July 31st 1 - 0, binary

Yesterday I had the best, followed by the worst, ride of my life. The best was 3/4s of a mile immediately following figuring out my starting problem (was a forehead smacker alright), and getting the bike finally lined up for the first time since deer impact. Straightening the forks made the bike go straight (or damn close enough) again, but the handlebars still weren't straight when you were going straight. Got it though, and it felt great. I came back from the test ride and Emily got on the back, and we went down 401. I stopped after a little bit because I had to tell her how excited I was, and heard this noise.... the wheel was rubbing the fender, and when I rode it home (40 mph the whole way home, didn't want to ruin my tire more than I had to... was really torturous), it wasn't straight anymore. Absolutely depressing! I felt like crap when I got back, and Emily had to take off for karate. I was tempted to just wallow in it, but I said fuck this mood, I'm going to call Larry and get pizza. Well, Pizza Hut pizza, but whatever. I had coupons.
It was good, like Larry's company, and after satisfying my belly I went down to figure out the bike, but I really didn't have it in me. In the morning though, I was talking to Dave about it and we were looking over... one of the fork tubes had slid a good inch up through the triple clamps... apparently they weren't tight enough. *smack* That's why paying attention (and not going, eh, I'll look at it later) is important. So, I need to put er back and really, really, tighten it, and my bike will be damned near perfect. Like perfect. A great thing.
Can't do it right now though, because Mike is down in the shop... I really can't stand his presence. By coincidence or something he's been in later and less often lately (which is good because we don't really need him much), but it doesn't really help... he's just intolerable in my book. Before they hired him Terri told me to just talk to her if he ever got on my nerves at all and I really haven't much, so I'm going to go to the house now and talk to her... I just wanna know how much longer I have, oik.
So, I'm off for now.
~red~

July 30th 144

Last night I took a ride to relax. It really helped, and it was a great ride. I had a few different full out adrenaline rushes, which kinda cleared out my system. I think I get adrenally frustrated, like some people are sexually frustrated. I saw Ian when I went by Turkey Hill and even pulled in the parking lot so I could wave, but I didn't want to stop because I didn't want to push start my bike again... that's getting so old. That crap is practically undiagnosable too, because it's so sporatic.. may be a loose wire or something, I think sometime this week I'll finally dig into it. (I've been dreading getting the fairings off and on). When I left I went to Morgantown to get gas, and being at the gas station felt like some kind of prison. Was so good to be moving again. I was out for about an hour or so, and it was a lot of fun.
I got the dishes done too, and a couple other things... room is still disorganized.
If you think about it, Noah is an ideal roommate in a lot of ways. Yeah, it somehow gets on my nerves that he has no life at all (he spent the last two days straight playing DAoC... and I do mean two days, he had off work.) But really it probably shouldn't... and he doesn't complain, never does anything (on the other hand he never does anything), and he always pays his half of the rent. He has to have the TV on all the time which makes the apartment hotter and is annoying as hell because frankly, Fox doesn't have 2 hours of decent programming, let alone 18-24, but we don't have to pay our electricity bill. I think I'd have a lot more patience left over for Noah if it wasn't for Mike. I'm going to destroy that guy one day.... *eaahughauhguh shudder*
No, but seriously, I hate that redneck dimwit.
A friggin lot.
... if you're a hitman I'm hinting.
...
I went over to my mom's for dinner last night as well. I was kinda dreading it, as I usually am, but it wasn't that bad, like it usually turns out. I'd likely bail a lot more often but I want to make sure I see my sister and I don't bail on her. Besides, the food is always plenty yummy. My mother is plenty nuts though. I think she was getting a little better, or atleast pretending well, but when Erika came home I think she reverted some. Last Sunday I wanted to have Erika over to watch a movie with a few of my friends and I, and mom said it was too soon. A month home is too soon to hang out with her brother without mom present? They ended up arguing and mom slipped up and ended up admitting she doesn't want Erika around me, maybe for a long time. See, in the years that Erika was at the Family Foundation School, I was always saying how I was made out as a bad man from the get-go, not given a chance, and that mom and the FFS were just looking for excuses to separate Erika and I. It was denied and denied in words whilst still being executed in actions, and drove me nuts. Now mom admits it. It's not really a relief, it kinda ticks me off, but atleast she can't lie about it anymore. I think one of the biggest reasons they wanted me apart from Erika was because she looked up to me. Heaven forbid! I'm her freaking big brother, as is Brandon, who is she supposed to model after, mom?! I don't think I'm an idealistic model, but I'm far from living in a cardboard box despite all of mom's predictions... or a commune for that matter.

My cat is still completely insane as well, for anyone who is wondering.
I talked to Elise last night, Dave's sister, which was a first as far as conversations with any length go. She's holding 1st in my fans standings, because she actually emailed me regarding my site the other day! Although maybe that's not fair, because Monkey and Jeff always talk to me about it on AIM or in person. Well, you're all great. Unless you've never talked to me, then you're mute. Or atleast you'd better be mute, or thinking of a good excuse, lest I eat your socks.
Well that's all for today :)
~red~

twenty-eif of july weekend

I had a nice extended weekend. It was extended because on Friday I took off work ~gasp~, to go up to NY Chinatown with Emily and her karate (not karate, but that's the easy way to refer to it because I don't remember the Korean name. I think I might now, but I'd rather not mess it up) class. Her instructor ended up not being able to go and thus most of the class didn't, but we went with her friend Joel, his ex-girlfriend, and one of his friends from Princeton whom Joel didn't like, but couldn't think up a good excuse for. The latter fellow was named Alex, and he was kinda weird because despite being 24 or so, he looked like he was a 45? year old. Balding, hair up the back of his neck... *shudder*. Wasn't that bad a person though or anything. We had food in a little place that was pretty good. I got 'Rainbow Chicken' since I had no idea what was in it, and I wasn't dissapointed. We bought some cool stuff up there. My loot was a couple FFVIII posters, a Rei Ayanami wall scroll, nice looking paper globe (for lighting), some totally sweet bowls (black with nice solid white characters on the inside), and this cool coin with a dragon on one side and characters on the other. To get there we took the train from Princeton, which was cool, except Emily saw all these motorcycles and I missed them every time (she was by the window). Even one doing a couple wheelies! *smack* Atleast I got to see some really cool graffiti. We got back fairly late, 9:30 or 10, but even more importantly I was exhausted by then. That's significant because apparently everyone and their mother was at the Burke's, sort to meet Jacob's friend from Franklin Pierce, Aaron. The fact that it was late, I was tired, and contemplating going on a ride in the morning, meant that I wasn't too keen on going. Hearing it was a Halo fest made me not feel bad about staying home to sleep.
Saturday morning I woke up around 6:30/7 (thanks Kookatsu ... ) to see Eric online. o_0. It turned out being Mrs. Burke, who I talked to for awhile then brought donuts to. She said I should buy them a dozen if I was going out, and I told her I'd just make a trip, it's a motorcycle, it's fun. I figured I wouldn't leave without saying hi to monkey, but it was about quarter of eight so I decided to just play some video games. I had the choice of Halo, Madden, and Morrowind right in front of me.... you guessed it. Monkey ended up coming down in a few minutes anyway (apparently his mom woke him up, which was a dangerous thing with him sleeping in 'people over' mode), and watched me play, then went to the living room, fired up the other xbox and started playing, haha. I had planned on riding for the morning even though I wasn't heading out to Carlisle anymore, but the game was pretty fun... I finally put down the controller at 11:30 or so, lol.
Mary stopped by as I was leaving (she has a knack for coming to the Burke's as I'm putting my gear on) so I told her if she'd follow me home I'd give her the promised (pre license) ride. We went out for about an hour, I think, it was fun. :) We watched Indian Tv for a good hour (it was damned funny when the action scene came up. It looked like an Indian Micheal Jackson from the 'Bad' video). Larry came over and we sat on my porch for an hour or so thinking of something to do... I called Eric trying to find the Burke's (either) and he said his parents were having a party, so once Aaron came we all went there. It was actually pretty fun.
Sunday was when the ride was rescheduled for, but it half fell through and I had been thinking about not going anyway since I told Emily she'd have me for Sunday (she was busy all day Sat). We watched this sweet movie called 'Warriors' while she put my hair into braids. It's about a gang in 1970s or so NY, who goes to a huge meeting called by the leader of the most powerful gang. It's held under a city wide truce, and each gang sends 9 members. Some dillweed shoots the leader figure though, and then accuses the Warriors. The Warriors' home turf is Coney Island, far away from the meeting, and with word on the street that they committed the murder, every gang in NYC is after them - and they're unarmed. Emily was nearly done when the movie was over, and by the time it ended Ian, Monkey, Jeff, and Tristan had all come over. I think the braids look pretty cool. I was wearing a big dress shirt when I first looked at them so I felt waayyyyyy too white-Snoop-Dogg, lol. I worried about Slip-ka-not references too, but it's not like A) there's a resemblance or B) Slip-ka-not is really the standard for guys with braids.
We went and ate at the new Sal's, and again I tell you the place is great. I tried their pizza the other week and it rocked, and this time Monkey and I got these personal stromboli's... 4.95 and you can put as many toppings or whatever in as you want, and it's darned big, and super tasty. I told Erika she'd get her ride Sunday because well I finally could, so we got her on our way back from the restaurant, then with her on the back and Emily on the Honda, we went riding (after stopping to feed Emily's dogs and cats). We only did about 30 miles, but I had fun... my bike was running very smoothly, and Erika was a good passenger. She enjoyed it, too. After taking her back home Emily and I went to her house to watch 'Big Trouble.' I thought it was funny as hell, although it did seem to end fairly quickly. Heh heh, it was good.
It's weird how lingering distrust in happiness still messes with me now and then. I pause sometimes, internally, and think 'Man I'm just... happy.. with things right now'. Last night Emily and I were walking through a doorway in her house and it hit me, and my first reaction was 'Well this is where the killer comes in.' The depressed whiny fuckers in movies never get killed. It's always the happy couples, the cheerleaders, the guy who just made the business deal of his lifetime... I suppose they aren't true happiness people, but you know what I mean. I suppose it's to make you care about the movie... because really, if you're watching a movie and the high school girl who never does anything but get depressed and bitch about it, or maybe bitch about how she's so depressed she can't even bitch about being depressed... but is so miserable and worthless that she doesn't even deserve to be depressed, so she just feels nothing.. *ahem* anyway, if that intellectual goldmine was mercilessly slaughtered, would you cry, or be glad they finally got what they'd been begging for?
What I was originally getting at with that was that I thought it was funny my instinctive reaction was that I'd be murdered soon because of the general timeline of murder's within movies.
Very glad I wasn't slaughtered though.
Glancing at the clock, I realise that I soon need to go down to work. You miss hearing about my mom and such for today, *tear*. I hope to clean my room afte rwork, and do the dishes.. the two are driving me nuts. Heck the whole apartment is, I need to buy that bag for the vacuum... anyway, peace!
~red~

July 23rd moving

About twice a month I realise what the date is and go 'holy crap'. This summer is going to be over like, way too soon.
Two more hours till the DNS server refreshes, and tonight I'll be on my new host. It's a great group of unix folk who made a free server. You can get 20 megs of storage, 20 megs of email, yada yada for free, but I went ahead and donated and got 100 megs of storage... yummy, I can finally actually host something if I want to. I have a cool video I want to shwo you all, so check back tonight (like, 5:30/6) and you can watch it. It's only 800k, so even you dial-up kids out there can handle it.
I really want to get into making my own music again. I had kinda started a few years ago, but it got away from me. I need to grab some share/freeware and get cracking, hehe. Now that we know Noah's camcorder can be easily transferred onto his computer I want to do some work with that too... I've had some good ideas in the last few months that I had figured I'd just animate or something. :P
That girl ended up being Tara, which is cool because she's a good person afaik. She's here avoiding her mom, for a bit. Noah went somewhere or other last night and I was doing the dishes so I talked to her for a little while. She asked if I could run her to Wal-Mart for some stuff she needed and I figured what the heck.. you've gotta be up late once in awhile or you'll end up boring or something. It was kinda fun, and she bought my cheez-its for me. I love having a box in my toolbox so I can eats them through the day. Healthy? No. Delicious? Yep.
I really wanted to play AC last night with Jeff, but it just was not working. I was shut down by the storms for most of the night, and then when they came up I tried to log into my sdf account quickly and had forgotten the password. I couldn't let that go because it drives me insane, so I was trying to hack it or remember it for a long time. I remembered it while I was walking up the stairs from walking Emily down, a couple of hours later. By the time I was done dishes and back from Wal Mart though, Jeff was long asleep and I was way too tired to play by myself. I haven't played in like a week because I've been busy, haha, and I've been trying to! Atleast I know it isn't going to take over my life or something...
Well I'd best get down to work on the early side so I can leave on the same. bibi2u. ~red~

July 22nd reverse it

I came home and saw a "purse" thing and little female sandals inside the door. This always baffles me because it means someone turned around at some point and said, 'Oh look at that, there is a mat on the side of the door where everyone isn't trying to walk with 6 or 7 pairs of shoes on it', then left their footwear right in front of the doorway. But alas, it seems more and more people these days are completely without common sense. And if they're hanging out with Noah they aren't trying to build up more. Anyway it was kind of surprising because there was no car outside so that means they got here via RX-7, and Noah's away messages have consistently been whiny "I'm all alone and want to die without Carrie" bullshit. So his door is like wide open, and as I walk past and close it I see 4 legs. Hah hah hah. Aww :) I went to the bathroom then though, and look in at my washer and dryer to see a trendy girl's ensemble o_0. Whoooooooa. Lol, the 3rd and 4th legs did indeed have pants on too so I suppose it was storm related wet, but I thought the pieces made a pretty funny puzzle. Kinda disturbing, kinda funny puzzle.

Emily's rooster starts doing it's rooster thing at approximately 5 am. It does not stop. 2 hours less sleep than I'm used to, but I did get to drive first thing in the morning and I love that. Some Integra got right on my butt while I was behind this conversion van, so before the nice S curve on 82 S of 345 I slowed down even more, then destroyed him through it. Mmmmm cornering. I got Emily and Bo last night and we put on some Aphex Twin and drove in the storm. Driving to her house was amazing, I was right in the middle of the storm. I was seeing flashes left right, in front... and a few times all of my mirrors lit up bright white, and I could see the same bolt in all three, it was awesome. We parked on Hedge road then, the tops of a cornfield making the bottom of our horizon, and a farmhouse in front of us, with a few lights on in it and the accompanying barn. Made for a beautiful foreground for the storm, which rocked our socks. We stayed outside of the car for awhile, with the storm raging all around. Lightning bolts were hitting ridiculously close and on all sides... the only time I've been closer was in UT, when they were striking within 100 yards or so. These were crazy though - bolts that seemed to last atleast a second or two, multiples, and just the power in being so close to that much energy released. We got in the car once they were hitting a little closer than Bo and Emily's comforts preferred, and it began to rain rather heavily. We sat in it for probably a half an hour, then went back so that Emily could comfort the dogs. Someo f hers are very scared of thunder, heh. Come to think of it I bet Kookatsu was doing some funny stuff, lol.

Last evening I didn't do anything, and it was great. I was sitting at my computer, I think shortly after I updated, and going over all the things I could do. I didn't really want to though because I wanted to find some kind of relaxation... so I took my pen and book out to the porch and I just sat and wrote for awhile, there was great wind from the as-of-yet-to-come storm. Eventually I came inside and made the worst pancakes ever. Hell they weren't pancakes. I'd never tried using that mix before, and I don't reccomend it. Especially if you don't have measuring cups. My pan temperature was way off too, and that's fairly critical to pancaking. I still prefer from scratch though, because that's what I'm going to atleast partially blame my failure on.

So there's my latest in rewind, what's yours?
~red~

21st of july holdup

I was about to write this, before work this morning, and Jeff came up to tell me there was some guy outside waiting for an inspection... o_O? Mike bloody scheduled an 8 AM inspection appt, and told the guy he could wait. ... that guy is such a fricking twit. I almost always come in around 10, quarter after, Dave 10 after atleast. Grrr. I just wanna throw him off a cliff or something, except I know his last words or retarded laugh, scream, whatever, as he plummeted down would annoy me for eternity. No, not haunt, annoy.
Man the video version of Windowlicker can change the whole song to you.
My weekend was pretty damn cool. I damn near never.. remember.. Friday nights. Maybe my short term memory is limited to 2 days or something like that, I've got no idea, but that's weird. Oh right, I got it. I decided to just play it low because of the Mazda RevItUp autocross the next day. Emily and I chilled here and watched Battle Royale. Aaron's been talking about it for awhile, and Justin recently... the movie is awesome. Basic line being that the adults got scared of the kids, so they started taking a random 9th grade class each year, then putting them on an abandoned island where they had to fight to the death (well until 1 remained). It was great, haha, on a lot of levels. The "Man Japanese are crazy" level, the totally badass scale, and just as a good movie. Went to bed by like 10 or 11 to..
.. get up Saturday before RevItUp. I tried to get out to Ten Thousand Villages' warehouse sale, to use the gift certificate my aunt gave me, but I had to turn around when I got there without even going in, so that I wouldn't be too late returning home to leave. Rob rode in Noah's car and I followed on my motorcycle, and we set off for the autox. We didn't go the right way at all, because I left the directions up to Noah. (I know I know, but I figured a promotional event, they'd make it easy). It was on Route 1 in Ben Salem, well Noah must've just searched for Route 1, because we went to the Route 1 in like S Philly. (suburbs I suppose). Tooled around in traffic there till Noah stopped at a gas station and he or Rob asked, then we knew where we were going - N up 276 *smack head*. Oh well. When we were in the traditional traffic jam at the curve, some guy in a turbo 911 was fawning over my bike... I told him I liked his ride too, haha. I love my sexy bike. We got up there, an hour late, but we were still allowed to run - just couldn't fit in any practice time before our timed runs. So my first run was crap, a 37.679 to the pro index of 29.something. We did a number of the things there then - checked out the GT and F1 cars they had (the GT was a 4 rotor 2nd gen with 600+ horsepower), the slalom clinic, brake and turn, the go carts... the go carts were awesome. They were damn fast enough for the course, and I lapped 5 of the other 7 people I was racing, including Rob, and never got passed - w0ot :) I picked a great line and knew how to slide it a little bit without scrubbing off too much speed. We did the practice course then, a couple of times. It was a lot easier than the timed one, and I was warmed up, so I ran a mid 23 my first run, then pulled a low 21 - 21.395 or something like that, my second. Noah's first run beat my first, or almost, something like that, but my second was better than either of his I believe. Then to my last timed run - I knocked it down to 33.675 (not sure about the last two digits), which I was really excited about. I used the "manual" instead, shifting into 2nd early on and leaving it there, and was a lot more aggressive. Had my head in it too. I didn't know the last series of corners well enough though since there was so much time in between my runs and there was no diagram of the track. I know with another run I could have taken atleast a second and a half, maybe 2 off.... I think I could have gotten into the mid 30, or low 31 second range. Oh well, that's the game. I test drove a 2003 MazdaSpeed Proteg� as well, it was pretty nice. Upon filling out an exit survey on your way out, you got a free hat, and a book on the RX-8 which I have yet to read (btw, they look sooooo nice in person... pictures and even the one in X2, do it no justice.) I kinda want one, but not anywhere near as much as a 3rd gen 7. By the time I got home I had done about 220-250 miles on the motorcycle that day, haha, I was pretty beat, especially being in the sun at the autox. The Mazda thing was so fun though.. great way to spend $39. After I rested a little bit I took Emily up to the church to sharpen up some parts of her riding, before we went on the road. She's doing great, and I feel cool looking in my rearview mirror and seeing her on a bike. I guess cause I taught her, and she's my girlfriend... I don't know what exactly, it's kinda like pride. A lot protective too though. Once someone was closer to her than I wanted them to be and I really wanted to drop back and be between them, but I figured that'd just startle her. So word to the wise, don't tailgate any little Hondas you see, heh. CAUSE I'LL KICK OUT YOUR WINDOWS AND STEAL ALL YOUR BOOTY - ARRRR!!!
Motorcycle pirates rock.
Sunday Emily and I got up at 7 am to go ride with Dave. We went to Chesapeake Village, or something like that... it's this great town right on the CD canal, and we had breakfast on the edge watching the boats go by and such. we walked the dock looking at ships (there was this wicked 3 mast like.. pirate ship there, omg it rocked, even though it had a metal hull), and then around the town, before Dave had to head back. Emily and I decided to dip down south and see the Annapolis Bay Bridge, which was awesome on a motorcycle. We went over a few bridges, I love them on the bike because it's so much more open, and I can get right up to the edge - actually look down at the water. We came up trying to avoid Baltimore as best we could but didn't do the best job.. I learned a lot though. I used to do that with the Lancaster kids all the time but didn't really have it down pat... suffice to say I do now and know exactly what to do next time. We got home around 3 in the afternoon, after something like 350 miles. Sore butts, but smiling - it was awesome. Emily split to feed her dogs and such, and I called up Jared because we had talked about doing something the day before. I wanted to relax so we decided to hit up Green Hills Golf Course, figuring it had to be cheap as hell, what with it's pathetic nature and all. The guy working there was a total arrogant fucktard. Immediately, off the bat, he treated us with total disrespect, which pissed me off because I was giving it. I know he obviously didn't care, but he was delivering some of the worst customer service I've come across. Hell he was the rudest person I've run into in likely weeks. (though in MD I thought I was in the Harley state. Whole state I saw 2 or 3 sportbikes, and oh.... 400+ Harleys, easily. A lot of them were the elitist retards that think they're too cool to wave to other bikers though. Whatever, I don't care, but it's like someone rejecting a high five, heh.) Golfing wasn't that bad though, Bo was with us too. He's damn good for not having played in 6 years, haha. We all did pretty crappy but less than double par. I was driving great, but my short was on and off. When I got home I bathed and stuff then slept over at Emily's. All the bedrooms in her house are down a hallway at one end, it's really neat. Hardwood, and it's dark and cold back there. And her all white cat China ( I call it the opium cat) sleeps with her every night, so it was wrapped above our heads. I was completely exhausted, same as Saturday night. Then I came into work, and la de da to that.
Hmm. In thinking about going on, and scrolling up, I see you've already made it through quite a block of text, so I'll spare you for now and hope a time I can write it comes up soon, or ever. 'till then, I'm out.
~red~

