the local H.O.G chapter by completing an application at the Shop, but did not become a national H.O.G member first you need to do that. You can become a National member by going to the Shop or on-line at http://www.hog.com. If you have questions please contact Lori Price or Aleshia Purcell at the Outpost. If you have different information please let us know.

The Big Brothers Bowling for Kid's sake is coming up,first week end in March. Any one out there interested in bowing, should get in touchwith me at 488-1728.If any one is interested in doing please let me know before to long. I can go pick up the sign up sheets youneed or, if you like you can go pick your own up at the Big Brothers, Big Sisters headquarters. It is on the 3rd floor of the Saddlers building on Cushman Street. J.C. Penny's used to be. Going into the building you take the elevator to the3rd floor, and you will find it easily So far I have no takers of my last email a few.

LOH
NANCY

Members who receive the Swine-Line through the mail and would like to begin receiving an e-mail version are asked to forward their e-mail address to me at c.gollwitzer1@gci.net. In addition to cutting down on the newsletter mailing costs members who request e-mail distribution will receive monthly activities updates when available. The deadline for submissions to be included in the Swineline is the 15th of the month.

Well its PJ time February 5th, I'm trying to put together a calendar for the whole year, so when it's riding time everyone will know what's going on all year. If anyone has any ideas of what they would like to see this year email me and we will try to make it happen, so far this is whathave planned for this year. Email: jking@gci.net

Feb 5: Pajama party at Chatnika Lodge
May 6-8: Bike show at the Bentley Mall
May 21: Chatinika Run,Bike Games and camp out
May 27-31: Meet in the Middle Run
June 11: MDA Fun Run
June-19 State HOG Rally
July 9 Red Cross fun run

Plus more to come!!!!
If you have any questions, you can contact me at # jking@gci.net or 372-2791

Ads can be submitted to the editor via e-mail: c.gollwitzer1@gci.net or dropped off at the shop to be put in the Editor's box.

SWINELINE EDITOR
C/O: Gollwitzer
P.O.Box 55574

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For Sale- 1994 Ford Explorer, V6, 4-wheel drive, 112,000 miles, auto start with remote locks, new Pioneer stereo with CD player, gets 17 mpg, new IM, fully winterized, body in good condition, ABS brakes, cruise control, asking $4,900.00 OBO. Call Tom at home 488-9649 or cell 460-4307.

Computers have diminished in price to the point where software is a large part of the cost. You can buy a desktop computer (less monitor & shipping) for $250.00 to $300.00. The rest of the cost is software. With the advent of Linux and the Open Software Foundation, you can outfit your computer with all the software you need for free and interesting enough, many of the software programs written for Linux have versions that run on Windows. I will attempt to review one cross platform software program in each copy of the newsletter so the windows users can sample what Linux software is like.

With digital camera's becoming more predominant every month, a good, free graphics editor seem a logical choice for this month's review. I was normally disappointed with the software that came with the camera. It was fine for transfering the pics to the computer, but after that, seemed to fall flat. The GIMP is a graphics editor that allows you to do just about anything imaginable to a picture. It's one of those programs that ya need to spend a little time exploring. Also, will run very slowly on a bare bones PC, so read the page that the link takes you to before downloading/installing. Have Fun!

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

Past Software reviews.

Bi11

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