Things Best Said

Got a few interesting ideas rattling around in your head, too? Interesting sharing the workload of a screenplay? a novel?

Me too. I’ve got a few already in-process and am looking for a second set of eyes.

Mind answering a few questions for me?

(thanks to VSL)

Griffin Technology and Domino Magazine have a deal going right now to get 20% off everything at the Griffin online store…that includes the Evolve! That means an Evolve is just $239 (and I’m pretty sure that shipping is free!)

Just type in “domino” when you check out.

i know, i know…it’s a total sales pitch. but, hey, someone has to pay the bills.

My blog has a spam filter that nabs all kinds of comments for everything I’d rather my viewers not have to experience. I go through what it captures every once in a while and, like taking out the garbage, it gets deleted. This morning, however, I found a bit that made me laugh…

Top 10 Viagra slogans:
10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up!
9. Viagra, The quicker pecker picker upper.
8. Viagra, Like a rock!
7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.
6. Viagra, Be all that you can be.
5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone.
4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.
3. Viagra, Home of the whopper!
2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life!
1. Viagra, This is your peepee, this is your peepee on drugs.

This weekend was 50/50 for riding. Saturday was a wash, literally, with a whole day of rain. So, I stayed inside and watched nearly a season of Veronica Mars (think Nancy Drew meets the OC with less angst). It’s saccarine, but Kristin Bell is easy on the eyes.

Anywhoo..A coworker of mine went to take his MSF course this weekend. It made me a bit nostalgic for those extremely hot days in June of 2005 when I took mine. Ah, the little loops around the parking area on those 125 and 250cc bikes. I learned how to spin that little Honda Nighthawk around a parking lot and came out of the class with a certificate that, as my buddy Shawn King would say, proved that I could ride around a parking lot avoiding cones.

Since then every so often I make it a point to get out to an empty parking lot and try to improve my skills. Sometimes it’s just practicing tight turning radii, other times its practicing quick stops. Usually I’m out there looking like a newbie for about an hour then I go my happy way.

For yesterday’s session I planned ahead by picking up some low, flat soccer cones. Scott Simmons and I set up a slalom course, a quick turn course and a few other low speed but tough exercises. It wasn’t hot out but I was sweating trying to learn more about turning my behemoth of a bike (630lbs dry weight) on a dime instead of a car-length row of quarters.

A couple of hours into the session, and after laying my bike on it’s side (it’s okay thanks to the built-in tip-over wings) my phone chimed. I had a message.

Evidently, in a fit of anal retentiveness, I managed to add a memo to my calendar exactly a year ago when I purchased the bike. Picking up my phone I read the text out loud…”oh, looks like my manufacturers warranty on the bike has expired.” Oh well, I plan on riding the bike until the wheels fall off anyway…regardless of who might pay to have them put back on.