16j the stronghold

I like working here. Dave is going to help me straighten out my forks tonight. It's so relaxed, working here, it's ... nice. I'm usually down there from shortly after 8 until 4:30 or so, and get paid 7 and a half hours, but that's because I can't seem to chop a lunch at 30 minutes. Eh, who cares - eating is important!
"Ahhhhh fuggit, my train of thought is gone. I had it and lost it like 5 times, I made an update as I walked upstairs, and now it's gone. Meh, this is how I go like 5 days without updating. I get a nice post in my head, then I sit down on my computer and go.... ooh lookit that!"
'That' is usually a motorcycle video, or something shiny. :grin: This morning I woke up and as I walked out to the kitchen I was thinking 'uuugh I don't wanna see those dishes in the sink' (Yeah mom, I am eating those words), and then I got out there to the sweet surprise of rememebring I had cleaned them all last night! Haha, gooo me! I did it by washing them in the commercial breaks during Smallville. Larry's right, that show is pretty cool. It kinda frustrates me at times - i.e. they apparently have a desperate wanting to make a number of the character's sexual, I suppose because it's a lot easier to use a character like that than with their personality, but because it's friggin Kent clark, and the chicky he likes is all wholesome and such as well, they can't. So the two episodes I can remember (I've maybe seen 3) both involved some lameass excuse to make the character's whores. Last night it was a long extinct plant being resurrected by using a meteor fragment (from Krypton) to irradiate a sample of the dead plant's cells to bring it back. The plant did this little dance when it saw someone then shot pollen into their face which caused them to revert to 'the basest of human desires' and such - aka they are all horny assholes. I saw it as an excuse for the producer's to get Kristin Kreuk in her underwear (on the air). *shrug* But hey, I watched it and it was still a pretty cool episode, I suppose.
Maybe it's all these kinds of negative beliefs about human nature that lead to lame ass excuses and such, like 'hey baby, it's in my Dee Ennnnn ayyyyyyyy' (that ayyy was like the Fonz). If we all portrayed base human nature as considerate of others, or kind.... well maybe we'd be more trained to think that's the way we were 'meant' to be. Maybe back in the day some writer decided to do a weird novel about human nature being evil, and then it sold so well that... no, wait a second. That writer would have to be God or at best biblical, because the Bible tells us human nature is evil.
This is all Jesus' fault!
~red~

15j like this, like that

Last night I intended to fix my bike, then do the dishes, and then watch a comedy. That's what I wanted to do. I figured out the problem with the pulling - my front forks are bent to the left about an inch. (that's a HUGE amount). So I'm hoping to buy Rob's from him. I need to fix the starting problem as well, but I came upstairs to get a key and was horribly distracted. I ended up calling my mom then to get me corn on the cob so that I could eat it for dinner. I had her get me 6 ears and set out to find someone to help me eat it... but... noone I talked to liked it. Wth? Oh well. So I went to her house to eat it with her and Erika. I ate 4 ears anyway... :) They were short though. Then I intended to leave but Jeff was coming over there... we listened to my CDs with Erika in the backyard, so she could kinda tell me what she wanted copies of. Err, that is I'll be keeping my backups at my mom's house, so that they are safe in case a fire destroys my primary copies of CDs. *cough*. I came home then, and soon thereafter Emily called me because she was done at Karate. Jeff and I went with her to take Bo to his mom's house to get his car title signed, and we were there for a couple hours. His parents were really nice though, and it was fun looking through the stuff from HS he had left there. And I got a set of golf clubs out of it! Can't beat that.
The trip to NY Chinatown was supposed to be this Friday, but folks in emily's karate class aren't sharp as they should be, so it's next Friday now. I was looking forward to it, but I wasn't eager to not have a day's pay that soon, so whatever - it works out. Hopefully I'll have time to get the forks in before this weekend this way as well. That would be.. keen. I really wanna take my kitty up to Connecticut, absolutely can't though without the other forks. It's really hard on my arm to compensate for the bent fork. Between that and the starting problem I've been riding a lot lot less than usual, which totally sucks. Did do a sweet ride at about midnight the other day with Emily... we went down 82 until we hit 345, then took that west to 10 and came up that. Beautiful night. I should have this starting thing sorted out tonight after work though, so ... here's hoping. I wanted to put a set of better forks in the bike (like from a GSXR or something) but to do so I'd have to at bare minimum swap the brakes out as well, and likely the rotor and thus the wheel. So, forget that - too poor.
And I really shouldn't be doing any of this because I need to buying a root canal soon, but what the flying fuckmonkey. I put $450 into these bloody rat bastard teeth and I need a root canal? Fug that. It can wait. ... kinda :\
Well I'm excited to get working on my bike so I want to get down to work and get it out of the way. Looking back I made another of those 'this is what I did' posts that are usually pretty boring to read, despite setting out with something to say. I guess that's usually right after the what I've done part, but, now time steaks it. Oh well.
~red~

14j ew, morning
I didn't feel like getting up 15 minutes ago... in bed was feeling pretty good to me, I don't see why I should have to change that! Work. Right. The last X days have been the ones where I think about updating about 5 times a day, but don't get to do it because of whatever arising. I had a bit of a yuppie weekend this one past. On Saturday I played Tennis for what was essentially the first time, and last night I tried golf for the first time. It wasn't so bad. I never realised how peaceful it is out on the golf course. Well, unless Steingingigna is throwing his club right then. Into a tree. ;) (it only happened once). Don't mistake me - I am in full accordance with the golf based statements of George Carlin and Robins Williams in their stand-ups, but it was pretty fun. Don't think I could pay to do it though. Last week was kinda cool, even though Dave was gone for it. It was just Jeff, Mike, and I in the shop, and I had a couple of projects to do. One was a whole crapload of work on this Isuzu Trooper - axle seals, brakes, exhaust. I taught myself to weld because I had to put a hanger on part of the exhaust. Then I had to get this fellow's tractor running. Mike thought that by 'always meant to get around to jetting my carbs' I meant that I had ever worked on a carburetor before. Well I hadn't, but in 20 minutes I taught myself how they worked. Took the tractor's apart, figured out why it wouldn't run, and fixed it. Then I got to drive a tractor around! That part was cool, it was one of the old school tractor's, like.. 1950's ooh wow it has rubber tires old. I felt pretty accomplished having taught myself both to weld and about a carb in one day. Plus it balanced out the tennis and golf in my weekend and leaves me a more round person than if they had been the things of note across 2 days. Monkey and I went to a bunch of yard sales on Saturday morning which was fun too. We got our rackets there and I got a bunch of things... a game boy color, some old pictures, a bracelet and so forth. And my car is in only my name now, finally transferred it out of my mother and I's. Not that big a deal to me but she was gr33fin about it, and I think it's kinda cool to have her name off the title I guess, heh. Mah car!
Last night after golf we were supposed to play capture the flag. It kinda flopped though, and by kinda I mean totally. Mary got there around 9 when we were supposed to meet, and other people kinda trickled in... Risbon and Lauren like 20 after, Bo and Monkey at like 9:30 or something. At about 9:40 we had 10 people, including Larry, Steinginga and I. Josh was... being himself and it was driving me f'in nuts. I think it was when he said 'that's hot' again that I was like okay, you know what, I can't stand my friends right now. I swear to god, if I had the resourcse I'd brand his fucking ass the next time he said 'that's hot' just so he could understand what the phrase meant. As if anything retains meaning after you say it FIFTEEN TIMES AN HOUR. That's bad enough, it was every 5 minutes through Pirates of the Caribbean that pissed me off. And the people behind us. So anyway, I just said frigg it, and I went home to bed. Good choice, as I was dang tired driving home. Didn't sleep that well, but it was okay.
I registered my SDF account, I can't wait to get it all set up and tweaked. That'll mean a site move to a real host without ads and with more than 15 megs of space and a 5 mb per day data transfer, which = WOO. Anyway... down down down.
~red~

ju.9.ly :)
I think I'm at a fairly satisfied point right now. I really want my car in perfect shape, and my motorcycle aligned, but, those are little things. I checked the beater's brakes, and they aren't going to fail on me. That's a perk. One axle seal was gone (or maybe came apart when I took the drum off, I think that may have been it actually lol), irregardless I put a new one in. Cost me $2! *faints*. I went to give Dave his rain-pants back and he told me to keep them! :O That was pretty cool because they are freaking awesome. Just need a jacket now. He is at a BMW rally the rest of this week(end), sounds like it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun for him. Downside is I am with Mike, perk is Jeff is there too. So far working with Jeff has been a lot of fun. It helps that his starting coincided with my FINALLY being friggin healthy for once, but I've been in a good mood this week. I didn't get to see Emily yesterday at all! waaaaiiiiit for it. Ok, now that you've said 'Wah!' we can move on. ;) I really like her and going out with her. I like my room, my bed, my computer. Computer needs a little upgrading though, come to think of it. As soon as I get all that extra money... (RARRR I WANT A DIGITAL CAMERA!).
So yesterday someone was pushing their motorcycle up to the shop. I went out to see if they needed help... it was friggin Wynn Graydus! I couldn't believe it! He's a kid from high school, we were going to ride when he got done work, he came and we went over to his house. His house is awesome, a super old school farmhouse, and they have all these old motorcycles and like... 3 2nd gen civics, an accord, and a civic hatchback, lol. Wynn has 2 Emus, there was a peacock, a calf, some chickens, an evil Monty Python bunny, and his mom has 2 horses. 5 people in his family have motorcycle licenses !! His brothers (that makes 3 Graydus') and I rode into French Creek and back, it was pretty cool. There was a cop camping the farm after Jenn Good's house on Kline rode. Those guys really need something to do O_o. Wynn even gave me this kickass aeronautical chart of NY because it's outdated, so he doesn't need it. (he friggin flies too!) Well, I'm gonna update my video drivers and hang up my slammin poster.... peace :)
~red~

8thAnd then...
Sunday night I was laying down to go to bed and my hair was driving me nuts, no idea why. So I got up and washed it. It was nice going back to bed all wet and such, because it really cooled me off. I had a great sandwhich last night. I had a plum last night, and last week nectarines. I like fruit. And vegetables, I got myself some radishes. I brought my mattress over from my mother's so my bed is finally complete. I slept better last night.
Ok, enough of the sentence fragment game. I wish I had fallen asleep with Emily last night, I'd rather be next to her right now. Silly working in the morning and whatnot. Oh well, atleast I'm healthy. That's a really nice change. Erika's home now. I think that's a good thing. I really need to take her her Mellon Collie CDs though. She keeps asking and I keep forgetting... well it's more I don't go over there, then I do go over spontaneously, so I don't have the CDs. I'm listening to the chillout channel right now, on DI. I love this radio station, I listened to it half the time when I was just on dial-up. On a side note, having broadband in your house is totally sweet. It feels like my house. Last night I came back from big Greg's and Emily was doing the dishes. I managed to shoo her out in time to do the bad ones, thankfully. I cleaned the litter box then, took out all the trash, and put a handle on the screendoor. Cleaned off the stove and countertop as well, and the knife set I got the other day. It's a pretty sweet knife set, even includes kitchen shears. :) Another night cleaning, it'll be in my room, and a vacuum cleaner and I think I'll have this place the way I want it. Oh, and a mop. My kitchen floor is bad. Wait, there is one glaring error remaining steadfast in this place being 'how I want it', but it's a lot tougher to remove than a stain or something. I have my glass on a stool I brought from my mom's house, it's a really nice piece of home to have with me. These stools have seen so much, haha, I can't believe they are all together. Go stools!
I find myself looking past a lot. Looking past people, looking past things... when I ride I'm always looking at the hills, trying to look over them, trying to see something I haven't. Imagining I'm nowhere I know.
I'm strangely tired this morning even though I feel I slept well. I guess I'll wake up when I get moving/working. And switch to something besides this ambient trance, haha.
peace.
~red~

j7creativity
Another one of those few day stretches where I really want to update and get close to it 1000 times, but then something happens or I leave, etcetera. My weekend was okay. I was sick all through Friday, so I'd go somewhere for a little bit, come home and recuperate, go again... but I made it. In the morning I went to see T3 with Emily, Alex, and Anna. I thought it was kinda eh. I don't know if it was my mood, or if I've finally actually seen too many of the same style car chases/action scenes, but it really didn't excite me. I think a large part of it was the fact that TX sucked. T2 was on yesterday, and the T1000 is just so hardcore. And like, ice cold fuckin cool. That dumbass chick... wasn't. And Claire Danes annoys me as a general rule. That evening I went to Mary's house for her bonfire, and Monkey and I drove into Morgantown and got fireworks. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I love exploding things. Had some pretty good results with duct taping them together too. I got stung by this wasp just as I was leaving though, it was worse than I rememebr them being, it burned/stung for a long while! I think it has a lot to do with it's having got me on the inside of my upper arm though, as I understand from tattoo talk, that's a pretty damn sensitive area. Saturday I... ummm... I don't remember the morning much, but Emily, Jared, Jon, Bo, and I went and played Frisbee Golf in the afternoon. It totally pwned! We got bitchslapped by this fast and hard thunderstorm and decided to play through it. I made it commando/predator style. It was cool as hell chasing down your frisbee in dark woods through pouring rain you could barely see in. Haha it rocked. Bo and I tied for second and Monkey won, but that's cause we didn't count the commando round. I whipped up in that one. After drying off and some chinese food we went to the Burke's and watched Super Troopers again... heh heh heh. I came home and as I was laying in bed though, ahh ok sweet, don't need an alarm tomorrow, I'll get up and do dishes and clean the house till 12 or so, then my car early afternoon, ride a bit then Emily will be home. I rolled over and then *lightning bolt* tomorrow is the ephrata rally! D'oh! So I set my alarm and pffffffffffffffffft there went cleaning. Had an okay ride out there, sweeeeet ride on the way back. And there were again, some really really cool bikes there :) Emily and I went to the Burke's then later to hang out with Jared.. got some french fries at VnS and About Schmidt. Wasn't it advertised as a hilarious comedy?! It was depressing. Not dark comedy, ie Royal Tennenbaums, Donnie Darko... this.. was just.. depressing. Pissed me off, lol. Oh well. I gotta get down to work, mebbe I'll get more of this this evening.
Mea Culpa - Don't Stay
~red~

julie's 2ndit's only 10% juice
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being." - Johann W. Von Goethe (1749-1832)
le sigh. So my fruit punch box is telling me to be more tolerant, or help become better, or that's how I'm interpreting it. Don't bitch at people, help them. It's right, and it's what I would say. And Noah... he's not so bad. There are definitely perks, he pays his rent no problem, he doesn't make much noise at all, he isn't an obnoxious person at all. Could have it sooo much worse. On the other hand... well you read that already. On the other hand... see, my point is that there are two hands.
I tried using my computer for awhile tonight (I wanted to make something in GIMP), but my eyes burned too much. Wanted to cook, but I was wiped. Wanted to read, eyes burned. Tried the computer again... tried TV. And on and on and on. (that last clip was sung in my head.. Built To Spill's 'Stab').
I'm sick again, see. It sucks. Throat has hurt like crazy and sinuses have been like 'err gr33f2u' for 2 nights and days, so I said to myself, hmm... I'll lookit my throat. Grab a shop light, peer in... OMG. I'm all white and bad. So, I've been pretty damn tired... like exhausted.. for some time now, which is totally out of character. I figured it was because of working, but actually because of working through the pain of a fucking cavity from hell 'that was just the other's seating in'. That'd exhaust anyone. But my teef don't really hurt much anymore (for which I'm thankful!), and I'm still tired, though working a full day in hot hot heat would make you that way, but not sleeping 9 hours and relaxing at night when possible. Argh. So, by symptoms, I've got either strep, or mono. If I've got strep it's kinda amazing because I had strep like symptoms (except not as white) a few weeks ago in that 'whole mouth is trying to murder me' hell week. And I've been on penicillin for over a week now, how would I get strep? I think the answer is I'm me.
The book which I'm reading is Dragons of a Fallen Sun. It follows after Dragons of Summer Flame (4th in the Chaos wars) and starts off the 3 book series for the War of the Souls. Been meaning to read it for like ever - when I finished Dragons of Summer Flame in high school I was dying for the next book (this hadn't been released yet). I've always read such older series (like.. Tolkien) or single books, I don't know what it's like to wait for the next book in a series to release. I know for a while after finishing Dragons of Summer Flame it did totally suck, because I was so desperately curious. That and outside books were the only entertaining thing in 90% of my classes. It's been some time since i read. I read some book or other Liz had to read for school because she asked my opinion on it (so I bought it and read it in a night or two, it was fun) a few months ago, but other than that... been a little while. So nice to get lost in it again.
i'm thirsty now, and I've been thinking about playing some MotoGP3 for a few days now but haven't... I think I'll work on both those desires.
~red~

jewslie 2ndmonths are racist
I've slept so crappy the last couple of nights. I wake up a billion times a night with the stuffy nose that you can't blow... and always just one side, to drive you nuts. My mouth hurts like they can when you're really dehydrated, but seriously I'm pumping so much water through my friends are calling me fire hydrant guy. Yeah, I think the name sucks too. I fed Kookatsu at 7:30 today instead of 6:30 today though! One step closer to having her used to eating when I wake up instead of um, way earlier.
Sometimes Noah says things to me, and I can't even reply. To keep from staring at him in absolute fucking disbelief, I have to go into my room.
"Oh yeah, the washer did that thing again."
"The too much water thing?"
"Yeah, that."
"And?"
"And what?"
"Well what did you do?"
"I put them in the dryer."
(peek into my mind: 'omfg this kid is challenged') "No Noah.. what did you do with the water."
"Nothing."
*blink* ... "So where is it?" (the options here are drainpan and carpeted floor pretty much... $600 security deposit is dancing in my head)
"In the little thingy under the washer."
(mind: So are you going to clea... how can you just leave i... are you fucking retar... did you ever have to do anything for yourse... o_O!?)
It's like saying 'Oh by the way, I stabbed myself in the face today.' 'Oh really.. how's that working out for you?' 'It hurts.' Except that's moderately funny, because you're picturing someone with a knife in your face. This is that kind of stupidity, but maddening.
I know I know, you're in a bad place and probably stupid if you're posting about the person you live with on your website, but hey that used to be all I did here, and irregardless: o-m-f-g. The stories I could tell. Just staring is the only way I can describe how they make you feel. You think... what!?. I'm thinking about getting a window AC unit and would've asked him to split it... but hey, he doesn't wanna split food anymore (McDonald's best friend now), and do I really wanna go through the hassle of trying to make him actually follow through then once I buy it? Neeope. I'm thinking of getting it and sticking it in my bedroom window. The hall window would be perfect for it, since there is shade there, and it would do the whole apartment well. But I kinda feel like being a prick about it. On the other hand, I don't think that's me... and maybe if i put an air conditioner in, he'd start wearing a fucking shirt. I know it's where he lives and all, and I think you should be able to chill without a shirt, maybe, where you live, sometimes, or something, but fuck. If I had the body of a 12 year old, I sure as fuck wouldn't be flagrant about it. Flagrant, yes, that could be an accurate adjective. See the real reason I'd feel bad would be because I wasn't cooling the living room for guests, but... I find when my friends come over we don't sit out there much more anyway. Oh decisions. Haha, I bet if I put it in the hallway, he'd moan that his hammock couldn't swing. There's an excuse :P The way he 'hung' it is so scary, I sure as shit don't sit in it. Especially cause I stabbed my foot testing the beam for it. That shit still hurts, fuckin A.
Moving on though.
I got to ride at work yesterday, that was sweet. I was thinking about how Emily and I hadn't ridden in awhile, so we went out later too, it was great. Even the part where I almost hit another deer (ok I reacted and braked in time, but had I not braked!) going less than 10 miles per hour. That's right. We were barely moving, like idling second gear, I was looking for this pond back in the woods Dustin and I found the one day on our bikes, and was of course glancing forward all the time. Looking ahead, glance to the side, look ahead again, FWOOSH fucking doe streaks across the road at goddamn mach 19. I asked Emily if she saw it and she said she only saw a blur, heh. I aptly screamed, while pointing to my front fender, 'CAN'T YOU READ THE FUCKING SIGN?'.
They really really hate me. But fuck em. I ended up putting in 50 or 60 miles yesterday without even realising it, which was nice. Had a lot of fun cruising in the sunset time after I left my mom's, even got a couple of lightning bugs on the visor, that was sweet! :) I've only got two more days of work this week too, counting today.. Friday, being the 4th, is a paid holiday for me. Woo, I love my job! I got half my raise as well. I'm getting a dollar raise for earning my inspection license, but since I can't actually do more for them than I can now until the card comes in the mail, we decided on half the raise now, half when I can (legally) inspect cars. Fair to me! Well, speaking of work, I've gotta get down there. Peace out niggas.
~red~

