Well, heading out Saturday at 4 AM to beat the heat on the way to Flagstaff. I’ll probably post a ride report up here afterwards. Its going to be a fun trip I think. Ride up to Williams AZ and camp a night with the family, hop a plane Sunday AM to fly to Kevin & Karen’s wedding up in Banff. Get back Tuesday with my niece landing 2 hours behind me, hop on the bike and head on up to the Grand Canyon! Just something to share with all of you. I was surfing the advrider forums and came across this.

From Tombstone: Wyatt: All I ever wanted was to live a normal life. Doc: When will you wake up? You wouldn’t know a normal life if it bit you in the ass. Wyatt: That’s great coming from you. Doc: I played the cards I was dealt, Wyatt. Your problem is you’re always trying to play someone else’s. Allow me to tell you the truth and thus set you free: There is no happiness, Wyatt there is no normal life. There’s only life, that’s all. Just life. The rest is relative. Wyatt: Then what do I do? Doc: First you can grab that black-haired woman and make her your own. Wyatt: All right. Then what? Doc: Run. Take that girl and start running. Run and don’t look back. All your life you been running and looking back and just barely existing and calling it getting by. This time run and don’t look back and call it living. Live every second, live it right up to the hilt. Live, Wyatt - Live for me.

See you all again in 10 days!

So, GP Motorcycles called me Tuesday with an update on my Husqvarna. They said “The valves are cupping, and it will be about $1400 to fix her.” Gah! Granted, I’ve got a lot of miles on this bike. But I’ve had several failures now. Cracked the case due to a defect in the kick starter, Horrible flat spot causing erratic throttle behavior, battery crapping out, bike won’t start, so on and so on. So, for now I’m going to park it and decide if I’m going to do the work myself. On another note, I got to ride the Ducati Hypermotard. OMG! I haven’t smiled that big in a long time. That thing is a fricken blast. Its light, handles like a dirt bike, but has street suspension on it. I can’t even explain how fun this bike is. Its like you’re flying with no fairing, and the fact its so small unless you really look down you can’t even see the bike under you. This will be my next former motorcycle. I figure come spring time I’ll get me one. While the BMW is fun, this is a rush.

We’ve all got demons that haunt our days. Some days they eat parts of your soul, other days you win something back from their grasp. I’ve made my choices and made mistakes that got me to where I am. Only thing I can advise my friends of “Don’t let the Demons get you” Eventually, you may have so many of them, or a few so strong they drown you in your own personal hell.

Don’t let the Demons get you.

So, Gregg turned me onto this today. I think we’re going to have to do it. This has to be one of the most awesome things ever. Take a look.

So, I can’t take credit for finding this. A co-worker showed me this. Its pretty amazing to watch and you’ll need about 50 minutes to do it. But, you’ll come away with a new appreciation for what the human mind can do, and what can be done to the human mind. Basically Darren Brown through a series of sessions attempts to get 4 people to rob a security guard of 100,000 British Pounds. If you’ve got the time, give it a watch.

Here’s a link if you want the bigger resolution version. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7673429342190916780

Someone pointed this video out to me today. Pretty fricken awesome.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Well, this last weekend started out rough. Friday I had a fuel spill on the side of my house. So much gas on the concrete it reflected. Not safe, and not fun to clean up. Then I had to figure out what to do with 15-20 gallons of bad gas. The dump will take it with an appointment, but you can only drop off 5 gallons at a time. What to do? Craigslist to the rescue! Within five minutes of posting ‘Free Old gas’ I had 8 calls about it. I wouldn’t run the gas in my car or my bikes but it runs great in the lawn equipment. That put me behind schedule loading up for Mexico. I should have seen it as a sign. We got down to Puerto Nuevo around 9 PM but had some excellent food. Crashed out at Bill’s place and got up the next morning early. We left Puerto Nuevo and went south to Santo Tomas. Nice little town renowned for its wineries. There’s a campground there that charges $10 per day to park your vehicle. Not a bad deal, they have showers and a really nice swimming pool.
The ride started out with my Husky not wanting to start. Tried to crank with with the electric start, battery finally got low so then I started kicking. It ran ok but as we got further it started running rougher. Stuttering at low speed and backfiring at high revs. It would blow black smoke like a diesel on the top end. This erratic engine problem made it pretty difficult to navigate rough terran as the bike would wheelie then dive in the whoops. About 45 miles into the ride we hit Erindira and filled up with gas. I checked my air filter, made sure I didn’t have anything loose, and it all looked fine. Started the bike up and it ran even worse. I let Bill know that I was gonna bail out to the road and down to San Quintin as it would be easier to retrieve me on the road than down the beach somewhere. I spent the next two hours limping it down Highway 1 to San Quintin, then another hour trying to find La Pinta. Once I got to La Pinta I pulled the bike apart to see if I could get into the carbs. No luck. I was missing a 3mm allen wrench and a 17mm allen wrench. So, I took a nap in the grass for about 4 hours until the chase truck arrived. When the chase truck arrived I started pulling my carbs apart and they were a bit gunky, and one of the jets was nearly plugged. I figured “AHA! This has got to be it!” I put it all back together, no dice. The bike started once, blew black smoke all over the place and died. Bill finally said “You’re missing Margerita Ville! Its done, have a drink!” Had a few drinks, got a shower, and had a decent dinner. Read More »

So, HBO canceled John from Cincinnati. I was just getting into this show and had caught up to one episode before the season finale, then CANCELED! I thought it was an interesting show but I can see how the bad acting by the good surfers, the obscure autistic John character, and the explosive characters would make it hard for general populace to get involved in the show.

At least Flight of the Conchords is still around.