30jI've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
Pretty busy weekend. Friday I gave Jeff a ride on the bike after work, and then I remember being at his house with Emily, haha.. but the rest of the night isn't all too clear. Saturday I got up and went on a Katana Planet ride. I had put in a brighter headlight bulb, turns out my charging system doesn't do brighter bulbs, so I had to push start my bike all day. Ah well, atleast there wasn't any long term damage - just had to trickle charge the battery when I got home, and of course put the stock bulb back in. When I got back I was totally dead so Emily and I layed around on the couch for an hour so, heh. I decided to take George's car up to the fireworks because it isn't good for cars to sit forever, and I couldn't stand seeing it so dirty. All the horses make a ton of dust and any vehicle in the back gets hammered, it sucks. But it's all shiny and nice now. The fireworks were great because it's been way too long since I saw booms and such. Lots of people came too. We stuck around for a while afterwards, I played frisbee with Justo... I love frizzib man. Post that the marriot kids were going to Micheal's diner, but I neither felt like driving out there or staying there till 1. So Wang, Lauren, Emily, Bo and I went to Jeff dogs and hung out for awhile, but again it wasn't so long until I was dead and ready for bed. I had nice sleeping in time Sunday, then got up and fixed my bike, bathed, did something or other I can't remember (just remember I did something else...hmm) then took the Honda to Elise's birhday party because my Kat's battery was still charging. Elise is Dave's younger sister (dave from the arcade, not my boss), and it was her 16th... her friends reminded me of my sister's friends, it was kind of weird. Food was great though, They had these wings with sticks through em that had been grilled, so I took 2 to try, and Dave's aunt or whoever she was was like '2? Come on, I eat 5!' . Well I couldn't take that, so I ate 4. I had to get back sooner than I felt like to give Susan a ride on the motorcycle, and then Bo and I went to the Burke's where Megan's graduation party was. I brought her out of the house with her eyes covered and everything and then handed her the keys to the beater, lol. It was pretty funny, she laughed a lot, but I didn't actually give it to her because well... trust me, she doesn't want it, even with the omni-adjustable passenger seat. I got stuffed there as well, and I forgot to mention Jeff couldn't finish his dinner Saturday when I picked him up for the fireworks, so I got crazy good steak, and Italian um.. nice cooked tomatoes, and broccoli. It was totally sweet. I went over to Emily's after a nice half game of badminton at the burke's to read while she played Metroid because I'd been trying to start this book for a week but wasn't making the time. Man I love reading! I started the first book in the War of the Souls.. once I'm done the trilogy it'll be time for the 5th Harry Potter which sounds hella cool. I was at Emily's for about 45 minutes before we had to leave to get to the theater on time, where a bunch of us saw 28 Days later. The movie was bomb biggity awesome imho, but I'll have to tell you about it later... gotta go back to work.
love and-a peace,
~red~

25j abby nazi road
I feel like hell and I need to be at work *looks* now or in a few minutes. Last night I came home and some alarm was screaming in the shop. It said 'Tank Alarm' on it, internal security system. I tried callin Dave's house a few times, and went up and rang his doorbell, and knocked for awhile, but noone woke up. Rarr. So I went back to Jeff's to sleep, and slept on his bedroom floor. I woke up in the middle of the night pretty cold (just took a sheet) and went to his living room and got the comforter that I had seen there. I curled up tight under it and shivered myself to sleep. It's been a long time since I've shivered like that, it was interesting. I woke up at about 6 and couldn't get back to sleep despite not needing to be up until 7 or so. So at 6:30 I came home and figured I'd sleep here for a half an hour, maybe reset my back.. but I was still too scared so I just trolled around looking at motorcycle pictures. I don't know if that's a carbon monoxide alert, or leaking gas, or god knows what... I didn't want to risk it.
Earlier I went to the Burke's after work to get tickets I had bought for Liz (she has no cc or ticketmaster account) and had them print out for me, then to Liz's to give them to her and get the money for them. I talked to her for I don't know, 20 minutes or something. Her parents came home with Justine (her niece, short of two years old).. it was crazy. I hadn't seen the kid in a year, when she was still all infant looking, and now she's toddler style... kid seems sharp too, Liz says she's smart as hell. She was so big though! Hudson (Dave's 3 year old) is getting big too, because I remember him in his 1 and a half or so time... now he's cruisin all over asking questions left and right... he wouldn't talk before.
I want to just ride all night tonight after work, go get lost. I'm running out of roads within a 30 mile or so radius that I don't know. There are still a bunch to the N, but there are so many deer up there, and around Reading cars, I don't do it much. I've known to the W for years, I've almost got the E down, and S pretty much as well. I'm still getting better with my bike, it's crazy. The other day I looked at my speedo through a corner I was just doing at a comfortable fast speed (but not ripping), and it was a good 10 or so over what I was comfortable with maybe a month ago. I didn't realise how much I had been riding until I was inspecting my bike for my tactile inspection test - I have about 4/32nds left of tread on my tires. Half of what I got it with! Looks like I will be buying tires this season after all. I can't wait until they are really low so I can do a sweetass burnout.... B) . I love what I've done with my bike, the paint, plate mod, taillight, exhaust... just need to tune it and I'll be happy for awhile. Doubt I'll get around to that anytime soon though. Oh, and the 80/100 watt headlight bulb... that'll be nice. I'm in money saving mode until July though, but I may not need to wait that long.. I put myself in it without remembering that $165 were coming back into my bank acct (expensive tickets!). I don't really mind, it's good for me anyway... tough to save money though with these dental bills! I've gotta go down to where I make the money now though... till later.
~red~

j.21 rain rain rain
Soo much rain. I'm still grateful for those few nice days we had, but the end of this week and weekend being crazy rain kind of sucked. The perk was yesterday's rain. 90% of the roads around here were flooded to the max, it was really fun. My tires are designed for romping around in the rain, so things most cars did at 15mph I was swerving in at 35. I ended up picking up Jamie at Sammy's house because she was scared to drive (and Sammy), then getting Aaron, to go get something to eat. Once we got to Morgantown none of them wanted to eat, even though I had asked them a few times whether they did. Le sigh. We were going to go to the Burke's from there, but Jamie was totally flipping the fuck out in my car so I decided to just take her back to her's. She was crying every 2 seconds about how we were going to die, yada yada. My passenger wiper wasn't going - big fricking whoop, I'm on the driver's side. I was going slow as all fuck, not like I was trying to scare anyone, then she started touching the inside of my windows all over the place (that's such a fucking pain in the ass to clean later), and making fun of how my dash is dirty. That's what happens when they paint your car with the window cracked, and I don't have time to clean everything I'd like to. Made fun of the car because I stalled it once having got 3rd instead of 1st to start out on a hill - I can feel which it is by letting the clutch out a bit, but she was so wet in the airbox when I tried to feel, instead of bogging a little she just stalled. I hate it when people make fun of my car, especially because 99.9999% of them have no idea what the fuck they are talking about. 10 minutes after she greases up my windows, she says 'Oh wow, you're right, that is really nasty to look through.' ;nbsp;nbsp ...
On Friday Dave and I were done working for the most part by 3. He went to find a lawn mower (and ended up getting a commercial grade zero turn radius with 72 inch deck.. holy fuck) and I babysat the shop. I decided since I had the time, I'd start on a fender mod for my bike. Most people just hack off the whole thing and then make a new bracket for their plate - this is a newer katana, but here's an example. I think that looks goofy because the plate is so alone and dinky... looks kinda cheap. Plus riding behind people with them sucks, they throw rocks all over the place. And the fender is there for a reason, no fender in the rain means you can get pretty danged dirty, remember riding your bike in the rain? Instead of hacking it, I just trimmed mine. My plate used to hang down from the fender, the top of it bolted onto the lowermost portion of the fender. I raised it up and bolted it to the fender... looks a lot cleaner now, and kinda stealth because it's directly under the plate light's rain guard thingy that hangs out. I'll have pictures.... sometime. I painted the bulb red too, haven't had a chance yet to see it at night. Using multiple light coats of spray paint, you can make a regular bulb into a color, works better than you'd think. It lets the plate glow a little bit rosy instead of just white, I think it will be nice. My plan is to put a little red neon above the plate though, I think that will kick butt. Really can't spend much money right now though, it's the bill time of the month. All of my bills are due between the 7th and 15th of each month, but they tell me about them now. It's nice, because I can save up :P
Welp, Binns and I are going to tighten his chain and then go out and ride. Till next time.
~red~

june 17th that's me in the corner
I think Dave and I are around each other too much, we're starting to do wierd vibe things. All too often I'll swear I only thought of a song and he'll sing it like 10 minutes later, but I figure I must've hummed or something. Today I was working on this Stoltzfus van on Y side of the shop while Dave was in the office on the other X side of the shop. I remember thinking about REM (goodness knows why), and Liz saying to me a few days or whatever ago that she had been listening to a lot of REM and it worried her. I thought about how whoop dee fucking doo why would it worry you, they're a good band, and how I don't really care for much of them, but always liked 'Night Swimming'. About an hour later, just as I was leaving for lunch, Dave says 'That's me in the corner..'. He spouts all sorts of random lines from songs and commercials while he works, but I looked up from washing my hands and asked if he was singing REM.
'I dunno, is that what that is?'
'Losing my religion?
'Yep... guess I was.'
'Whoa, that's weird (etcetera)'
... now my Tori cover of it came on shuffle, that's a weird coincidence. Seriously though, I think Dave and I have linked minds or something.. *wiggles eyebrows*

I have a magical toaster. I bought it at Sam's club when Rob and I went ages ago, and it's cool, but weird. See, no matter how you toast the bread, bagel, whatever you shove into it, it never stays warm for even a minute. Generally within 20 seconds it's cold. Toasted very nicely... but it freaks me out. Plus the butter doesn't melt as well! And I like it hot.. (some like it coooool [remember that commercial brandoi?]). I'm eating some soup, picking the flavor was easy today. Last night I had two cans and I asked Emily which flavor I should eat. It went like this:
'Should I eat some HOney Roasted Ham with Potatoes or some Honey Roasted Ha.. damnit!'
So the choice was easy today.
My teeth hurt like the fuckers they are. This morning I caved and called the dentist. My appointment's this afternoon, we'll see how that goes. This evening I am going to pick out some gloves today (going to Martins' and then Cycle Max if the former doesn't have what I want) because the $14 batting gloves I've been wearing A) really won't protect me for crap and B) are totally falling apart. I really want these super fucking hardcore gloves. They come in red too, they're so bitching... they mention the Borg in the review for god's sake. But... I'm not dropping $170 on gloves, as much as I want to.
Annnnd I'm done.
~red~

june 16th better weather
This weekend's weather has been pretty nice. I got a lot done this weekend too, which was great. Friday night I put Victoria back together, so she's complete as far as being able to drive goes anyway. I still need to replace her exhaust manifold and do some work in the drivetrain, but she's okay. It feels really good to have her back - need to clean her more too.
My fairings kept getting delayed as far as when they'd be done. It was kind of frustrating, but working in a shop, I understand how things can get pushed back like that by other projects and there's nothing you can do about it. So I was patient with him and he really appreciated it, I think. It worked out better too, because after sleeping on it I didn't like what I had worked out all that much, and decided I wanted something different. I went by Friday night and the red was done and the parts looked great - we decided I'd bring him a design Saturday morning. I was up until 2 am reading fonts, lol, looking for ideas. I ended up combining a few and adding a few of my own touches, and I am happy with how it came out.
I got the parts back Saturday afternoon but didn't have it all put back together until Sunday morning because Saturday night I went to dinner with Emily's parents so I could meet her father. I liked him, and her mom is cool as heck too, but I already knew that. We went to the Drafting Room, it's near the Exton Diner on 100, I've driven past it umpteen times but never been there... excellent food. :)
When I got my bike together Sunday I took it over to the Burke's so I could take after pictures with Mr Burke's digital camera (well he took them) and I think he did a good job. Monkey and I were about to leave to go bicycling and Ian called me - he's working at TH now. He said there was a big pack of sportbikes there and I should come check em out. I said heck, I want people to see my new paint, and headed over there. I arrived as they were ready to pull out - an R6, R1, 1 Kat, and 4 or 5 CBRs of varying years. I asked if they minded my tagging along and they said no problem, so I went to the back of the line. 3 or 4 were in Tshirts and shorts, and the last person, whom I was behind, kept going into the other lane, even when oncoming traffic was awfully close. We were going pretty fast, it was fun. We did about 30 miles and then the group got split up, so the lead half stopped. I pulled into the church with the trailing group and after a minute or two everyone started taking off their helmets. A couple of the riders were women, but it was more surprising when they turned their backs to me.... and I saw that they were wearing coverings!~!! As more helmets were removed, it came to my attention they were all mennonites, lol. It was realllly weird. I was unfortunately super low on gas, I had to switch to reserve midway through a corner, haha - so glad I had practiced switching that while riding. I went back to the Burke's and Monkey and I took two bikes to the closed section of route 82. We played in train cars, figured out how their brakes worked and such, found two snakes (both a little too close, lol), rock climbed, climbed trees across the creek, played in the water and found baby aliens, avoided bullies trying to take our lunch money (seriously wtf would any white kid in birdsboro be wearing a doo rag? Under a farmer style cap to boot, lol).... it was a lot of fun. We totally crashed at the Burke's then, wherein I lost sense of time, and got a message from Aaron that his mom had made 3 lbs of hamburgers for the 4 people in his family, and I should come eat some... *zoom*. They were excellent, and I always love kicking it with his family. I came home before dark so that if Binns still hadn't touched his bike, I could beat him onto it, but he was gone. Apparently he did ride though - hoorah, it's about time :P Hehe. I went back out and rode for another 30 minutes or so, then Emily came over and we rode for a while, which was fun. Only one deer! lol.. but I saw it well ahead of time. I had opted to go west so I didn't have to worry about deer as much, it being fields and such. The moon was amazing, and the air smelled so great... it was an excellent night to be outside, motorcycle or not.
Welp, I barely managed to squeeze that summary in before work, but there it is, maybe I'll get the rest later. We'll see :P
~red~

june 11tiest humid
Kitty woke me up at 6 today like she always does. Instead of having her wake me up constantly until I get up anyway and feed her, I decided to just get up and feed her and get my hour of sleep, since the concepts of patience and learning are completely lost on her. Well, it worked. Unfortunately, my alarm clock didn't, so Kookatsu wakes me up again from a decent dream, at 9. Hour after I usually go into work. Blar. So I eat and go down at 9:30, meanin I am going to end up at work late. So far work has totally sucked today - really crappy jobs, random stupid things going wrong, and it's just kinda arrrrrgh. Plus knowing I'll be there until 5:30 instead of 4:30 isn't helping. After work I stop by the shop where my bike parts are being painted to work out with him what I want to have painted on my fairings - but I haven't though of anything yet. So I guess I'll just have him clear coat it and then do vinyl stickers later. I guess that's better because I can change it later... :\ . I'll do that or I'll have him paint CANON ala Kaneda's bike in AKIRA, and another logo on the other side. We'll see how much that'd cost though. Oh well, I've only had two days to think about it, but I still hoped I'd get some moment of genius and think of a badass design for it. Oh well.
Last night Emily and I went over to my mother's for dinner, which was as stressful as it ever is because being around my mother is... hard. Then we went to the Burke's and hung out with Wang, Lauren Hix, Rob, Monkey and Schmud for awhile, watched the rest of Kung Pow, and then I wanted to head home so I wasn't tired. Had to brake hard for deer 4 times just between there and my house - craziness! And no, I don't fly around at night, it's too dangerous. It was gorgeous last night though, I'll give it that. The last two days were great weather, apparently now we're headed into another 10 days of crap conditions. A news report was saying we had the worst 40 consecutive days ever on record - ever. 28 of them rained, and of course the other 12 were likely drizzly fog. Apparently since the start of the calender year (6 months), we've had 5 dry weekends. Oi.
Well, back to work.
~red~

june ninfe lay low
Yeeha I love motorcycles. I was at the Burke's and saw 11:30 roll in, and had decided earlier I'd make sure I was home by 12 so as not to be riding too tired. Emily and I suited up and left, I dropped her off at home (that's near mom's ice cream), and came back here. Took off me gear, looked at the clock - midnight. That's sweet, because in a car it woulda been 12:15 or 12:20, depending on who was driving. And it wasn't crazy fast either. The idea of how fast motorcycles can go is so amazing. Today I went to check on my motorcycle parts after work, but he hasn't even had a chance to start on em yet - too busy with a job customizing this guy's entire Harley. After we left Emily asked why people are always putting flaming skulls everywhere - that's a damn good question, especially on a motorcycle. My skull flying along on fire is entirely too possible on a motorcycle for me to be compelled to paint it on it. Actually it'd be cooler if it had a likeness to the owner's face, but nonetheless, I think the flaming skull thing is a little old. Emily had to go to karate, so I took her on the bike and then went over to the mall and hung out with Dave for a little bit. Picked up Emily and we rode back here and laid on the porch for a bit, looking at the moon - nice to finally see it. I clicked a link on the Katana Planet boards when we were inside that took me to a little java game where you try to eat a pie in 15 bites. Your cursor is a big circle which represents a bite. I got it in 17 my first try, then decided I wanted real pie, so we called the Burke's to see if the crew wanted to go get some pie and food. Monkey got really confused because he thought I wanted him to come get high with me and then get food ... (silly monkey)... but when he realised what I meant he offered ice cream cake and brownies made earlier, so we went to get em. They were delicious, as was the chicken (lightly breaded) I found in the refrigerator. Wang and Lauren Hix were there, and Jacob came just as we were leaving. We watched Kung Pow - you probably remember it as the movie where the guy fights a cow. Well holy friggin crap, it's hilarious. I had heard it was a total flop, but I'm sure Siskel would say that. What noone tells you is how they made the movie - they took an old kung-fu flick, put an actor's face on one of the characters, and dubbed it with ridiculous voices. It rocks. I wanna see the rest, but I didn't wanna die on the way home. I'm getting up early tomorrow to ride with Dave before work too. I want to have my sister watch the movie, I think she'd practically burst from laughing - goodness knows I was, although Monkey's laugh is infectious as hell.
I'd really best be off to bed now though - I'll leave you with one of my favorite lines from the movie tonight [probably a bit muddled]... 'You must let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata.'
~red~

june 6thiester lay low
Well b-don is always bitching and h8ing on me about updating my website, but he does that when it's been a couple days. Or maybe it's that every time he tells me, I think it's been a couple days... either way I figured it was a couple days and it's been a week. I was sitting here with the m to the izzo n-key and figured I'd look at my site - and - oops. Heh, oh well. I was really sick this past week..."how sick were you"... (that was monkey.. beats me - oh I'm supposed to make a joke) I was sick as the illest motha fucka alllliiiive! ... you know you laughed. Anyway, it was a whole lot of my mouth gr33fing me, gums, tongue, teef, and strep or something on top, that you probably don't feel like reading the details of. I worked anyway though, only because Dave is the man. If I were working anywhere else it woulda been fuuuuuuck that, if you 'kna.i'm.sayin' Anyway, it was bit a living hell, although sleeping was usually a bit of a relief if I could do it without it hurting too much. And Emily was over a fair amount, so the whole week wasn't that bad. In fact, sickness aside it was good. Except for the weather. hmm. Whatevaaaz. Anyway.
I have my license now!!! That's right, I just rode around with a monkey on the back of my motorcycle! O_O Gasp face. It was just Monkey Burke, not an ape, you silly ape... believer... *cough*. Emily was my first passenger ever, we went about 50 miles this morning, it was great. Except for that really steep road (uphill) that spontaneously turned into a gravel on dirt wildlife refuge, wherein no vehicles were allowed. And I do mean suddenly... wtf?! Some Harley guy came cruising down from the top too like laaa de da, and asked if I was okay. I'm like wth I'm on a friggin dirt road... but yeah. I got some chinese from Zou's Garden (*note: I didn't say zoo) and it was damn yummy, I was eatins it here and Monkey brought over this game which I'll call ... 'awesome burnination of exlpodidity boom zone!' I think it's name is 'Silent Bomber' but sheeit, if you can be silent playing this game you're a friggin mute. IT RULES. You like, do these sweet ass jumps that have a wicked sound effect, and then blow up shit. Like .. .jump, ZOOM, plant bomb, jump ZOOM BLOW UP BOMBITYS jump ZOOM over and over omg and you can't blink and there's booms and it's sweeeeeet. Totally old school gaming goodness. I mean crikes it's made by Bandai - you can't go wrong. Then I took him on his ride... and this platypus driving a couch tried to cut us off, but monkey threw a cushion at him and he stopped to pick it up.
...
Okay so that last part may be a little fib.
Anyway I get my parts for my motorcycle back on Monday - right now the fairings, windscreen, and front fender are all missing, which actually looks really cool. The mirrors and signals are there, so it looks like a jackrabbit!! And I got a new nameplate for my exhaust, so it's sweet to the max too! I really want a digital camera, I think I'll be able to afford one in July, hooooray :)
So what else... I got this kickin piano.. pizzano? pizza ro? It's this round chair that has an italian name I didn't care to learn. I took it from Emily's cat - her mom said I should take it cause it had been sitting in the basement relatively unused for 3 years or so, but I think I upset the cat. There's this little potted mini tree, and it knocked it over and stared at us. She's a nice cat though, Her name is Princess and she looks like one. I've wanted a chair like that since I was a little lad, my aunt had one. But my cousin was always in it. But now... it's all mine! Absolutely ideal for sitting cross legged in.
Woops, Val and Austin came over to show me Austin's new bow and arrow - I'ma go chill with them.
~red~

june 2ndest warming up
I'm eating potato chips with a fork, because it's all the crumbies and such. I like applesauce with my lunches, and it's working well as a paste for chip chips. Do you read Aaron's site? I think his post from Saturday night (oh fine here's a link you lazy bastitches) was one of the best things I've read on a personal website in a while. I like the beginning, but I always want specifics when people talk like that - then wham, he uses names, I was pleased. Agreed with what he said which helped too, I suppose. I'm so seesaw about work lately, I'll feel crappy about going in, then it'll suck, then it's kinda fun, then it's just going quickly, then blah blah blah... think I like it though, in the end. I'd really love to be able to play some of my own music down there, some hard and fast stuff would be so sweet. Oh well, you can't have everything. I want my machines back together! When my machines are good, I feel good. Clean and running well and such. My motorcycle is stripped way down right now getting painted and purtied, <3 should be a couple of days and I'll get the plastic back, having detailed the whole thing, and she'll be sooooo pretty, I love my motorcycle. I was looking for paint on Sunday and had a runin with a real prodigy working at Sears:
Me: That cheap? You don't have automotive paint do you.
Prodigy: No, just house paint.
Me: Okay then, thanks for your time, I'll try somewhere else.
Prodigy: You know what does work, sometimes, is nail polish.
(now I've told her like 3 times I'm doing the fairing on a motorcycle, but hey.. some people are stupid)
Me: No, you don't understand, this is for the side of a motorcycle *spreads arms*
Prodigy: Yeah *nods, double chin moving along with the other*, I mean it would be a lot of nail polish, but it would work.
Me: *stares blankly* Like, the whole *spreads arms wide again* side *motions* of the motorcycle... *blinks* nail polish?
Prodigy: Well yeah-
Me: mmm kthxbye

I managed to not really burst out laughing till we were outside... seriously.. wtf, nail polish?
~red~

june 1st skidd danged creek bottom banjos
Yeeeehar, I'm listening to some dig dang blue grass over here dang now I reckon. I love this ridiculous stuff. I remember watching that 70's show with matt, and Red was asking that neighbor dad figure what he should give Kitty to cheer her up. The guy was like 'A banjo.'
'A banjo Bob?'
'Yeah, a banjo. You can't hold a banjo without smiling.'
It's so damn true. If I could play banjo I'd take it with me everywhere so I could randomly start playing to make people laugh, haha. You know you'd all dig it. Especially when I made that little end song after every sentence X person said. Hmm, where to acquire a banjo.
'This strange plan is random at best... ' I love Built To Spill, of all the people I've told to check them out, I don't think any have, but that's okay because I still enjoy em. I've had an eventful week. Poison ivy showed up on me for god knows what reason and in seemingly random places (my arm, then ribcage, chest, little on my neck?) but I think it's regressing - I was really worried it would spread across my whole body like it used to when I was yonger. I <3's my Emily, she's here now, as she has been pretty often. The one night she wasn't here I was cookin some steaks and I did ... wait no, pork chops. Anyways I did done burninated my bad self, but that's healing too. I started my MSF (Motorycle Safety Foundation) courses on Thurs, that was a classroom, then yesterday I had the first one on the bikes. It was wet, very very wet. I rode there and back too, sooooo soaked lol. But it was okay. As for whether it was worth being wet and all, as I told Larry seeing first a 400 lb man fall on his butt trying to stop quickly, and then watching a fulltimecollegestudent-bartender-blonde-ditz type fly like 10 feet in the air after getting a fist full of throttle and letting go when the bike was sideways spinning the rear... that'll make anything worthwhile, just about.
Not getting prison raped. I don't think prison rape should exist. Rapists should be castrated, not raped in return. Hmm okay maybe a little bit, rape is fucked up.. but shouldn't guards be there to taser the big mean horny men when they try to rape the guys with beautiful girl hair? :_( If I go to prison, I want Bo to come protect me with his stun stick thing. Yes, that will work.
My motorcycle gets all fiximicated tomorrow! .... FUCK I didn't get the paint for him... fuckfuckfuck I can't believe I haven't done that yet... hmm there's something to desperately try and get done today. Oh well anyway, Victoria is coming along well too, I just need... "just"... to replace the exhaust manifold and put her front end back together. I <3 my baby :) Well I'd best be off.. I want a donut!
Oh Yoshimi, they don't believe me, but you won't let those robots eat me.
Good old Yoshimi.
~red~

27m cranberries
It's amazing how a change in perspective makes a change in meaning, in what matters. i think a lot of people could use a good dose of some kind of sedative, so they can let things go a little bit. I guess that's why I like pot smokers sometimes, atleast (some) aren't uptight all of the time about ridiculous shit. I see a couple of things now as being such desperate measures for attention, and I'm happy that I no longer feel the need to give attention to them at all. Enough of the right attention and they'll probably forget about what they were doing to get it, but then again they may snap suddenly and go right back to it, denying everything good that happened as having been a farce. Well fuck that.
I downloaded a bunch of cranberries the other night, as the title may have told you... I like their music, they are yet another band I just kinda forgot to download when I started building my music empire. Yes, empire. *strokes white cat* Mwahahaha. o_O
I walked like 3 or 4 miles in the rain with Aaron the other dead of the night, it was a lot more fun than it sounds. Speaking of Aaron, his party went well, I think. It was raining off and on/drizzling, but we just put the grill inside a bay and went ahead with things. I'd say there were about 20 people here or more, and the best part was we both spent less money on food than we had planned, and didn't misjudge how much we'd need. Val (Dave's middle child) came down for awhile and played, it was fun: apparently when Terri got home that night and asked him what he did, he said 'I had some good punch' (I gave him some fruit juice, hah). Haha, their kids are priceless. I saw Dave up in his yard last night, so he's back safe - I'm excited to hear how things went down there and everything, and it'll be nice to work with him again. Can't wait to have that retarted Explorer out of the shop too, hope those brakes will ever bleed out for me.
I thought about just saying something like 'If you want to know who my girlfriend that isn't manufactured by Suzuki is, you can meet her' because I think it'd be kinda fun to surprise people, but I don't want to sound like someone, 'my girlfriend,' 'my girlfirend.' Her name is Emily (see, she has a name) and... well I'll leave it at that for now, you likely don't care much. But I'm happy, happy.
I did a couple things with my room I've been meaning to for forever, finally hung up a divider. Not across the doorway corner like I planned, instead cutting off part of the room that has my bed and closet, leaving my computer and desk in the open. Nice to be able to change and sleep without thinking of people coming in and out. I used hooks and ran clothesline wire through the top of two black king size sheets, it worked very well. I also hung up the fairing that got thrashed when I hit the deer, I think it's cool. can't wait to have my bike pretty, that's this Monday. It was awesome to have yesterday off, I can't remember the last time I had a day off, haha.
But today I don't have off, so I'll go kick it with the cars.
Love and peace, kids.
~red~

m23y staying awake
Most mistakes I deal with in the same way. Do what I can to correct what harm it's caused, and learn from it as much as possible. But a few, in a select category, haunt me, and I've had trouble getting past them. Maybe because I can't do anything about the harm they've caused, or they didn't really cause any, but.. it's a bugger. I think this time I will do what I think I should though, and just say 'Damn, that was a mistake', not make it again, and move on, learn from it. But not dwell on it, and try to fix it. Fixing it makes it drag out longer, and it's bad, I think. Hopefully it won't get drug out either by the person involved or other fuckers whose noses often wander near, but... well that's a pointless hope.
I was up all night before coming into work at 8 this morning, but it ended up working out well. It was the best Wednesday night in my memory, and it would've been worth it even if I was pllllbbt at work, but I ended up not feeling very tired (for the most part) and getting a lot done in what felt like a short amount of time. Starting at 8 is actually pretty cool, I may stick with it. Probably 8:30-4:30, but who knows. We'll see how early I get mah be-hind out of bed :) That's the one thing that seems nice about my friend's jobs - they can sleep in. But I think my perks outweigh just about everyone else's (aaron's are close competition for now, until I get to drive the twin turbo 911.. and I mean drive)

Last two nights have been nice though, I think... I think... yeah I do, but you don't need to read about it, now. I need to get some more sleep. ~red~

m21y waking up
"Oh, Bury me beneath the willow, under the weeping willow tree. So she will know where I am sleeping, and perhaps she'll weep for me."
I brought over my clown bank from my mom's house. It's a super old antique, made out of... I think cast iron. A clown's bust holds his arm in front of him at a 90 degree angle, and you place coins in his hand. Pull a lever in his shoulder and his moves back as arm rises, and he swallows the change. I had to hide it for awhile because it scared me to death (clowns are evil), but it's kinda cool. I think it doesn't help that instead of painting eyes, they left two black holes. Brings out the soullessness of clowns. Wang has been over almost every night lately, and it's great. I like him coming/being around, others as well. Bo's been a frequent flyer since I'm on the way to and from the Burke's, and his moped rules, hahaha. The exhaust on my bike is great too. I expected nothing but a sound difference, but ended up getting huge performance gains. And the sound is perfect, too. :) Problem is it makes me wanna go WOT all the time, hehe. Makes me think about how stupid it is to give new riders (specially kids) these supersports like GSXRs, new Ninjas and such. It sounds like it wants to go 150 mph, it feels like it... well because it does. They can't learn responsible riding like that. If I ever have kids, they're A) starting on dirtbikes at a young age, but B) getting standards as their first bikes, or maybe someting like a Katana. Who knows. And hey, maybe they won't want to. Some people are scared of bikes.
Kookatsu showed up again, having hid out for a couple of days. I didn't see her for two days straight, it was worrying me, then she showed up in the middle of the night once, no-show for a day, and now she's back out. I think it was just all the people - can't blame her for that.
Yesterday I had to go get Noah immediately after work, then drive him home, stop at the rot on the way home.. by the time we got back I had about 1 minute to ride. Driving me crazy because my bike is so sweet, haha, but oh well. I went on the halfpipe for a while then, I'm getting a lot better - I think getting better for me is mostly confidence in this case. I used the straightaway by the church then to practice wheelies and endos on my bicycle for a long while. Got some decent endos in, and okay wheelies, but I need a lot of work balancing. I'm scared to try wheelies on my bike now that it has more low end - looping it would suck so royally. I need to find my red shoe polish too, my boots are really bad.
Work is getting kind of old, I could use a little break but I try and find them other places.
I think I'm really uptight lately. Usually when I get depressed, I can't do anything and I let things slip, don't get things done, become a lot more apathetic, etcetera. Lately I've just been kicking myself into doing whatever needs to get done, so about 2/3rds of the things I want to do are done, and the slip isn't very noticeable. Especially at work, I'm just working even more, and asking for more work instead of taking a couple minutes to relax and catch my breath in between jobs. It kind of worries me, because people end up doing this their entire lives. I think it would help a lot to just take off to trees for awhile and go get barefoot and lost, but I've been thinking about that for quite some time and still have yet to be able to. Being busy definitely has it's ups and it's downs.
I know I'm not the workaholic, get all your bad feelings out through labor type. I can kind of feel why other people are, when I'm doing it, but I know it isn't me. I don't want to work all the time, and I think by the end of the summer I'll be tired enough of doing mechanics, atleast 9-5, 5 days a week. Who knows wtf I'll do this fall... the biggest thing I want to learn right now is german. Other than that I'd like to learn someone. If you can understand that.
When I came back from bicycling last night, I went up and sat on the roof with Emily. Carrie came and went once, but other than that we just talked up there for 2 hours about whatever. It was casual and all, but it was great. It rained, once, stopped, then for awhile.
I should go down to work now.
~red~

18m blue
I was going over to my mom's to steak some things today, and I saw a sweet motorcycle go by. Then another..and another.. then a ricer.. then like 10 more awesome bikes. So I followed em up to the Maple Grove area, where I saw like 40 more. I asked one of them what was going on, and they said there was a stunt show. I checked it out on the site when I got back and it looks like it would be hella sweet, sportbike swap meet, bikini contest, wheelie contest, stunt show, and the lineup of stunt teams coming is awesome. But it's raining... and the $20 admission means that the price savings on parts isn't worth it, so I'm not going to go, even though it would have been cool.
I didn't really want to stop driving today, I wanted to go forever. My feelings are matching the weather today, I feel melancholy and maybe depressed. I started rearranging my room last night and we (people over) got distracted midway so I left it in a mess, I don't think that helped. Whatever though, it's getting better. I wanted to bringe my blue rug over that is in my sister's room now, but I didn't think it would fit. I'm looking again and have no idea, really.. need to measure it. But my sister's room looks good with it, so maybe I won't take it. I've got 30 minutes left until I can drive, but I don't know if I will anyway. I like this ne wlayout in my room, I can see right out the window from my computer, and at night the moon is right there. I could use some pyrokinesis though, to light the candles on the windowsill from here... haha. Brought the bed over from my mom's house, and I'm glad I did. Had a bit of an epiphany with it as well, there are boards pointing in, intended to hold up the under mattress board thing, but since I dropped it, they just kinda stuck in. When I was putting it together I realised I could just point em out. duh!
I read Scott Kurtz's rant about Reloaded and I think he makes some good points. You can read it here. For those who don't know, Scott Kurtz is the creator of a hilarious webcomic called PvPOnline. Reading it from the beginning is worth it. My opinion on the Matrix's sequel? Like any sequel, it doesn't touch the original. I think it's a great movie by today's standards, but it doesn't touch the Matrix's. I don't think the movie did much, break any ground, compared to the original. Scott talks about how Neo lost so much ground - at the end of the Matrix, he was totally uber, and in this movie it was like he got nerfed. He lacks confidence (even saying he wish he knew what he was supposed to do), and flight is just a cool way to move. At the end of the first movie they were implying that he was a god within the matrix, and had managed to get his mind past all the limitations. Hmph. I think I'd rather see the first movie in the theaters again than the second, although I'll probably go atleast one more time. It was pretty sweet.
Well, I'm out. ~red~

15m picking
I've been listening to this Deb Talan CD I burned off of Jess's, I like it a lot. I was going to go to her concert last night, but things changed and work interfered, oh well. I've really been enjoying my guitar, and my free car. Spent a while in it last night with Bo, Wang, and Ang. It was nice to be driving at night again, with the same techno and a Jetta. yep...
Binns IMed me at some point last night and told me 'AZ is pretty sweet. but hot.' Haha, yep. Man I miss the west... :\ I want to buy a little trailer, and take my bike and I out to wherever. That would be nice. I'm starting to save up now, done spending money for now. I want to have the money to go somewhere, and I'm just sick of spending. I suppose I'll need to spend a bit to get Victoria working, but, that's a necessity-ish. Looking forward to selling a couple things and making the money. I met a couple of riders from the area. One's name is Seth, he's friends with the Eric from Turkey Hill that isn't Dub. Seth has a Katana too, it's pretty nice. I saw Garth Boyer on a little 250 Ninja that belonged to Darren Wingard too. I wish it was Darren Brozene though, because he'd look funny on a crotchrocket, I think. Enough of the boring update.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about where I want to go, and where I want to be.. and I spent time talking about that kind of thing too, including where I am. Sometimes I feel like I'm really nowhere, because I'm just living in a material fantasy land that won't get me anywhere, that I'm all stuff. I think I'm overreacting, and it's not as bad as that... but I really long for the days of barefoot broke and no responsibility... that's why I envy Susan's trip so. You can't maintain a car and a motorcycle while you're rocking it hippie style, and I don't want to let them go. Maybe the car. But I <3 my Victoria so... I wonder how cheap insurance on the red Jetta will be. Ideal says rolling out west and finding some little spot to pull the bike off the trailer and get by. I think reality says I'd be lonely there, etcetera. However... maybe lonely would be healthy, in developing myself. I have made a firm decision to think about who I am on a regular basis, and sort of double check it. I'm not changing for other people, but I don't feel completely natural sometimes.
well I've got other things to do and I'd like to play more before work.
~red~
P.s. - if you want to give feedback or thoughts, they are always welcome. new link at the bottom to my email.

14m ^_^
Little break from work. I just got my car back! YAYAYAYAY!! She looks so sexy... rrrrowr. I can't wait to get my Victoria running again, <3 <3 <3. Need to find a wheel though... I'll do that tonight.
What have I been up to? Hanging out with a lot of people home from school, staying up a little later than I like to but it's been a blast, worth it. Binns is in AZ for a week... it's actually not that bad at all. I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do next school year. I'd like to be learning, but if it's like HS I don't want to do it. I'll make it different, and if it isn't... there's good in everything. I'm actually really looking forward to it. Need to apply though. I was mostly done filling things out at collegeboard.com last night, before Jess came over, so atleast I'm making progress. She was helping me get started with guitar (again), I'm really excited. It's easier this time around. Like when I couldn't ride my cycle for a week, not doing it actually taught me too. Beth came then, and eventually Wang. We were painting, I hadn't really done it before, but I enjoyed it. Acrylics with my fingers. I ended up falling asleep on the floor next to Jess painting, and it was nice, they left around 1:30 and Josh and I crashed. Beth was downloading and playing songs the whole time, so I've got some cool new music. I'm going to a reading on Thursday, looking forward to that and hoping I won't end up the only one reading/doing anything. (apparently everyone is nervous about it). I can't wait to work on my car... I've been working on the beater and fixing a lot of the major things which makes me feel great about it (as does it being free, now that I sold the wheels for $300.) I have no money though, until a bunch of people pay me back, so we'll see how soon she's back. I don't have time to post about what I'd like to, so I'm heading back to work.
~red~

11m *_*
Those are my eyes cause I'm a star.
... hehe. It's been okay lately. Work is up and down, but the ups are sweet - making cracks with Dave and Terri, it's usually damn funny. And the kids are always hilarious :P My car is going to be done in a few days!!!!! .... !!!!! With the bodywork anyway, I gots to do the insides mah self, but I've got a beater so it's okay if mine isn't running for a bit. It's amazing, the beater - it's sooo thrashed in many ways but it still has a distinctive solid feel of being a VW, and it's great to drive. I <3 vee dubs.
I was reminded halfway through the day of that the prom was last night - hah! Ahh well, it worked out. I swapped out that power steering pump like a pro, and got all cleaned up and suchnot in time. Prom was kinda crazy. I had a lot of fun at the end, and here and there in between. I got to hang out with my girl from honeybrook for awhile - I don't think I know her name, I just know she's a ghetto chick (I presume she's from the brook :P) and she's awesome... we've always been like this *crosses fingers*. I sat next to Caitlan (sp) Smoker at dinner, she seemed smart... not sure why that stood out. Jeff-dog was there, and I was excited as always to see Aud and such. Casciano (sp again) cracked me up too. -
waitress: And if you didn't know, there are two dessert tables in the corners.
Cas: Are you serious?
There was a hell of a lot of funny, I decided quickly it was too much to remember. I got a bunch of LTJ the other night because other people have been talking about listening to it, and it was a damn good idea.
Prom was weird too because Liz was there, I think, though I still haven't figured out how. I was a pretty lame date for Lauren though, I danced once, the last dance... oh well, I guess. Can't get everything right.
I picked up Noah's motorcycle for him this morning, Mike (spirito) drove me down, we ended up meeting the guy north of New Castle (a bit N of Harrisonburg). I rode it back and it rained for the first 2 hours or so, mebbe longer.. until PA. I was so excited when it was finally dry, what a difference. Being on the highway on a silver bike in the rain is pretty damn scary, I must have been completely invisible. And I couldn't see crap. I wore two Tshirts and Noah's Dashboard sweatshirt (meh) under my riding jacket and they alll soaked through, haha... but I'm more of a man for it! Or something like that anyway. It was all good fun though, and the bike is GORGEOUS. Loud as fucking hell too - full race only exhaust will do that. I came home to the halfpipe! Austin asked me like once a minute if I wanted to ride on it, lol, so I took off the soaking clothes, and went back out to get with the hurting myself, lol. I tried to drop in on my skateboard and it didn't work so well, and I couldn't even use my skills from 'How to Skateboard' (KNEESLIDES!!) cause I didn't have pads. ;) I went out on my bike though, and it's challenging as all getout because the ramp is so thin. But I'm getting it, just tiring, that's all. I'm gonna go out on my bike now, because I <3 it. ;) PEACE
~red~

5m o_O?
Does anyone else think it's kind of ridiculous that Aaron of all people criticized me for having a quote from a pop punk song as my away message?

Delirium - Innocente (DJ Tiesto remix).
My kitty's being good tonight, she's actually holding still for once. Relatively speaking. She's laying on my lap now (I think she may be purring even.. whoa..) but she sat up now and then so I could pet her as if I were an evil superpower. Admittedly when she's being an annoying fuck at night I can think of some pretty mean things I'd look to do to her, but all in all I'm glad she's around and I <3 her.
If I met the right person, I'd put them on the back of my motorcycle, go get fucking lost, and live there.
Some people are really fucking grinding on me. And I am always tired while I'm at work. I really want my car back and my bike looking good, damnit. I remember Susan talking about how so much in her life seemed like it was going in cycles, and she couldn't stand it. I see cycles, a lot in people I know, and I am beginning to understand what Susan was saying.
Fucking a man. Fuckin a.
~red~

4m day = :]
Heh, heh... yeah I bought a second bike. Lol but I'm not as insane as posting probably makes me sound. It's a 1981 Honda Twinstar CM200T, with 1001 miles on it (942 earlier today :P oops), and it's absolutely mint. The original owner let it sit in his garage for years, and then someone saw it sitting and bought it from him - he had a Harley but hadn't ridden in awhile so he wanted to practice first on something less expensive. He restored the thing, beautifully, and then... died. So now a year later or so I'm guessing, his wife had it at a yard sale - whammo, I get it for $750. I could easily sell it for 12-15 hundred, but I'm going to hang onto it until Susan is home. This is the kind of bike she wanted to a T, so hopefully I can help her out because the bike is absolutely awesome. So fun to ride :)
Today was just really fun. I woke up at 9 and went over to put down half the money on that car until his daughter brings the title over from her apt on Tuesday, but I was so tired I just got gas and came back home, where I returned to bed. I got up at about 11:30 and woke up Noah, so we could get some food. We saw garage sales though, and got distracted - went to the Elverson one by the old Graco building but the hosers were all packing up an hour early, o_O. We decided to check out one I had seen earlier, at that barn on the left in the big valley E on 23, before Dambrosio. That's where I saw the bike, and you know that story... bought a sweet Mercedes travel mug and some steak knives too. Binns had to go to work after taking me back to the bike with my gear and checkbook, so I got my backpack and headed up to Morgantown. I stopped at my mom's to show it to her because she and my father used to ride in college, but she was gone and didn't answer her cell :(. I bought as much stuff as I could fit into my backpack and down my jacket, then called my mom as I left - she was like a 1/4 mile away. I went over and showed her the bike, it brought back memories like I thought it would. She said 'See this is why I can't yell at you for having a motorcycle... I love them too!' I ended up standing there talking to her for like an hour, then Shaina Columbia walked by and I talked to her for a bit before she had to go. Mom and I decided to check out the little ghetto yard sale that is always at the corner of S 10 and 23 then, and after walking around that we parted ways. I headed home and when I got here I saw that April was having a game up at the HS, so I went there. It was pretty cool! I get there in the 7th inning, TV down by one, then they tied it, although they ended up losing in the bottom of the 8th. I thought they looked like a better team though... the Wilson players field skills were kinda pathetic, i.e. the catcher couldn't even throw to second, lol. TV had more trouble at the plate though, and I guess that's usually what matters in the end :� . I decided to see if Audrey was at home to show her the Twinstar on my way home. She wasn't.... but her parents were! :D Lol I love going over there. I was chatting with her mom for a bit then her dad came out. When I told him the mileage/price etcet he kept saying "Get the fuck out!", lol. Ahh. They said she was at jen's/work so I went over there and Aud and Jen were out on the porch reading comics, with some french fries and chicken fingers. Which! - they weren't going to finish. Mmm, yummy free food. They had to go to work then, so I came back and washed the Kat and tried to fix up the front end. What I thought would work as a relatively quick fix unfortunately didn't, so I'm going to have to ask around katana planet for some other ideas, but it's still rideable of course. I can't wait until it's pretty again! I went riding on the Kat for an hour or so, then came back and took out the Twinstar because it was getting chilly and the Honda is a lot slower, lol... plus I just like it :] . I stopped by the Burke's but they weren't there, so I came back home and messed around for a bit, then called Jared's cell. He and Bo were just leaving Exton so I told em to pick up Chinese and come over. Justo came too, and we watched Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, which is funny as hell, lol. Reaaalllly bad audio, but if you pretend it was made in German and dubbed it just makes it cooler :�. I don't really remember falling asleep...
But I woke up in my regular clothes. An hour late. Dagnabit! I set two alarms and still overslept, so I didn't get to ride out to Ephrata with Dave :( Oh well. I got there at about 9:30 and I found him after a bit. Hollllllllllly shit, there were atleast 1000 bikes there, no exaggeration. Probably more, it was so awesome. Sooooo many sweet sweet.. *degenerates into drooling* *shakes head* It's so awesome. I said that, but.. damn. My cheeks hurt from spending the last two days grinning my head off. I had to put effort into not bursting out laughing this morning looking at some of the bikes, because they were so nice it made me want to laugh. I had a great ride home too, I took corners in the powerband for the first time, and did a lot of riding keeping it in it... big difference and really... O_O really.. fast! I love the guys who say that in like a month and 1500 miles they've mastered their kats and are ready for a GSX-R... they have no idea what a Kat can do. Haha. Katmandu, get it?
Anyway, I think Rob and I are going to go riding this afternoon, a 200cc bike from '81 is no replacement for a Kat, but it's something, and it's fun, so I hope he enjoys riding it :). I really hope Susan likes it too, I think it's ideal for her. Well I started writing this yesterday, so I'm going to cut with the lollygagging and get it uploaded - made another archive file too because the grapes was up to a quarter meg, so I cut it down a bit, for all you dial-up chillins ;).
LOve and-A PEACE!
~red~

may2 new car
Well, I bought a car. It's a red Jetta, 1990, with 158,000 miles. The alignment pulls left, the engine has a knocking noise from the bottom, and the bumper is droopy, the front emblem is missing and someone put a 'VR6 edition' badge in the grill even though it's the 8v four cylinder. It's even a stupid automatic. But I can't wait! Because it's $300, lol. Even if it blows up on the way home, it's still worth the money, it has a set of nice 15 inch custom wheels on it, that are worth that much - and my car needs wheels, lol. It's also got an AIWA CD player, and I can have a field day stripping it's parts for my car where applicable. Wooo! The previous owner (some chick, mid 20's, bought a cavalier, just drove it to work and back mostly) left the title in Philly because she got a flat tire and forgot it, so it'll be Wednesday until it's legally mine, but hooo-eee. Won't be grounded anymore :) My car will be back in two weeks, except for the work I have to do on it, and my bike is going to get it's bodywork done around May 23rd, woo hah.
I think someone tried to give me a guilt trip about saying the kid who wrecked doing a wheelie at the HS was a jackass. They told me not to make fun of him for wrecking. I wouldn't make fun of someone for wrecking for any circumstance, except for their being a total squid. A separate example - the jackass who was driving without a license and decided to run from the cops. I feel sorry for his family and friends, but for him... sorry but my sympathy tank is around E. Pity someone for trying to wheelie and crashing into a guardrail, while still new to riding and their motorcycle... right.
... lol.
Anyway, I'm off to Matt's, and later tonight X-Men 2, I suppose. peace.
~red~

may2 pan-da
I decided to just look at my site to see when I had updated last and 'oh'.
WOOT! My plan worked! I put my totally sweet GSXR-750 model on the windowsill by my bed so it would fall into something soft if it had to (kickstand is a poor design), and it just went right down, and is okay. Anyway!
I thought I had updated all these times this week, but I had just written updates in my head without making them. Oops, oh well. My teeth are still gr33fin, which I'm pissed about but I never remember/they're never open [calling the dentist]. I decided to go the white route with my car - I don't want to burn 1k even if I've wanted a black car for awhile, black cars are a dime a dozen, and it wouldn't even be aesthetically the best. There is a lot of black plastic on the outside of the car, and it would look a lot more faded with black behind it. I think she looks damn good in white anyway :) So that gets started early next week, and I think within 2 weeks I'll be done my work on it too - but who knows. Been working a lot more this week, actually got some decent hours in. Which is good, since I'm apparently into wrecking things. I can't wait to have my car back together again, and I can't wait to have my bike pretty again. I love that she's red, it's damn exciting to see red everywhere, heh. Wheeee I love riding! I was going to take it down to Nonamakers today, but Dave and I are going to Ephrata on Sunday, so I don't want to not have my bike then. It'll be a lesson in humility going with a mismatched fairing, but it's worth it to see the swwwwweeeeeeeeeet bikes that come. Hayabusa's are still some of the sessiest bikes ever, although yesterday mother and I saw a Ducati 748 in a mall parking lot that was for sale. *dies* Those bikes are like... stupid fast.
Speaking of stupid! No compassion for a fucktard who pulls wheelies in a school parking lot right after school. What a fucking jackass.
Well, as much as I'd love to write something worth reading, I can't do it now - it's time for work. Love and-a PEACE!
~red~

04.29 no fucking way!
Damn I'm excited, Aaron in his apparent abundance of freetime found some sort of perma cache of FGL. While this isn't that great (it was in it's post awesome, but pre mega suck stage), what is sweet is that because it was linked to it, this archive place had a copy of my old rantings - here . Wheee, I was so pissed when I got back from UT and the guys had just cancelled the site without archiving anything or warning (not that I could be reached) so I just lost, everything. Atleast now I have that half a year back, maybe eventually that archive site will get the rest. It's pretty eerie, seeing the last post's date - it's the day before I got ganked off to UT.
well, i'm off on the bikes with binns.
~red~

04.29 wheels
Well my motorcycle isn't pretty again yet, but I put the fairing on anyway so that I can atleast ride. I was pretty dissapointed because Ian and Noah were going out and said it would be no problem to pick up adhesive remover for me and drop it off at my house by 5 or 5:30 so that I could get the glue off, and they ended up not getting it at all, but, whatever ; I can go get it on my own. On top of it being great to be able to ride again, I feel a lot better having my own transportation. Maybe I'm a pathetic little dude who is emasculated by not being able to transport himself (and I doubt this, I think I just like it), but it feels better.
I drove my car over to Gene Phillips' yesterday, and talked to him about the costs to fix it. I'm looking at 1-1.5k to fix the tree damage and the door from last summer, and of course take out the rust on that side etcet and paint it. (New fenders dun have any paint, so it's not an option to not paint). I've wanted to redo the whole cars paint for some time however, because it's crap (original paint from 88 for goodness' sake) and there are rust spots and scratches in it aplenty. So I wanna paint it black, because I think it would set off the fact that it's all debadged, and most of the lights on it are smoked, really well. On one hand everyone has a black car, on the other it's because they're so badass ;) It would compliment the interior very well too.
I know... spend 2500+ on a car 15 years old? That's nuts. Except... it's such a fucking good car. I've proven that by taking it to Seattle and back without problem, and putting 20k on it. In 20k miles I've had to work on tires (wear item), the alternator (inevitable every 80-100k), the starter (inevitable every 100k or so), and.... oh wait, that's all it's needed. I did bushings because I wanted the performance, and it's going to need brakes, which are just another wear item. And one thing most people don't pay attention to is that the engine only has 20,000 miles on it (it was rebuilt just before I got it). So it's like putting it into a new car, which I'd do without as much hesitation. Am I going to find a car I like this much, with this much power (And/or engine work - cams, flywheel) short shift kit, suspension upgrades, that's going to last with little upkeep, for under 3k? Not easily, and the chances are pretty slim. I think I'm going to do it. But, I wavered a -lot- on the RX-7 (which I'm not getting... I want a german car, as badass as Japanese are), so we'll see how this goes. Luckily I have time to decide.
Well I'm going to try and get a ride in before work. Peace out, niggas.
~red~

04.28 argh
Geocities has been whoring it since Saturday night, which is really starting to irk the fuck out of me. It won't let me preview or save when editing although everything else works smoothly. I'm going to try just editing locally to see if it will let me upload, but who knows - basing it on my usual lack these last few weeks, trying to upload should bring about my computer's physical cracking in half. My fixed teeth are giving me absolute hell, a seemingly random times a day they will hurt like never before for a few hours. Last night it started around 9 (it went away around 5:30 having started about 3) and hasn't stopped, it took atleast an hour to fall asleep.
Every time that fucking cat woke me up.
Why did I give her a japanese name? Such a fuckign sped, she thinks she's Mario Andretti, she just friggin SPRINTS (as fast as possible, it's ridiculous) from the attic to the couch, and back... over and over.
So, bad bad night. Now I get to go work with a toothache so bad it brings a migraine with it.
W H E E .
~red~

04.27 triple letters
I got most of the sticker off of the 'new' fairing yesterday, about 15 minutes today and I'll have it the rest of the way off. I may actually be able to ride today. It's been a bad week not being able to ride, heh... I miss it. I did get two sweet motorcycle models from KB Toys though, a GSXR 750 and a CBR600. I thought they were going to be $6, but when I paid it was like 3 total, so I was happy. They are only 1:18 though... not like my 1:12 GSXR 600 model =]
I got new bracelets, a bunch of blue and a bunch of black. I'm pleased with them, and my new plugs, I got the blue kind I had been thinking of originally, and went up to an 8 gauge. I think I'll go to a 6 when I can, and then stop. I had Bo put them in for me, it actually hurt more than the original piercing did, but it was welcome - I waited until one stopped hurting to do the other one so that it hurt more, because when my ears hurt I forgot about my teefache for a bit. They were pretty bad last night, and I'm not sure why, although they got better as the night went on. Mitch's was... eh. There were a bunch of fuckface guys (My favorite being the one who spent all night bragging about how he was kicked out of school and obliged to go to therapy because he (well first it was told them their telling him about suicide helplines was stupid) and then it was throwing a desk and walking out saying 'I'm going to kill myself') I did get some Mike's though, and brought them home, so hey, not a total loss, and hanging out with Aaron and Bo was pretty fun. Anyone else I knew spent the time away anyway, heh, I ended up clicking into a drawing mode eventually. Then Noah was on his way but messed up a corner and ended up in a field, but couldn't drive out of the mud. We couldn't push him out, he had sunk his drive wheel in too far, but whatever, we can get it out with Dave's Suburban tomorrow. Too bad on the way home when driving by his car was in invisible mode. The fucking cops towed it because 'it was on private property and the owner didn't know about it'. Apparently when you are stuck in a ditch you're supposed to call 911 (there's a non emergency 911, did you know that?), and consideration for the sleeping schedules of others is not to be used. ()*#MJNFS#$. I really want to take the fuckers to court to pay the towing fee, $65 is bullshit because some yonie patrolman had such a lack of better pasttimes he decided to tow 'that there fancy import, wut is it, a maz-da?'
Grrr.
I got to bed at like 5, very frustrated, but I did actually sleep late. I was in the super heavy can hardly hold myself up state until like 12, and got up at 12:30 - been a long time since I slept like that. Now I need to scheme up what I'll do for the day. I think I'll get this sticker off the fairing and see if I can't get it painted in time to ride today. Probably not, maybe I'll take her out with the mismatched fairing. Auuggh I want to ride so bad. Can't ride after 5 though, that's evening, and Sunday evenings are not my gig - no driving at that time for me. My injuries are sort of seesawing, but I think going towards better. The road rash is definitely healing (the bugger is between that and the medical type I wanna scratch it reallllly bad), but my shoulder and knee seem to be alternating or sort of randomly fiddling with when they'll hurt like all hell and when they'll be fine. errgh.
And then something is kind of funny, but it worries me too. I suppose I can see it 'working', in a sort of sick way, until it has to really work, and then... well shoot. I suppose I'll be near when it does, but I wish it wouldn't. Maybe it will never need to be real and it will work out peachy keen, that could be kind of nice, until it does. Maybe I'm off too.
~red~

04.26 trance
DJ Doboy - Trancequility is striking chords with me now. I really liked Goldfinger's 'Superman' when shuffle hit it a little bit ago too, but... I think I'm getting more and more trance these days (if that's possible).
I've wavered a lot on whether or not to buy this RX-7. It's so sweet, it's the perfect RX-7 for me to get if I'm going to go second gen (which I must, because I even though I reallllly <3 3rd gens, they start at like 5 grand, and a good one is atleast 7), and I keep finding more things wrong with my car. I knew it had an exhaust leak somewhere because I could hear it, so I checked yesterday after I replaced the power steering reservoir, and the exhaust manifold is cracked... uuugggh. Calvin may be able to fix it, but ;lkasd;la. I clicked with Noah's car on the way back from prom too, which is surprising because usually his pos shifter keeps me from really feeling the car much at all - it's all so loose. Dave thinks that Japanese cars have no soul (unlike german or european cars), and say it irked him after awhile when he had his Celica GT after a few years. I agreed with him initially, because there's nothing like a german car, but i think I found it. I knew it had to have something in it, because the Japanese care about what their building (I mean look at the guys who build mechs! They love them!), but the culture is so different it makes sense that it would be a different feeling. I was pulling down the turnpike though, and another RX-7 came up beside me. It was so sweet, we had a little race down the straightaway but he wussed out when a turn came up (it was raining) and then never pulled up close again.
So, on the way back from prom. It was pretty eh, I was scrambling like hell to be ready in time and everything, I had been going nuts getting a new reservoir in my car so I could drive it over to this bodyshop and get an estimate on punching out the FR, and the mother fucker was closed, a full 40 minutes early. le sigh! I have to understand but it was dissapointing because I could have really used that information to decide whether or not I'll buy this RX-7. I'm leaning towards it again though. Oi. Oh right, prom. Dinner was really fun, and it was cool to hang out with Chris the whole time. Oh sorry, I mean Dave. But other than that it was pretty boring, because Priti's clique was the one who wouldn't be prone to dance and such.
My mirrors should be here around Thursday, and my windscreen sometime early week after next. I haven't asked him yet, but I think I can just borrow Rob's until then, and I have one mirror, so I can ride as soon as I'm done painting this fairing. I need to get all the decals off though. Whoa, totally got distracted staring at my GSXR600 model... god I love bikes. I'm gonna go get with the sticker removing. This weekend should be interesting....
~red~

04.24 numb me
Goddamn. I got back from the dentist, and I'm happy I'm not all cavitizized anymore, but it was friggin $294, which is like... momma oi. I took my fender off, but it was hell, as they spot weld it and glue it and shit, so instead of getting a junker one for $25 (if I take it off) I'm just picking up a new for $62, because I thrashed the shit out of mine getting it off and I don't think I could get the other one off without messing it up a lot. I've got most of my motorcycle parts on the way, others I just need to tell the guy to ship and pay. So.. hopefully that will be back on the road soon. I need to order another jacket, but never have time. I need to go argue with CEI so that we don't have to pay our bill in full, since we're getting half of what we pay for. and then back to work. peace.
~red~

04.22 make you go gasp
I'm listening to the Crash Test Dummies, and it's nice. It's different to hear him singing seriously. Granted I'm not listening to the lyrics at all, he could be singing about bananas tangoing with rocketships, but, it's different than 'Mmm mmm mm mmm'. Wow, I just realised how incredibly ironic the band name is.
Haha, why you ask?
Let's do this chronologically. I've been pretty out of it, for the last week and half or so, as far as talking to people goes. Told people I'd tell them about it later, just brushed it off, said I was okay, whatever. I hadn't processed it yet, and I'm not sure I have even now, but, I want to write about it and get it off my chest and let people know. Sunday night a week ago, I was going up Yoder road to meet Rob somewhere. I've been on the road a few times, 4 or 5, but, only in one direction. I was coming up a hill, just driving comfortably, not flying, not on the phone, not singing along.. 45, 50 mph.. I wondered whether there was anything nasty on the top of the hill, but I looked carefully for signs or power lines turning and saw nothing, just a 'School Bus Stop Ahead', which isn't rare when visibility is low such as a steep hill. Crested the hill....
Oh look at that. The road goes directly to my left. As in it's beside me now. I had about ..00101 seconds to react, but it didn't matter because my outside (turning, gripping, helping) tires were already on gravel, and well, it was hopeless - I went sideways into this guy's lawn... oh shoot, I'm going to hit that tree. I thought about hitting the gas but that would have just moved me forward to make the damage worse, but not enough to hit the trunk - which I knew was a definite on the car being totalled. Sooooo I waited a second or so.. slam, the RF hit the birch tree and spun me 90 degrees to face the road, and I stopped. Shit. Well, nothing to do but work to fix things... shut the car off, made sure I was okay, got out, called Rob and no reception, called Dave to come car caddy me out. Assessed damage... tire hissing, FR speed dented to outrun an Indy car, front grill had flown off (it was broken and loose anyway)... but not that bad. When I pulled it out there was an oily fluid which really worried me, but it turns out it was just that the power steering reservoir had exploded, even though it was on the other side of the engine compartment. My battery also flipped upside down.. whaaammmy. The rim (something like $300-500 a piece new, and aren't being produced anymore) has a dent an inch or two deep in one side where it caught the tree... I sent it out to be rebuilt if possible, and found a quarter panel at Ulrich's, just have to pull it off on Thursday. It actually doesn't look too bad underneath.. we'll see.
This fucking ... grr, there's a good 3 second lag between typing and appearing, it's driving me nuts
That sucked. Sucked a metric fuckload. I kind of decided I'd best deal with it though, went to work... Terri gave me a hug the next day and it helped a lot because I felt like I had noone to go to, for that kind of help. I think I posted about that, but I have no idea right now. Anyway, she joked about how she should have invited me to dinner after all, (she was going to but thought Roba nd I were going to do something), and I wouldn't have been on the road. Oh well - no sense in thinking about all the variables, there's an infinite amount and it won't get you anywhere. Mistakes, yes.. possibilities, no.
This weekend Terri had invited me for Easter dinner but I was going to Michelle Book's house (which was great) instead, so I passed. I got back from there and waved to Dave and the crew, checked messages etcetera, got my riding pants, and headed back out. You may have seen this link in my profile, it saves me writing it twice: (read it )
Yeeaaap. I think the two were within 10 minutes of each other, just a week apart. Unbelievable. I am never turning down a dinner invitation again. It's pretty tough... the last few weeks I've been decidedly lacking on middle things anyway - either one end of the spectrum or the other, and then both of these... *wooh sigh* I'm really sore, it took a day or two to kick in and now it's kicking me.
But you can't let a little kicking keep you down. Or a lot. I've been keeping my chin up.
More when I've got the chance.
~red~

04.19 sight
Yesterday I just worked until about 2 oclock. Mike called because he was bored, so we went up to the Exton Mall, and then stopped by Cycle Max on the way home to drool over new motorcycles. (I'm still hoping if I stop in to see that black 03 Hayabusa enough, it'll follow me home). We went back to his house where Jeff Porta was - he joined the military and works on the navigation controls for F-14 and F-16's, which used to be cool because he also worked on C-135 gunships and the CH-15 (or whatever) helo gunship things, but now they changed everything so he never gets near a plane, but works instead in a shack where they bring the control pod to him. Mike showed me the lights on the green hornet too, pretty sweet.
Soon after I got home Donna and her roommate stopped by to see the apartment, which was nice - don't get to see Donna much, and her roommate is nice. I've never met anyone mean from Wisconsin (yes I've met other wisconsin-eese), but, eh. I called Larry and told him to come over then, and once George arrived we just waited for Noah to come home from work and then went out to get some eatin. Ended up at Denny's so I could go to Wal Mart afterwards and get some stuff from the house, and it was pretty damn fun(ny). As we sat by the big no-smoking window, these two girls appeared from around the corner, skipping, then ever so gently but far from gracefully fell on their faces, much to our amusement. Noah gave them a big thumbs up and we all waved and they waved back, once they regained their footing. Then their emo boyfriends came up behind them, and George sarcastically pointed out 'Uh oh, now we're gonna get our asses kicked' to which Larry said 'They're emo thugs, what are they gonna do, teach us how to love again?' Lol, much fun. They sat in that big corner booth by the front door, so on our way out Noah and I totally fell on our faces - their whole party exploded with laughter, totally worth going up to Reading for that alone. We went to Wal-Mart then and I got some stuff for the apt that's been bugging me, as well as a watch... mine finally lost all it's buttons, so I decided using it for 5 years as it slowly decayed, having paid 2.50 for it, was enough use out of it. I got my watch for $10 (On clearance from 15, omfg that's righteous, eh?) and it does most of what I want from a watch plus it glows pretty blue - woo!
We (now plus Mike who met us at Denny's) stopped by Dub's to see everyone who we hadn't brought with us because they were drinking, and it was... eh. Lots of people there I liked, but Dub was nasty high/had been drinking too. He did drop this little gem though:
"As soon as I stop smoking weed, I'm done with it."
Blech. But Bo was there and he's a good drunk, and Missy's nice, Jared rules, and Carrie was there too - she's <3. Rob was as well but dissapeared like, right away. I snaked 2 Smirnoff Double Black Ice or something like that - it tastes like soda :P I really wanted to taste, because Rob had bought two bottles of vodka the likes of which I'd never tried, but I looooove the vodka, and I didn't want to even fuck around with alchohol because I was tired and I'm riding this morning. Oh well.
Now I'm off to meet two guys, with whom I'll ride to state college, to meet about 6 other guys - wooooot! Should be a sweet day of riding. See you this evening, or when I see you next.
~red~

04.18 zie
(Tuesday?) night was fun. It was sooo nice outside, I was dying to ride my motorcycle, but, I decided I'm going to keep sticking with the law for now (god knows why) so I didn't take her out. I did pull out my bicycle though, and rode a mile or two. At first it just felt really unsafe, because I was on the road without lights/signals/reflectors, heh... I hope I don't feel like that when my kid wants to ride their bike. Anyway, I went a mile or two and then came home. Lauren had told me that a few of them were camping in French Creek for spring break, and said I should visit em. So Noah and I rode our bicycles out there. We ended up riding about a mile uphill in the wrong direction before they realised it (once we were at the park) then probably another 1 or 2 to get to their campsite, so I think we pushed 10 miles. It was so awesome, the moon full, and everything so.. ahh incredible. I loved being able to tell what kind of water was off the road by feeling the temperature changes and stuff. Ace, the peepers are going nuts behind your house, you should hear them.
The next night Noah and I went up to this big dirt pile up 401, across from Summerfield, and jumped our bikes for awhile. That was fun too. I love being outside. It's still weird that I'm like.. done.. with playing video games like I did before, but I guess I'll get used to it as the idea sinks in. AC is like childhood - not in it being juvenile or anything, but, it was a really wonderful time, but it's gone, and I'll never get it back - a little bittersweet to me. Goddamn that game rocked socks.
I keep having random lines/visuals from reading 'The Stranger' pop into my head. I think I kinda liked the book... I picture the main character in my head as Adrian Brody. I suppose I should see the Pianist, but I doubt I'll ever get around to it.
George is going to be around this weekend! That's sweet. I really wonder whether or not the ride at state college is going to go through though, on Saturday... weather isn't being wholly compliant.
To work.
~red~

04.17 Boys Don't Cry

But I just keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
Because boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

It's been a bunch of The Cure this week. Tomorrow I have a half day of work because Dave likes to go to the Good Friday services, so maybe I'll have time then to put all of these updates I've been writing (in my head) in. This is the bazillionth time I've sat down and as I started writing, realised I had no time.
back to work.
~red~

04.14 Tori
I heart Tori because she's so fucking amazing. I am listening to a cover she did.. of Raining Blood by mother fuckign Slayer. She covered Slayer. That rules, in my book. I downloaded even more absurd amounts of Tori this weekend, but I'm still kicking myself for not using Jen's computer to dupe every one of Brandon's (and accordingly, Tori's) albums while I was out there. Oh well, maybe he can send back dupes with my mom. Yep, my mom is going out there. For multiple days. Good friggin luck to you Brandoi.
I wish I was going out. Mein bruder sent me the website of some hoser from out there (an asian guy with FF posters in his room and a riced out Honda.. as run of the mill as you can get at UW lol) and he had a couple of live webcams on his site looking out over Seattle. *long sigh* I miss it a lot.
I had funny story from Sunday, but I'm not in spirits to make it funny right now. You can condense into I was about to go riding and decided to fix something sort of unimportant quickly, but dropped a socket which magically leapt through the side of the fairing, leading to two hours of removing all of the fairings, weaseling out the socket, and reassembling the plastics/mirrors/turn signals. Atleast I could ride it then though, I guess Rob could take the plastic on and off all he wanted :| I wonder what he'll do about his bike...
Anyway, I'm in pretty bad spirits, as someone from Inital D would say. I always liked how they said 'he's in good spirits' in that show, and other anime for that matter. Anyway. I haven't felt this ... bad ... in a long time. I really fucking wish Susan was anywhere in god's green earth that I could talk to her for 20 minutes but she's 'hoping to be back by summer.' (good for her, but) oi.
I'm really glad I've got Brandon I can call and Rob to do all kinds of things with, and other friends, but... I miss having a friend I can collapse on when I'm overwhelmed, or cry around, or someone that gives me hugs when they think I'm upset. I haven't cried in recent memory, but maybe that's why.
I should go to work.
~red~
p.s. - Oh yeah, I can do real wheelies now, it's an awesome feeling. But.. yeah.

04.12 Send Me An Angel
It kind of made me sad...
~red~

04.12 Mirando De Lado
Nope, don't know what that means, but it's the name of the Kinky song that is playing, and Kinky rules. I got to take Oska out again today, finally (sheesh). This weeks weather was so deplorable, heh. I took out Rob's bike as well, because he thought 2nd gear may have had some issues. - 2nd gear is missing teeth.
    :| sigh. I haven't told him yet because well, I may as well be the angel of death. A car has a transmission with a dry clutch - the transmission and engine are in separate cases, sealed off, so you can take off the trans to work on or replace it. But Katanas (and many other chain driven motorcycles) have a 'wet clutch' - they call it wet because it's all covered in oil and such, because the engine, clutch, and trans are all in the same casing. Laymans story short? You have to crack the engine in half to do anything with the transmission - a metric fuckload* of labor. It's a big setback, because this is why we replaced Rob's engine, the gears were out. Yeah, it's hard enough most replace the engine rather than do the gears. Oof.
But then I took my bike out. Mmmmm mmm good. I found some really nice roads in the Warwick area I didn't know about - one stretch was running through a valley with few (huge, old, expensive) estates on it, and it felt so open despite being in a valley - it was exquisite. I want to show people, but I don't think you'd feel it so much in a car, so, once I have my license... =] It felt good to be on my bike again. His exhaust is sweet, but I kinda like the stock, and mine is so much smoooother :) [may have something to do with the fact that my tire is new and his is bald/has a flat spot, but WHATEVER] Mm. It was a good ride, and I really could have gone from then until sundown, heh, but, there's a small number of things that will get me off my motorcycle voluntarily, and I'm waiting for one now, so it's okay.
I bought the Stranger last night and read it, half last night half this morning while I waited for the roads to dry. Interesting, more on that later.
I saw the PS Berks production of Little Women last night. I never read it because somewhere in my childhood I got the impression it was really friggin boring - not sure how. I think my mother read it to my sisters, but... well I have no idea. It was good though, damn good. Jamie and Erin were the shizznit too. You could actually catch it today, if you read this in time - 2 pm, at the student center or whatever shizzno - the place with a stage-zor. And it's free! O_O
Mmm. I think I'll balance my checkbook. Peace.
~red~

04.11 making
Have you ever made a music video? I was waiting out the 35 seconds for a snog to DL ( *G* ) so I turned on Biker Boyz again - I downloaded it because I'm curious about it like I was with Fast and the Furious, and figured this way I'm not giving any money to it, but DAMN. It's awful, lol. Anyway, the song started playing when it was done downloading, and it was really fitting , so just as the song started to pick up, I faded down the movie. It was pretty cool. (no, it wasn't anything complicated, it was Time of Your Life for goodness' sake, but regardless)

So the motorcycle is running. Not all that bad either. I'm tickled pink to the point I make Elton John look straight, lol. I think it's just damn cool that having never done anything like it before, Rob and I could drop an engine out, put another in, put it all together, and have it work on our first try without having to redo anything. His exhaust sounds mean too, it's sweet. And when he's ripping on it he gets the fire out the back of the exhaust now and then too - sweet :D . Well, that was before we had it tweaked quite right, but still. ;alksd;laksd;a it's alive! so sweet... I'm damned proud of us.
And holy mother mary raping the crucifix, is that boy fast as fuck. I guess I'm just still a noobie, but damn... we got back and I was like 'thought you were going to take it easy' and he's like 'that was me taking it easy' and I was like, O_O ... actually I think it was just bad because on one corner I messed up a little, so he got ahead of me and I decided to just slow it down because I didn't want to mess up a corner a lot - I had never driven hella fast at night before. I am sure my taillights look sweet though :D.
I was thinking about how Daytona has it's bike week, and this was kinda like my bike week. Monday, Tuesday (although briefly because the book told us the wrong torque spec and the first rassin bolt we put in snapped), and Wednesday nights were the engine swap, last night putting the final plastic on and tuning it a little, and it ate up my days because we were staying up so late. Totally worth it though, imo. I think my next thing to concentrate on will be the guitar (for like the billionth time). I figure if I keep trying, even though I usually don't stick with it well enough, I'll start retaining things. Hopefully not water. I hear retaining that sucks.
This week has been so spectacularly shitty for riding. And skating. And skating meaning rollerblades. And bicycling. Wtf :p It was a good week to work on the bike though, I suppose. The shop is starting to feel like a cage, cave, den though. I suppose spending 17 hours a day somewhere for 4 days straight will kind of do that, lol... it'd have been better if we could have the bay doors open again but noooOOOOOooooO! I'm Mr Weather, and I've got to suck suck suck it up to the max max.   Ah well. There is wicked wind and rain right now and that's kind of cool... blah I wanna ride, heh.
La Fin Du Monde!
I'm wearing that shirt so I felt like saying it... :p. Anyone want to see Bad Religion this Thursday? lemme knowz0r.
I'm going to buy a digital camera and I want to take my time and make a good decision and get it cheap, but... ahhhhhhhh I can't wait! Using Brandoi's in Seattle was the nail in the coffin for wanting one, and hell I've bought atleast 2 in developing prices by now. Plus with a digital camera I have no need for a scanner, also something I've been wanting for awhile. But, I want tooools, and motorcycle parts, lol... :| We'll see.
Better be off to work.
~red~

04.10 plenty
I've done a lot and have tons to write about, that I'd like to write about; but, absolutely no time to do it in - so tired. Likely write in the morning.
relax.
~red~

04.08 wrenching.
"I had a lot of time just to myself and my brain and so i did a lot of reflecting on myself. It just ended up putting me into a depressive mood. I realised that I'm going nowhere in life and am the person who will end up attending her high school reunion without accomplishing anything or is married with three kids already. When I was younger going into high school I had these wild dreams of making it big and using what talents I thought I had to make myself famous. I have just about given up on all that now because every dream I've ever had and everything that I deeply wanted has just been taken away from me. "
That was on some weblog I ended up at bouncing around friend's links. It isn't how I'd write, but I think it's what high school generally does to kids - if they even make it that far with motivation.

I had a bunch of things to post about, but I don't really feel like it, and they were interesting to read but not that important anyway, I think. Regardless, I'm bloody tired. We were ready to bolt the engine in, had all the mounting bolts in finger tight, and I started to torque the first one. 40 ft/lb on the wrench (for a 36-45 bolt) and the blasted thing snapped before it was in range, so we had to stop, since neither Rob nor I are qualified to pull out broken bolts yet - we'll have Dave do it tomorrow. I guess we are getting close though - need to buy a battery as well. What should be 12 volts is 8, and drops right to 0 with load, heh...

I did get my taillight conversion done though, with fantastic results. I really wish I had a digital camera or a scanner to show you all with, because it's super hardcore to the max. Most of you see me on the bike now and then anyway though. I had a while to do it because Dave nearly got himself killed today. The Suburban was idling in the parking lot while Terri was inside and the kids took it out of gear. Dave tried to hit the brake with his hand, but didn't get to it before the rear wheels dropped off the edge of the road into a steep ditch - he slipped back and the door whacked him across the chest, then drug him with the 7000 lb truck. He's damn lucky it did, or he would have been run over and his kids likely would have grown up like I did. He was at the ER all day, and all I had to do was an oil change, so I spent a couple of hours cleaning the new engine, then checked the mail and wala, my taillight. Put a good 3 hours into installing it, I had to do a lot of cutting and shaping to the inner assembly, and rewire it to fit the stock plug. But, as I said, it looks freaking awesome.
I really need to sleep.
~red~

04.08 wrenching.
Nope, that doesn't say wenching, so quit thinking about it, hos. Yesterday Rob didn't work so he came to start working on the bikes before I was done work. He and Noah worked at disassembling his original bike, and after work and dinner I took apart the bike we had bought for the engine. I was kinda worried I wouldn't get to do some things because they were takin it apart while I worked, but I guess it ended up great because I got to do an entire one on my own, hehe. Rob and I finished up about 1:30 last night, having pulled the engine out of the parts bike and stripped his damn near completely. We didn't swap the swingarms and rear yet, but we're going to do that after we have it running, since you don't need the engine out for it or anything. It was a lot of fun, we went through a lot of my CDs doing it, hehe. At one point I looked at these two tail fairing sections and they really reminded me of something....
So I put on my helmet, wore a lower fairing over my chest, and put one of those fairings on each arm and I was a totally badass gundam, lol... we got a sweet Polaroid shot of it. Tonight we're going to start the installation of the new engine, which should be the harder part, lol... but I'm excited about it. God I love working on machines like this...
Now Plizzayin - Radiohead and Tori Amos
~red~

04.06 wind
My weekend was good. Friday night we intended to see a german film that was part of the international film festival going on now, but we arrived too late, so we went to Jim's then walked around South Street. I saw one ring I liked in Zipperhead, but I didn't want to drop $17 on it, and I didn't feel like dealing with feeling like I'm buying myself happiness. (besides, how Gollum is it to buy a ring for that reason?) We were Kara, Eric, Sarah and myself, and Aaron came for a bit (although unfortunately about 10 minutes before we had to jet). George called me unexpectedly on our way in to tell me that he had rather spontaneously decided to come home for the weekend. Woo! I love having him around, he's a good guy. That's how I feel about most of my friends. Except for the girls - they of course aren't guys. ... shut up. Anyway, we met Jared, George, Rob, Missy, and Noah at Exton Diner when we got back, then everyone came here. There was a happy amount of video gaming and such, hehe :) On Saturday I really wanted to ride but the weather was crappy (It's supposed to friggin snow/wintry mix tomorrow, what the flying egg roll is that crap?), so I stayed in. The aforementioned people plus Larry, Dave, Priti, and Justo were all here and I got some things done around the house, as well as grocery shopping. (mmm, food.) Lots, and lots... and then a few more.. dishes were done with George's help, and then I made everyone some food. Looked around for motorcycle parts on ebay, then went to the Zwan concert. It was awesome. I got shitty directions so I called Aaron's dad, because he's the man, and he got me there. The opening band was great, as I mentioned, and the whole concert really really ruled. It was such a dream come true to see Corgan live, especially that close. Maud sucks, lol. I hope Zwan comes around later this year so I can go with someone else.
This morning was the first Sunday of the month, which means a motorcycle meet in Ephrata. I was meeting a couple of people Katana Planet, but daylights savings fucked that up so I went on to the meet, and luckily I spotted them there. Afterwards the three of us plus another we met in Ephrata went for a ride after getting some lunch. My first experience riding with other people, and it went smoothly. I even led for awhile :) I had a ton of fun. When I got home I mounted two of my old Kumho's onto George's car so that he wasnt driving home with a tire showing cord (what a nut). Bathed (ahhhhh. daylight savings robbed me of that this morning too, I smelled like concert :|) went out for a bit (it was good), came home and tinked around the computer, motorcycle videos and such. Rob came over with his bike later, so it's finally here - w0ot!! We can start working on it now, yes yes yes :) I'm so excited, because I get to tear apart a motorcycle *drool*, and I get to rebuild a motorcycle *drool*, and I'm going to have someone to ride with. WHEEE.
George hooked me up with this sweet stereo, it's an Aiwa (I keep wanting to call it Audi) which has been my favorite brand for a long time. I think because I was so pleased with a pair of headphones I bought from them. Great sound quality, completely blocked out outside noise, and they were comfortable as hell - all for $20. Lasted a good 4 years, and then got the problem any wire like that will eventually, it degraded around the jack. Anyway... I can't wait to hook it up to my computer, but I have no idea where my RCA -> 3 mm converter is. Argh! I guess I'll buy one tomorrow night. I was thinking it'd be a good reason to take the bike out (like I need one, lol), but the weather is supposed to mc-suck tomorrow... blararrrghgh.
You are listening to Tiesto live from the essential mix arena on radio 1 at Homelands 2002...
Or you should be... good mix. I'm still all for shooting any raver who brings a fucking whistle (or airhorn.. *broils*), but... it's not too bad, and the music makes up for it. I'm off to bed. au revoir.
~red~
p.s. - the ears are still ringing strong :P

04.05 Zwan
I finally got to see Billy Corgan live, that's a dream come true. The concert was super mega awesome to the max (including the opening band Children's Hour), but I'll post about it later. I have to get up for a ride tomorrow, and damn, are my ears ringing.
~red~

04.03 time
Why does it always feel like it's been so long since I've updated? I think "Damn, it's been days", then when I log in, it's been one maybe too, haha. I had another dream where my bike got hurt, it made my very sad. The first I had one was the night before Dub's driveway attacked me (the whore that it is), and a couple nights ago I had another involving a four wheeler. I had a 4 wheeler and a dirtbike, and I decided to take the 4 wheeler for some reason. I was romping around and then crested a hill to see a picnic table, so I hit the brakes, but it was gravel so I just slid. (Damn gravel!), Sliding wasn't doing me any good so I decided to just try and control hitting it. Well I went up over it, but I realised the jump wasn't going to go well, or something like that, so bailed and was fine. The ATV went soaring, did a flip, then landed on it's wheels. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but it had hit hard enough to fully compress the suspension, which then released... BOING the thing bounced up again and then landed hard on it's nose, rolling away breaking apart. I walked up to where it hit and rolled away then, and there was this trail.. maybe 4 feet long, 3 feet wide, and a foot high, of just miscellaneous parts, mostly nuts and bolts. Way more than you could fit in a car, let alone an ATV, but, there they were. And I thought 'I suppose the outside would have fallen apart first, so I'll go to the opposite end to start rebuilding it', even though I felt hopeless about it.
Then last night I had a dream where I was hanging out with lots of people on 82, on my motorcycle, and then I took off. I wanted to turn around then but had passed the nice pavement place to do it, so I figured ahh if I'm careful I can do it on this gravel crap. (Again.. damn gravel!) But, when I went to do it, even though I was going reallllly slow, she started to fall over. I almost almost (very close dangit) kept her up by spinning the rear so she wouldn't just tip over, but then she did very gently. I said "Dangit," smiling at someone who was watching, "I almost had her!" Then I got back on to ride to whomever I was with. But when I started her, she sounded really bad exhaust wise, then died. I tried again (because I didn't think there had been damage!) but it repeated, so I did a once over on the bike. I had sheared off the left exhaust! *cry* Why must my dreams torture me? :| Another day to be extra careful, or just maintain my wariness around gravel forever.
My dreams like that are almost always preminotory, but they're worthless because I never read them until it's happened. Something goes, and then I remember 'Oh d'oh! That's what that dream was about!' So I'm trying to get some use from them besides afterthought.

Rob and I decided we wanted to go skating the other night, so we got Noah and Justo too and loaded my bike, a few skateboards, and rob's blades into my car and took off. We were going to just go to Morgantown, but we saw the lights on at the HS so we went up there. It was really fun, heh, and we all felt good because we were outside doing something, lol. I could hardly push myself out of bed though, because yesterday morning and last night I was doing wheelies for a long while, heh. :)
I looked out the window a few moments ago and saw some dood on a lift truck working on our phone lines. On one hand it's comforting cause they should be getting rid of the noise so our DSL works, and at the right speed, on the other hand I'm in SB so it's kinda disturbing, hehe... I see him say 'Oops' or something and then I'm dead :� Our DSL has been kinda whack, and we'll actually have double the speed we've been workin with when it's fixed (yay), but the upside is we won't pay for what we've had so far - hoorah. Anyway.. I'm off to SB again.
~red~

04.02 p.
I want this to be a short update, but I feel like i could write for an hour. Here's to hoping I don't. I was just thinking - if anyone wants a CD made, or you can't get some video or song, lemme know. I've got a ridiculously fast connection and burner, for goodness' sake, I'd love to help someone with it. Even if you don't need it burned, maybe your conn sucks too much to get a good grab on it, I could DL it and then send it to you over AIM or something... anyway.
I got to ride my motorcycle yesterday, and damn, it felt good. I think the days off of it actually improved my riding. I had to think a lot less about what I was doing, it all felt much more instinctive. Like instead of thinking 'I want to lean this way, shift my weight a bit, and stay easy on the throttle' I said 'ooh corner' and my body did it all. It's like a switch got turned on, it was great. Anyway.. I haven't gotten to ride my bicycle like, ever! So I want to go do that now, I have 10 minutes until work... I am going to ride the hell out of this extended weekend. I have Thursday and Friday off, yeeha! Anybody wanna make something of it?
Oh.. and does anybody feel like doing a road trip? My mother's company needs someone to take a big van full of super expensive rugs out to Goshen, Indiana. I've done the drive a few times, no worries, it's "12 hours" ( I remember it being less )... anyway it would be anytime this weekend, I was thinking it could be a nonstop, do it in 24 hours gig. Can't decide if it's worth it or not, I love driving long distances, but... having someone to go with is pretty crucial on my interest here, I think. If you are interested, IM me or email me. I'm out to the bicycle for now, see ya!
~red~

03.31 O
damnit. I opted to watch 'O', which I bought a week or two ago from El Video. They have a bin of videos for $3, and I had always meant to watch it, so I picked it up. I like Julia Stiles too (although at first it was quite the opposite.. she kinda grew on me I guess), and I had heard it was good. Anyway... things have been pretty whacked out lately, so I figured it would be nice. I think it's her smile or something, but usually she's pretty soothing to watch act, although she's always in romantic movies which have never done good for my psyche. (I'm a sappy bastard, okay?) but, this one. Damn. It says 'most controversial movie of the year' or some shit on the cover, but, hells bells, everyone has their interpretation of controversial. But goddamn. It's an intense movie, and it didn't help. The main character is a... well you may as well find out for yourself. But, one of the other primary characters is a good guy, who gets fucked with - gets his head fucked with, and he starts to really unravel. But it isn't his fucking fault, it's this .. I didn't finish it because I'm scared of the end, and I should go to bed. Well, not that I'm so much scared of it, that I don't trust how it will end, and I go into work at 8 tomorrow looking at a long day, and I want to be as good as I can be, because being depressed/wacked around Dave doesn't work out that well. And working like that is pretty miserable anyway. But, instead of calming me or taking me away, I went right into the character that was falling apart. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel like anyone is fucking me over, or anyone is even aggressive towards me, nothing from the outside. Not even a strong negative force from the inside, I just ... well I feel like he did. You see him as being tricked and fucked with, but the character doesn't know that. He sees everythign falling apart, and as shit gets crazier, he gets crazier. I don't see shit getting crazy, or myself going crazy... man it's gotta be hard to try and follow this if you aren't me. I'm trying to show the parallels, why he pulled me right into him. Well fuck, I never said I was good at analogies.
So there's this swimming pool, right... ?
(do you remember that?)

sigh.
So I'm on my own as far as descriptions. I ... damn I'm not sure I want to write about all of this. I don't feel like I'll fall asleep tonight, but melt in an unhealthy way, pass out.
Is it wrong to "make" yourself happy? When it isn't natural, when you have to think ok 'positeeve' (wyclef), do something that's a pick me up, and concentrate on it? I'm not sure, not sure. I think I may be closer to knowing why I feel like I'm doing that or need to, what I do need or want, however you see it, to not feel like... this.
to the bed.
~red~

03.31colors again
I started a self portrait. I finished the green part and thought 'Wow, I could make this with a lot of detail.' However, when I endeavored to add more, I came up blank. A few ideas, that I repainted over, but no success. I think it already displays all too well how I feel I am. The two parts.. and the color background is just nice.
picture.
~red~

03.31*weather
Why in the flaming egg roll did I see snow yesterday? Allll of yesterday? Seriously, I think god is smoking crack. That's what I said to a lady who commented on it anyway. Lol - wonder if she was a christian. That was in China Moon. I went shopping at Cropper's (because Martin's is too holy to be open then) and smelled the shrimp walking past the seafood department, so I got some Shrimp Lo Mein. It was a strong craving. I went up to Sam's Club then because Rob has a card thingy, and got some nice cheap bulk food, so that I can wait longer to go out. That place is nuts, on a side note... grocery store, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart thrown into one. It was in that new super hetero 'shopping center' by the mall though, I felt dirty going into it, but... oh well. I did finally find some nice 15w 150 Mobil1 synthetic though, and changed the oil in my moto. She's still dirty from Friday's ride though, because I can't wash her inside the shop AND IT FUCKING SNOWED ALL OF YESTERDAY.
Seriously.. snow?! Arrgh. (can you tell I rode it for 10 minutes total this weekend?)
Said to Noah while laying on the couch: "Do you see how there is not a Katana 600 between my legs? That's a problem."
Nah, it really wasn't as bad as I make it sound, although the snow was every bit as ridiculous as I could. Today at 8 I can sign up for the MSF course, which is exciting, I can't wait for it. It's free, so I'm getting quite a few people to take it with me, should be a lot of fun riding the smaller bikes :) (There is snow on the ground outside.... gee-aahhh!) I got Shadowbane this weekend, which is good because I think without it I would have gone nuts. Well, probably nut, I didn't really get into it until Sunday, but it's a lot of fun. At first I was kind of leery, but... I like it a lot now. I am excited about getting off the noobie island to be able to do the more important stuff in the game, although we'll see about that happening. Really is sweet though.
We'll see about some other things, and I think one thing is over, thank god. mmm you don't get to read about them. peace!
~red~

03.29adrenaline
I had a weird day today, in an overall sort of way. I spent about half an hour this afternoon unable to get my head around.. my head. It was funny. (in a weird way). Good too though, overall. I had a great car ride with someone, in the rain. Someone else who leaves the wipers slow - it's prettier that way. I saw Spirited Away in the theaters then, with Dave, Priti, Justo, and Aaron. It was sweet. While I will go subtitled any day, one thing you miss is the little smartass comments they don't bother to subtitle - which can really make some of the secondary characters. It really is a great film though (And for you locals, Downingtown is showing it). Afterwards we went to the mall for a bit and I saw some good Marvel matches, then I came home for a few minutes... sunk... called brandoi. That helped.. er ist a gut bruder. (Don't hate me for that, german speakers) Then I was off to the Burke's, where Dub wanted people because he hadn't seen anyone lately.
On the way there I passed a car on 82, some Ford Escort wagon, no big deal... except the pisser sped up and turned his lights off and on. Not flashed high beams... shut them off. Wtf? So he's all trying to go fast when we get onto White Bear and I was like fuck this... *zoom motion* So I stop at the Cocalico sign and all, but don't see them... I ducked into the Robeson parking lot behing that first hedge, killed the lights and waited. Lo and behold about a minute later, EEEeeEEEeeeEEEee comes the Escort. And I peeled out behind him, turning the lights back on. He's trying to go fast at first, then slams on his brakes exiting a corner... then guns it (I think... so damn slow it's hard to tell). It was three teenagers, the one in the back constantly looking back at me. So, you leave Robeson, left turn, slight right on a downhill, then left, short straight, hard right before the uphill straight leading to the burke's hill. I decided to burn them in that hard right before the uphill straight, hehe, and it was good. I think the rush from that did a lot for lifting my spirits, albeit likely short term. I had a decent drive home then, too. I came into Elverson and the straight between town and Brick Lane was just pretty, lights on, empty, wet, so I couldn't slow down to turn in it... =] I went up to 345, brought 401 back, but again the song and road were too sweet, so I went up to 82, did a burnout to turn around (yep, in a FWD... I r00lz), then back to 345 and the same, then home. I always think about Rob as a crazy mother fucker (and he is) because of the shit he did on his Katana, but I guess I sort of am too - I love driving 401 at 80 mph in the rain, at night, on 4 bald tires. Lol :� .

I went to the coffee house on Friday, it was pretty fun. Mostly when Aaron did Improv and I got to be up there too for a bit. I really miss doin Improv, I wish there was a local comedy club or something. When I saw them setting up, I remembered how it felt to be thinking like that, the pictures I'd paint in my head and such. But, can't have everything, I suppose. Anyway, I just hit my dead spot, so it's time for sleepy. I would like to mention however, that I DLed a full album, a 1hour+ song, and a few other files, in the last 10 minutes.
... woo WOOOOO!
~red~

03.28mocha cocao blah blah shut up Why does Lady Marmalade get stuck right in your brain like an alien baby and a stomach? Except it doesn't explode out, which I think I'd prefer to hearing 'Voulez vous couchez avec moi, c'est coi' and 'mocha cocoa latte ya ya' or whatever the fuck it is, in my head, all day. But oh well. I'm sure some lkasd;lka song I've heard about 15 times a day for the last 3 years will be on the radio. Any genre station just sort of sickens me - atleast the pop stations change things once in awhile, even if it is crap. Sunny 104.5, Y102 - why do they have DJs? You are guaranteed to hear X songs in X hours, it's just a matter of order. But whatever. I'll take Y102 over that Sunny bullshit any day, holy god. And either over the christian hymn stab yourself station. *shudder*
So I didn't get my motorcycle license yesterday, which was pretty dissapointing. In a couple of minutes I can call to schedule another test, and I really think I'll get it this time. I didn't even pass the written test, because the DOT uses a very strange and unique form of logic, apparently, when designing these tests. But hey, I've seen 16 questions and they tell you the right answer when you get one wrong. Le sigh. That rattled me so much, I went into the figure 8 too slow, and between that and the fact that it was farking small, I put my foot down and failed. It's 48 x 28 feet. Medium sized cars are 28 feet long, ish, to give you a clue. I let myself feel like a retard for the ride home, and then decided to try and focus on the positive.. (*pause* what the fuck am I saying? meh) ..., that I still have a sweet bike to ride during the day, a bicycle, skateboard, apartment, friend, yada. yada.. yada... I had emailed someone and we went out then, which helped too.
Yeah. heh.
So I think I totally got a booty call last night, or something really close. Kinda freaked me out, but I think I'll pretend it didn't happen, because my guess is they are completely oblivious to how much of an innuendo it was. I just kind of stared for awhile, heh.
Nuff on that.
Dave was in the shop yesterday, even though he had ;lak324asd knee surgery the day before. Frickin lunatic. I guess we can't afford to just not work but, damn. He was limping all over and such, I felt bad. Finally around 3 he said he'd go up and go to sleep, thank god. I mean he was in the shop when I got back from running Dub's alternator to the rebuild place for him, around 5:30, but... it's something. I thought a lot about how it was hard for me to see Dave limping and just slowed down from his work, and compared it to watching someone grow old. People talk about seeing their fathers become less able to do the things they loved, and I kind of get it. Has to be scary for whoever is doing the aging as well. I'm 19, enough of this too.
Dang, I got the 2nd half of Moulin Rouge, and the first half, but the second half is from somewhere else, so I'm missing the 'Like a Virgin' seen, which is like, teh best, maybe my favourite (in competition with El Tango De Roxanne).
My monitor is blinking a lot, it had better not be dying...
I'd best be off for a few more things. adieu
~red~

03.27 Where are all the stupid people from?
I'm not sitting in front of the bathroom, in the hallway, anymore. This is sweet. Noah's computer and mine are online at the same time, also sweet, and we've got our DSL up, which is sweet... TO THE MAX! WOOO! :D :D We watched like a bazillion motorcycle videos last night while Rob was here, and I have the first two episodes of the animatrix as well, which are also sweet to the max - I reccomend you either come here and watch them or go check them out yourself at www.theanimatrix.com . Yes, I am too lazy to link that. My anime collection is expanding as we speak (Chobits!!), I can't wait to pick up Initial D and such. (although Initial D always was a pain to get, so I may wait till it releases and actually buy it).
I got a wicked cool.. wait.. I mean.. RAD bike from Shirk's yesterday too. It's a Mongoose Villian, great bike for flatlanding or jumping - rarrr can't wait to flatland. I've been wanting to do that since the first time I saw it, but never had the bike for it. Although I did do some cool stuff with the bikes I did have. Today is also my motorcycle test : woo, good luck to meh! I am pretty confident I'll pass. I have good common sense and I am very comfortable on the bike nowadays.

So why the title? Last night Rob and I had a hell of an experience, and when we left we threw in my punk CD. The Decline welcomed us with that appropriate opening line. Why so appropriate? Let me tell you...
So Rob saw an ad in the paper for GSA Auto Sales in Lebanon (uck) that had a '91 Supra and an 88 GLi for sale - way too good to pass up at least looking at we though, so we decided we'd go Wednesday (last) night. We drove out there, found the place, spent about 5 minutes paralell parking (damn tight spot), and then walked over to the lot. It was crazy ghetto fab, basically a lot on the corner of a residential block about the size of our apartment - the cars were packed in -tight-, with no room to walk between, and we saw two kids in hooded sweatshirts looking all of the 1994 Jnco rage, some 20-30 year old in equally clean clothing, and some old lady. None of them caught our eyes, moved towards us, or made any welcoming motion, so we walked over to the GLi (the Supra was sold). It had typical Jetta stickers on it, and some really, really nasty rice-ification. The clown had taken the badges and center pieces of the door handles, and painted them yellow. Bright-ass neon yellow too. Mind you this is a dark blue car (in a bad way). There were some dings, the trunk latch was broken, but not too bad. So in looking at the trunk hatch, I realise the car is unlocked. Unlocked... facing the street with no curb in front of it... dear god what a genius. So we get into it - Pep Boys quality 'custom' lock knobs, and the inside... whoa. Sunroof is bare metal, missing the lining, and there is glass all over the driver's side floor. Hmm, and the stereo is missing, accompanied by huge gash's in the dash above it. Yes... the window and sunroof were also cracked, even though it was raining. *blink* So we figure wth let's look closer and go over to the hut of an office and it turns out 20-30 year old is the 'salesman' (doesn't deserve the title), and he gives us the key to run it while he goes to get the plate. It does indeed have a new alternator and battery, engine compartment is pretty clean, and it looks like the valve cover gasket is still good. Rob started it and it had a good sound too it - they are strong, long running motors. I walk back to the door and Rob is laughing and like 'Wtf?' because the driver seat is totally wacked... he gets out and I reach in, the fucker isn't attached at all! Lol... so fucked up.

So then the old lady shows up with a tag for it, so we decided we may as well test drive it, and Rob drives. He pulls out into the wet intersection in front of the shop, and the seat lides forward and dumps down, rofl, dumping his foot on the throttle. To boot, Rob isn't used to the kind of torque that GLi's put out, so he spins them in first gear, then the start of second as well. *Shake head* lmao. He gets it under control and we head north. I had asked the lady where we could get non city streets, and she said go north on 72. So we did that, turned down a little road and there was a church parking lot there, where I got in to drive for a little bit. Rob did some figure 8's first, which didn't bring great things to light. It made a really nasty noise when you turned hard right, which may have been the tire rubbing - it looked like they had put tires on that had way too high a profile. Anyway, I drove it back, and it was a shame- the engine, transmission, and new clutch had the awesome VW feel, so solid. The motor was bulletproof. But goddamn is cornering scary when the bleeding seat lifts up, lol. We bring it back, park, get out, and the first thing out of the lady's mouth is 'We have your plate number' and then the guy 'Why are you thrashing the fuck out of my car?' They both said it like they spent 10 minutes thinking it up. They totally went fucking Jerry Judge Judy Springer on us, Rob and I are like what-the-fuck. The guy goes over to the car 'I'm going to see what they did to my car', after Rob and I spent a few minutes explaining to them we didn't care that they 'have 10 witnesses that saw you guys burn out' because we know we spun the tires - the MOTHER FUCKING SEAT FELL OFF, lol... then the guy comes back 'They tore the seat out of the car. You broke my fucking seat.' O_M_F_G I swear, this guy was soooo stupid, I seriously think his IQ was around 110, maybe. They went on about how we were gone 20 minutes (we're test driving car, like we're supposed to go around the block once?), how we 'ruined his new clutch' ["Okay, are you a mechanic?" 'Yes' "Then can you explain to me how in 10 miles, we ruined a new clutch?" '*stares*... I smell clutch, I smell.. you ruined.. I smell clutch!"] and they had our plate number, llaaa de fucking da. Yeah, we really drove fucking 40 miles to come fuck up an 88 GLi and take off. That's why we came in a GLi, and parked in a spot that took 5 minutes to get in and out of. And gave him our names and phone numbers. Grrr the fucking nerve to accuse us of thrashing his POS fucking car. The thing was solid on the inside, had potential, but between the dumbass last owner and this clown, it was way fucked on the little bits. I like how despite GLi transmissions being on the left side of the car, the smell was only on the right side, where the car made the horrible noise when turning right. God that fucker. So we were going to call the Lebanon police when we got home so that we could register a complaint or whatever, but saw an officer at a gas station on the way home. He gave us directions to the station that involved going back through Lebanon again, which led us nowhere... we stopped at a gas station, and some dumbass chick gave us even worse directions, so we got to spend another hour fucking around in that hick alsdal; town. It's officially on the 'never fucking go back there period' list now... I gave it a chance to look at a motorcycle for Dub, and this, but.. no more. That town is so friggin hetero. asl;dkas. Even the hookers are ugly, right Rob? *shudder*
Welp.. time for meh to go to workee. Peace!
~red~
"That's me inside your head"

03.25 hello
I'm sitting in the doorway of the bathroom, looking up at my monitor which is on top of my tower on top of my desk which is yes in the middle fo the hallway. Only way we could see if the retarted DSL modem works because they gave us a retarted flippin 6 foot cord. Yes, that will work - if you built your house, and thus put a phone jack right by your de1sk. asldaskdja. I hate that we are paying for it and can't even use it yet, especaially since Noah would be using it a lot. I spent a few hours last night trying with it, but then all the sudden it was 5 am and I was on the couch again... hmm. Heh.
Me: And if I did have it, I'd probably just download ridiculous amounts of movies.
Ace: And do nothing all day?
Me: d0od, movies of motorcycles.
Rob: Yeah, and do nothing all day?

Anyway, hopefully I can get this crap figured out, it really shouldn't be that hard - I have it working, but the 'remote computer does not respond' for whatever the fuck reason. The only reason I didn't wanna get DSL was because they say 'service comes to yout modem, beyond that you can fuck yourself.'. Their 'support' involves screenshots of them installing it on a Win98 machine or something, and they have none for XP, essentially. Should be able to get it today though, should be able to.

Laurie's mom: Laurie, what are you going to do about dinner?
Laurie: Eat it?
I had the best motorcycle ride ever last night. I was going down 401 when I started, well wind it back. I got my riding pants, finally, yesterday - woo! They are the bizzomb friggin biggity. Anyway, I was going down 401, and I looked at my tach and was like, wow, that's a little high, isn't it? SO I figured I was still in 5th, and was, but then even in 6th it was still higher than I expected. Then I looked over at the speedomeeter. Wow. lol. Then I did a bunch of backroads, ending up on 282. The last/first time I did 282 it was just kind of frightening to think of going fast on it. Now it's really really fun. What's amazing is that cars coming towards you look like they are parked, because you're doing and they 20. I can't wait to be able to really lay my bike into corners. Then on my way home, I bumped into someone (figuratively of course *wipes brow*) who I wasn't sure I'd see/talk to for some time. Then I had an awesome night, well right up until coming home to DSL configuring, heh. Ook :| Damn, have to cut this off, time for work.
Peace.
~red~
"I know it's weird, but I always felt bad for the fork."

03.24 Moz
We rented and watched Rad last night, because that movie is totally wicked sweet. And by sweet I mean gnarly. Haha, they really said gnarly too. Beforehand hmm we mostly just hung out. I rode my moto in the morning, then took apart Noah's brakes (he needs new pads baaad bad), went to see my sister for lunch at my mom's, and then came back here. Squirt came here then on her way home to play a little NFS and see the apartment, and when she left I was back on the motorcycle. On my way home I saw Jeff-dog driving and we both stopped (him, in all his defensive driving, by slamming on the brakes right where he was), and he gave me the Trigun he copied for me because mine dissapeared. <3 . My phone had been shaking while I was in a corner, so I called Aaron and he said we were going to raid Ang's house, even though we didn't really know if he was there. But, when we met at my house Rob showed up and we got distracted inventing a sport or two. Hehe, good sport, although I messed up my toe a fair amount... don't think it's broken though, so to hell with it.
On Saturday Rob and I drove down to the storage containers of a guy I met online to buy a bike/engine for him. The guy has 3 or 4 storage trailers full of bikes and parts, it's ridiculous - you can buy a trailer for 5,000 too.... tempting... :) but we ended up going with just a bike for Rob - was great when he got it, 2400 miles, and he sold the front end, plastic, seat and gas tank. Frame has one little scratch on it, that's it, and the whole thing is just clean. So sweet. I got a nice topbox too, for $150 with tools in it - woo!
Ow... my toe is still pretty swollen, and sitting on it is not cool.
Well, time for work.
~red~

03.22 if you love it, let it go
Hmm, lately. Last night Dub and I went to look at a motorcycle. It's pretty neat... a 1981 CB900F Super Sport... it was the fastest production motorcycle of it's kind, in the era just before crotchrockets, so it's still shaped a little like a cruiser - it actually has a bigger front wheel than rear, a nod to TT racing. It's an awesome bike, but I'm not sure it's for Dub. A bike that old would need tinkering here and there fairly often, which wouldn't be a problem at all except Dub is a big weenie with that stuff - thinks machines should run forever without any maintenance. Which is ridiculous, but whatever. We're going down today to buy an engine for Rob. I'd rather ride my motorcycle all day, but I guess I can't do that 24/7 :�. I'm excited for him though, and to see this shop, hehe.
Anyway, my sister is home, so I'm gonna go see her/show her my moto.
~red~
PS - SHE COMES HOME IN JUNE, WOOOO!

03.20 on and on and on
It's damn scary in the shop. KYW is on and they've been playing newsfeed after newsfeed all day, and I'm so sick of it. The voices are all the same, and so cold.. and .. sort of excited in a disgusting way. The sounds of bombs hitting and such, constant reports about things being attacked. It's all so horrible, I keep thinking about what it would be like to live in Baghdad.. and none of the people on the radio give a shit... on the TV last night the anchor actually said 'and hopefully kill some of them'. When did human life become so meaningless? It's so calloused.
I've felt like crap all day... I wish I could just ride away from it on my motorcycle in the warm air, but it's cold and raining. Noah left the TV on (I've never come home without him having left it on.. why the fuck he has it on literally all of the time is beyond me.. I can't stand the fucking thing) and it was.. you guessed it, more war crap. I turned up one channel though, and managed to get Sesame Street, which really I don't know, warmed my heart or something.
"Finally, we get to our number, 13!! And to celebrate, we have 13 dancing vegetables! I love dancing vegetables!" Count... you rock.
Back to work.. don't think there is much left to do, which is good.. I wanna wash my bike and remount the tire, then get the DSL working and all that. Peace. (I wish).
~red~

03.19 *blink*
Oh my goodness, jebus. At war. Oof. It's kinda scary - not to be at war, and not that I feel like we're gonna get gas'ed or bombed or whatever the fuck, but, watching Bush's address tonight... it really, really scared me that he is in charge of all of this fucking shit. Especially the blow up-y shit. Egads. Crap on a crap cracker. You name it I'll exclaim it.
Today was the first day I didn't ride after work! I wanted too, but I had all of 5 minutes and it was pretty cold, so I can wait... tomorrow morning I can, and after work and all that. I love the feel of the bike, it's near inexplicable, but... ahh. The rubber of the grips, the solid feeling of it under you. Mmm. I could just ride around on it all day pushing with my legs. Till I got tired and fell over. Work was a drag today, it seemed to go on forever. Mostly because I had to do a full tune-up on a rassa frackin Chevy pickup with the standard 350 small block. The distributor cap is all the way at the back of the engine, so the plug wires run behind it too, and the hoods on those are atleast 4 feet deep from any given side. Seriously, the engine is in the center, all the way towards the firewall, in the least convenient spot possible. There's no fucking reason for making the front end so big, it's just empty space, but they do... yay domestics. My ribs are still sore from leaning into the overgrown egg roll. Then I swapped the tires on this RX-7 that lives down the road, and because of the tire profile and rim structure, I couldn't just pop the tire off the bead - they kept sinking back on. So I had to manually push/pull the tire off the bead - gack. I actually felt my muscles do that burning or whatever from when you exert really hard. I haven't had anything challenge me muscularly (ahem) in a while. I did get to ride my bike for the first hour of working, that was a perk... but it was pretty fucking cold. Low 40's and whatever an 80 degree wind chill works out to.. yeah, heh.
I've been listening to Ben Harper, because he's really soothing. I think I saw him on SNL, but the guy was black... is he black? Cause that'd freak me out, I always figured he was white.. so I tried to listen for it, and I'm just lost... and obviously too lazy to look it up online. I don't really care, just.. kind of unsettling or whatever.
I wish we had our DSL set up, I'm waitin for Brandoi to call. He said it'll be lateish for him, which means hella fucking late for us though... so I'm going to sleep and super pray I don't sleep through his call. Maybe that girl will be in my dreams again, she was so nice. I remember when I slipped up and said that, her back was turned to me, and she was wearing a tank top. I had laid my hand on her to get her attention or something like that, and she was very soft, in a comforting kind of way.
crashed.
I'm listening to a Something Corporate song Molly had me download whenever ago and that's not anything I'm proud of, but... it's so ridiculously sentimental it works for me, although I'm not sure how. Maybe the way it desperately tries to pull tears out of you is a good enough distraction from all the reasons I want to cry. Why am I concentrating so much on making it clear I don't like the song? I guess I kinda do, although his voice is whiny.. stop.
Jeff-dog said he copied his Trigun for me and is going to drop it off this weekend. I'm looking forward to that, I love Vash, really do. His ideals are so close to mine in many ways. Love and peace! But seriously...
This weekend should be exciting... looking at a bike on Friday night that Eric is thinking of buying, it's pretty cool... an 81 CB900, it's a cruiser, he likes them more. Hehe, he is gonna buy these goggles too, he'll look cool as shit, lol. Don't know whether the bike is gonna be worth buying, will have to see, but it's promising... only 10,500 miles and it just had a lot of important maintenance done to it. Saturday Rob and I go down to the Baltimore area to pick up a partial bike/engine to put into his bike, and woo.
le sigh.
~red~

03.19 riding
I kinda wish I could be online more. I miss a whole lot of things, especially talking to all of my friends online. But I've been riding so much, heh. Rob says a bike is a replacement girlfriend - I think I just got married. (there's incredible irony here, but I'll touch on it later) :p. I am an abusive husband though, d'oh. Dub's driveway is such a piece of shit! There is a huge ol' dip where it meets the road (and the road itself is what, atleast 40 degrees?), and when I leaned to account for the roads angle, my rear wheel was still tooling with said dip, and kerplunk. I stopped before anything happened, but I scuffed the mirror and there is an eentsy beetsy nick in the exhaust. :_| *big anime tear down face* I know it happens when you're a n0ob and it's no big deal, but nonetheless I am like GAWWAYYYYY!!!. I had a nightmare the night before about wrecking my bike too. *smack*
Last night I had an enjoyable detailed and long dream. Problem was this one girl that I was getting closer to and liked throughout it asked me to run and do something for her (in some sort of pressured environment) and just before I left I said 'I love you' and she was like 'Wtf?'. I struggled, "ahhh! I... well I don't mean that.. well I mean like, but.. ahhhh!" And then I ran like hell. I did like her though... oh well.
I get to ride my bike for work today, wooo, to pick up some control arms in Pottstown. I am going to go get my morning ride in now though, and finally send this letter to my grandfather. Love and PEACE! (do you have my Trigun? I loaned it, and can't find it :[ )
~red~

03.18 :D
I've been on my motorcycle at every opportunity, heh. I got to visit a few people this weekend on my bike, that was cool. I even stopped at Liz's house where she and April were making these.. pudding cup.. ordeals. Haha actually they weren't that bad but, eh. Her mom came up behind me and tweaked my ponytail and said hi, it was really cool.. not all that easy to explain why. Anyway.. stopped by Audrey's then last night... hahahahaha. God I love that family! Let's just say that within 5 minutes of my arrival, her father had handed me a loaded .45 revolver, lol. :D I hadn't shot in a while but it was pretty sweet.
Anyway, Rob's here now. It's been bike bike bike lately - we are going to pick up a partial bike/engine for him to put in his bike this weekend - then probably sell that bike either random or to George, and Rob will be able to pick up a 750. I get to ride for work tomorrow, to pick up some parts - getting paid to be on my bike, w0ooooot!

There are some things I've been thinking about.. but they aren't necessarily all for you. So I'm off to play NFS with Rob, see ya :)
~red~

03.15 yyaaayyyyy
I miss some people, a lot. I've gotten over some people, in big ways. It doesn't mean I like them any less, but... I don't need them. I think it's okay to have someone be very important to you, and need them in some ways - I certainly need something(/one?), but, in this case, it was better to be a little more independent.
SO I got my bike. lakjsdaljkad droool again, goddamn it is the fucking bomb. It's so good augh, Dave could hardly believe I found something so ideal, but on top of that it's really fucking fast, lol... I haven't taken it above 6 grand and the bitch rips, and Dave said (from having driven it home from baltimore for me) it doesn't even open up until 8k. Well, wait, I took it up to like 7 once, and it's just... it's wow. So fast... motorcycles are amazing. Wowowow.
I love the shop manual too - exploded diagrams of everything with detailed instructions of how to take it apart and put it back together. Tomorrow I can ride again - damn the sunrise to sunset limitations of my permit. Shouldn't be a month till I'm done the safety course and have my license though.
le sigh.
~red~

03.14 HELLOOOOO MOTO!
l;asdl;kasjdlkajsdkljasdklajsldkjas!!! ;kasjdl;askjdiemna;pskndeOPPPP!!! OMFG!!!! I found teh perfect bike and emailed the dude yesterday evening but he didn't email me back all night and iw as like damn I bet it sold and then this mor ning I was like asdjkas;ldk no email from him in the middle of the night just this other guy from baltimore who REALLY LIKES HIS CAPS LOCK KEY but may have an engine for Rob to buy, anyway, and my brother, and then I rebooted and dialed and checked mah emailz and it was like 1992 KATANA 600 and I was like OMFZG *DIRLZ* WOOT WOOT and then i readz it and he 's like 'YEAH I FUCKING KICK ASS BUY MY BIKE' and i was like oh FUCK YAS and by that I mean his first sentence was this:
"Hi Greg, Yes the bike is still for sale, I live in Baltimore and the bike is in my garage. I have owned the bike since 92 and have only put 8000 miles on it so it has not had a lot of use. "
ORIGINAL FUCKING OWNER!
GARAGE KEPT!
8000 MILES!
NEW TIRES!
*dies*
I'm going to go spend 8 hours smiling at customer cars and then DIRLSZLLW FOR MAH BIKE WOOOOT!
~red~

03.13 hello, moto?
Rarrr I still haven't found a motorcycle. I thought I had a good lead on one, but then he sent me the photo. I knew the bike had gone down, but eesh - it's pretty thrashed. So no go on that, and I'm back to square zero. I need to not think about it so much, because the last thing to do with a motorcycle is buy one because you can't wait longer. There are sooo many out there just chillin whose owners forgot about them, it's very different from a car. You know there is something top out there, so there is no point in compromising.
I got our network up the other night. I called Brandoi and we did it about an hour and a half, I was very pleased. No major hangups. And DSL comes in 6 days, wooooohoo :) +950k downstream droool, I can finally get all the Initial D with any luck, and all sorts of other anime. Mmm mmm good.
Was going to post more but I won't have time to eat and look at enough motorcycles... I finished out cycletrader.com, motorcycleseller, sportbikeshop, and a couple others, so now I'm on ebay.. looks promising. Ciao.
~red~

03.10 premiere
The "funny file" makes it's debut.

03.10.03
Wasn't going to post this morning because I really don't have time, but I went to do a little clearing in the ol' spam account and one subject line was just too good to keep to myself.:
Ride the slut bus!
Lol, wooo. If that isn't tempting, I don't know what is. So last night was fun, Larry came over in the afternoon and helped me do l33t mods to my server box, now instead of a pink plastic milk crate it is chrome silver on the outside and the inside is black. The motherboards sits in it, and I made a HD rack inside using a coat hanger. It actually looks really cool. I took apart a keyboard too, painted it black and all of the keys, except those in a pattern to spell out 'RED' in giant capital letters across the board... they are red, of course. It's really sweet, actually, for using a can of 94 cent spray paint and one of $1.88. Justo, Monkey, Jared, Rob, and Mike all showed up later, it was good fun. I got to dupe some of Monkey's anime and such too. I managed to copy Princess Mononoke, Gone in 60 Seconds, the first 4 episodes of Hack Sign, Vampire Hunter D, and the Cowboy Bebop movie. I still need to copy all of X, rest of Hack Sign, Witch Hunter Robin because he says it rocks, and a couple other series. Yay anime :) I really wish I knew where my Trigun was. If you have it... give it back, mother fucker. Ooh..it may be at my mom's house.
:
Yeah, having my own place still rocks :) My room is starting to look better too, I found a chair in the attic and covered it with a blue sheet, so it matches my bed. Computer chair is black, along with the monitor and both keyboards, which matches the black velvet over that half of the desk. The other half of the desk has blue velvet on it, that matches the Viper on the other half, and the chair and bed. The red elephant head is on top of the server and sets off the red keys in the server's board, and the mouse's silver and black set off the case. Very nice. :) Next I really need to paint these computer speakers though.
Maybe I can align my car tonight, that would be nice.
And maybe the love of my life will come into the shop today. Yes... on her BMW RZ. Mmmm motorcycles. Dangit I want one so bad! Rarr!
Well, off to work. Hope I don't get in an accident on the way there... it's a dangerous 25 feet :D
~red~

03.08.03
Listening to: Freshly downloaded Cure. (other stuff earlier but that's a whole nother post)
Well I spent almost 13.5 hours straight in the shop yesterday, because right after work I got cracking on putting the new bushings in my control arms. Dave said he didn't expect me to have it done that night, so I'm proud of myself, hehe. When finished I took her out for a drive, man oh man oh man is it a sweet difference. The whole front end is wonderfully stiff and tight, and it's made a huge difference in how well I accelerate. In any kind of driving except holding a speed in a straight line, pretty much, it's improved more than I really thought a few things that size could. Oh, and the 40 HP I gain from their being bright red is nice too. "Wait... how.. how can they give you more horsepower?" - Mike Spirito, realising I was joking 2 days later.
I kinda felt bad spending Friday on the car because I didn't get to go to the mall, but Eric woulda spent the time with Sarah anyway, and Priti said not much of anything went on, so I think spending the night with Victoria was a good idea. I really need to re-align her and that pulling to the right hasn't gone away, but eh, I can deal with them later. Today I played AC for awhile and then called Justo to see what was up. Went over there and we ended up comin back here, playing GTA:Vice City for awhile, and then going to hang out with Dave and Priti. We watched the other disc of eX-DRIVER too, an anime Dave bought. It's pretty sweet and there are some really funny parts. I miss having Initial D though, a lot. Broooadband *tear* Verizon told me they don't service us, Service Electric does, and SE told me they are a pack of flaming hetero's. AKA 'Brick Lane is not yet ready for cable internet, but if you give us your number...' BLAH BLAH BLAH. Fuck :( I really wanted high speed stuff too, le sigh. Buying anime is just ridonculously expensive, and it's so nice to have, and plllbt. I brought over Brandoi's box though to use as a router here, so hopefully once I get one more cable from Jared, we can atleast share the dialup.
But how am I doing? I feel kind of pointless, because I'm not reaching for any goals, really. Biggest atm outside of one obvious exception is getting a motorcycle, I want one sooo bad. It was warm again today and I saw several packs of motorcycles. Rarr I should be on one. Man oh man I can't wait. It's so agonizing because I have the money but I don't have one to buy yet, haha. I could find one on Cycle Shopper or whatever, but word of mouth/someone you know is the way to fly on these things. I had a good experience with finding my car in a magazine though, so... hmm. Anyway, what else. Some people drive me nuts because they are like my mother. I left the outside porch door open once, and kept forgetting to go out and close it (because I never use it and it doesn't matter). My mother let it really get under her skin and such, instead of just closing the goddamned door. Sure, I shouldn't leave it open all the time and I can see consequences for leaving it open, but it would take 20 seconds to go close it, or you can spend days brooding about it. It's senseless. So whats like that? People that whine about things and aren't willing to do anything to change it. Particularly 'nobody ever talks to me, so they hate me' crap. Do you ever talk to them? Nope. Hell half the people that say it are probably thinking it about each other, ridiculous.
I gotta give credit to anyone who has been alone their entire life and hasn't turned out an overbearing asshole.
I like my job, a lot.
Moto!
Annnd I'm off to try these new DWI songs Justo burned for me.

ps.
I know I'm not pointless of course and I guess I don't really feel like that. I know what I am going to set as my next goals, likely, I'm just not there right now. I'm not actively studying or anything like that, and that's what bothers me. I'm getting to the point with cars where it's more learning a little technique now and then. I just like to learn all the time, it's one of my favorite parts of life. I may go for picking up some basic Japanese next, I've got a lot of the tools.
Anyway... yep. Sleep.
~red~

03.07-+
Is it the bitches? Is it the wealth? Is it the power you want?
I'm listening to a trance megamix deal, and in the middle a guy says that, and all of the sudden it sounded like Tracy Morgan, so I'm picturing him like on that one weekend update where he said he wasn't in the sketches that week cause he was black, remember that? Lol it's hard to listen to, because it's a really funny mental image. ... hehehehe.
Last night Mary came over and we watched Without Limits, when Noah came back from work. Prefontaine r0xx0rz, heh, but we didn't make it the whole way through because her parents called for her to come home. Apparently so many fucking idiots went off of 176 last night they closed down part of it for awhile ... le sigh. I bet I know someone that went off last night, heh, but seriously, conditions can't get that bad! People just drive way faster than their skill level and then wonder what happened. I suppose that is what bad conditions are though. Anyway, I drove Mary's car and Noah followed us to Sleepy Hollow and we got some wings cooked by Ruggiero, it was cool to see him. Reflecting on it afterwards a little depressing in a kind of sentimental way. Knowing Jon, and how great he is and all he could do and seein him in that old school ass kitchen and stuff... I don't know. Not cool. But, he'll be fine, I hope. Anyway then we went out and hung out at Mary's for awhile until I was too tired and we came home, but it was nice and relaxing. She was really happy to be back in the area, even though she's goin to Poughkeepsizzle for the weekend.
Ooh! Speaking of ridiculous rap-speak, download Gossip Talk by Missy Elliot (featuring Ludacris!), it's so goddamn funny. At the end these two people go 'Hizzoo? My gizzirl! (some crap I can't understand that is funny anyway)', and the rest of the song rocks too. Ooh and she makes a good burn near the end as well.
I actually got to play AC last night, that was the bizzomb. Between the night aforementioned in the previous post and that I had some awesome conversations with people I really missed. The nice thing about AC is if you're gone for a few days it isn't earth shattering. I wanted to log in and chitta chatta some before work, but I'm writing this instead. O_O! I know I know. RAHHHHHHHHH I need my motorcycle. No leads so far really :( Mark-o said a bunch of the people he works with ride or something like that though, so that may turn up. I hope so, cause I'm gonna die if I don't find one soon :p I think I'll do somethin with Audrey tonight, it's been too long.. hrrrmmm o_0. *pets his model Viper* It looks so hot on my desk. Well... I think I gotta peace out, get to work and all that. It's Friday, hooooorah! :) I am going to play AC and Gran Turismo 3 for like a billion hours this weekend! ... ok so I'll probably 'do something', le sigh, but whateeeverrrrrrr. Love and PEACE!!!
~red~

03.05!!!!

;lkajsdkjhasdkjabsda !! Damn sniper ninja stealth IMs, you know that crap where they send you something and sign off right away? Liz just told me the Flaming Lips are coming to the Electric Factory in late April! ROOOOOOAR SWEEEEEET. These guys are a rocking group and they put on a fantastic show. Despite it being in some (decidedly separate) ways one of the worst nights of my life, their set pwned. Although those three felelrs that did bluegrass and invited the whole crowd to smoke up in their tour bus afterwards were great too...
anyway!
WOOT! That fuckin rocks.
So what've I been doin? Bein busy! I worked a lot this week, and I've hardly held still. Last night I went to Justo's for dinner he made (yummmm), then the mall to meet Priti and Dave (I had been thinking about how it had been too long since I saw them too), then to Dave's to watch some anime, it was cool. I steaked a bunch of DVDs from Justo too, hope I get to watch them all before Mike takes his PS2 back, lol. The apartment is the bizzomb biggity, if you haven't seen it yet, (Since we moved in, pssshhh), you are soooo square. It's been pretty busy though, Ian, Tyson, Jared, Missy, Rob, and George were all here on Sunday night, monday Molly stopped by to see it, last night Mike Spirito cause he's back in town for a bit. I'm going to Blue Mountain with him and one of his teachers on Saturday, really excited about that. Over all I feel like I'm totally overworking myself because I never really slow down, but so far I'm keeping up with it. Tonight's the first night I was really at home for any length of time and without people here, but I was still talking to about 6 people and in AC, haha. Kookatsu's doing great though, she's been running around all night, and is already back to jumpin on my lap and such. She slept in my bed last night too, <3.

IT WAS 50 DEGREES TODAY! WOOOO! Man it was so exciting, I am dying for the warm weather. I don't know which I want more, a bike or some warmth, haha. I gotta get these bushings in my car too, see if it'll fix the pulling right.
I left my checkbook at the Burke's somehow and still don't have it, it's eating away at me not being able to balance it.. I'm so o_O. *emotes in front of subway*
I've been listening to like.. 4 songs because that's all the time I spend listening to music, about 20 minutes, hahaha... I really like 'Dad' by Goldfinger, and I've been listening to Ludacris too, so goddamned funny. Especially 'You's a ho'. And whatever else I DLed a week or two ago, some Pixies, a hunk of new trance, and some Souls of Mischief. Anyway, I'm outta here because I wanna watch anime, play AC, do a whole bunch of other things, ssheeeesh.
~red~

03.04.03 hmmm...
So last night Kookatsu spent nearly 5 hours in the bathroom. I had left the lights off in there so she'd have somewhere dark, but that's a little long. I told Brandoi and he started laughing and said 'Did she lock the door?' *grumble* Anyway, after a while she came out to sit under my desk. I'd like to think it's cause she <3's me, but it's more likely because the dryer was on then. Anyway, I woke up this morning and I have no idea where she is. The deep isn't that big, nor is it huge on hiding places. Hmm :| I just gotta hope she's inside and okay. The front door wasn't shut right when I woke up (asdja;sldka;lskda) but it was closed... so... oh god I'm not even thinking about the if's, if she got out.
Need to eat before I make my morning commute.
~red~
p.s. - Under the couch! Whew, she's just kickin it old school :)

03 to the third Alive!
Binns and I aren't dead! We just moved this weekend, and the phone wasn't back up until this afternoon. I know, it was hard for us too. Broadband should be here by this weekend, at which time our phone won't always be busy, and you'll be able to call us at 913 0217. Here's a post I started to write on Saturday (I don't have time to do a real update right now, just brought the cat over etcetera... lots to do)

So we're all moved in. No broadband which is a matter of time, and no internet at the moment which should be a matter of much much less time. Our phone line is to be activated Monday afternoon, but hopefully (as was planned to be done this morning but failed) Dave can switch our jacks to one of the other lines so that we can have some internet before Monday afternoon.
A fair amount of people helped me move, George had asked me about it and came in the morning, and when my phone called Dub ( I had nothing to do with it ) he offered to come after work. Justo called me and asked if I was moving and needed help (no idea how he knew), and Rob and Missy also assisted, so it went fairly smoothly. My mom offered her wagon for the morning/first part of the afternoon, which was great for transporting my bed and the couch. I really appreciate their help though, made things a lot better :].
I really like the apartment. You'll have to come see it, whoever you are. Internet situation aside the biggest drawback is that their isn't enough gravel outside to cover the mud - easily fixed. Terri asked where I was going to live if I go to school next year, and suggested staying here, and working nights for Dave - he could keep work for me that's due the next day. That would be so elite. I really like working for him, because it really is a kind of family, since, well, it's his family and me, haha.

Tada. I'll do a real post soon enough. <3.
~red~