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let me sing you my drunk song

This one is probably going to be a short one, much like last weeks work week. And next weeks too!

Really the big thing right now is just a shout out to motorcycles. Went out on the bike today and rode up to Mora MN which is a fairly small town about 70-80 miles north of me. Got together with a buddy for a late lunch which was pretty fantastic. Then it was back on the bike and a trip over to St. Cloud (also known as white cloud sometimes…) then back to the cities. At the end of the day it was a roughly 220 mile ride of “excellent” although the bike is starting to act up just a touch. Good thing I was planning on taking it into the shop this month anyway and getting some routine stuff taken care of. Of course there is always the hope that they don’t find anything serious.

Tomorrow I am headed out to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival which is always a good time. It will be interesting to see how much stuff there I remember etc considering I used to work there… 15 years or so ago. Have to wonder just how much it has changed. Still I am sure it will be a good time. The only downside is that we are apparently going to go quite early, like arrival by 9 am. Which means laving here at like 8. Which means early to bed on a holiday weekend. Still, sure it will be fun if a bit strange to remember.

Speaking of holiday weekends, its damn nice to have a 4 day weekend right now.

Other then that… nothing really fit to print at the moment.

I dunno I was watching her lips

Thank god for Fridays. Its actually a bright beautiful sunny Friday morning here for a change and its really pleasant. I don’t entirely remember the last time we had such a nice start to the weekend weather wise and unlike, say, the east coast this weekend we don’t have predictions of rain yet. So here I am sitting with my balcony door wide open and loving the nice little breeze

Its been actually a fairly quiet week which was a nice change of pace also. Managed to win at Trivia on Monday by a mere 1 point in the final round narrowly avoiding overtime which was fantastic. Then on Tuesday it was back to the gym and some needed relaxing. Seems that there is never quite enough relaxing in life.

Yesterday I managed to get the best massage I have had in years. It was a birthday gift that I just finally got around to using and damn was it nice. Thinking that, particularly since I am trying to go to the gym more often, I might try and go get one on a monthly or bimonthly basis actually. I feel better today and slept better last night then I have in months if not longer. So woohoo for that.

Speaking of the gym, I am doing a decent job of getting there at least a few times a week again. Lifting, cardio, swimming etc. It feels good to be getting back to being physically active more often and while the results aren’t really evident yet, they are beginning to be felt by me which is nice. I am re-learning to love sore muscles. Thats a good thing, I swear to god. Plus its a much better way of working off stress then some of the other methods I have used in the past. Part and parcel of all of that is a healthier diet which is a good thing too. If this continues I am going to be ripped! Or something anyway.

On Tuesday night I watched this documentary which was really interesting to me. I knew that the Mormon church had donated tons of money to the campaign for Prop 8 (which I disagree with anyway) but I didn’t realize some of the other things like Utah having a suicide rate near that of third world countries, or that they had campaigned for this same thing (and in the same way) back in the 90s in Hawaii. I also knew ahead of time that homosexuality was a problem for Mormons but I didn’t realize just how big of a problem it is in their religion. Apparently it also dooms others to their version of hell. Of course their version of heaven sounds fairly fucked up and almost like Christianity mixed with Scientology to me but thats neither here nor there. Anyway it was just interesting and is making me wonder just how tax exempt the Mormon church should be. I am sure they wouldn’t like to know that however…

I also managed to score two tickets to this years Devils-Wild game in December. Finally getting to see not one but both of my favorite hockey teams live and in person. Yes please! Also spent a bunch of money at Amazon on Friday but whatever it was stuff that needed to get bought… or something anyway. Because I really needed Castelvania: Lords of Shadow. But at least I held off on Deus Ex Human Revolution for a while. If not Battlefield 3.

So as everybody under the son who talks to me knows I have been looking at cars lately. And the more I look at cars the more I am realizing that I don’t like much of anything that has been produced in the last few years. Plus there is this which is pretty accurate. Companies like Toyota aren’t really producing cars anymore they are producing … refrigerators. Or toasters. Or some other appliance that people can’t connect to. My immediate reaction was to blame companies like Toyota and Hyundai and Chrysler and VW. After all they are the ones making these cars. After giving it a bit of thought however its really a lot smarter to blame the consumers. Toyota only makes a line of completely boring unremarkable cars because thats what people want to buy. If people had been buying the Celica they would have kept making them. If people had bought more RX8s Mazda would have continued making them. Instead people apparently want boring cars. The worst part about that though is for people like me who want to have a car that they connect with, that they want to drive. They want a car that fits their personality and is worth it to them. Instead their options are to go used (so a company like Toyota wouldn’t see the money anyway) or to go with some shitbox like a yaris or (in my opinion) a Corolla that they hate driving. And if they go with that shitbox then it just reinforces to Toyota that yes, this is the car that people want! Obviously since it sold. And don’t give me any crap about Toyota’s Scion line. The tC is built on the same damn platform as the Corolla. So I guess I am at a bit of an impasse as to what I will do in terms of buying a car. Not where I want to but I suppose I will figure it out. For right now its just something to think about.

If everything goes well today and I get everything I want/need to do done today by 3 pm (probable thankfully) I will probably go get an oil change about 3 pm in my current car (which I don’t think is a shitbox but it is getting older… she turns 20 next year) and then I will end up with the entire weekend to do as I please. Now THAT would be a fantastic way to start this weekend. the idea of having it free to go riding is just too nice.

And you’ll be happy and I’ll be forsakin’ thee.

Well back from a nice long weekend in Vegas. Never did win big unfortunately but it was still a great time overall. Spent a lot of time by the pool just relaxing and reading, did a bit of gambling and didn’t really win but it will still a good time. Also got to see O, Mystere and Zumanity which was all fun. O was probably my least favorite but they could only do so much with the set I suppose. Mystere had the best acrobatics and was overall just fun. Zumanity… well its 18+ for a reason and a lot of fun if you are into that sort of thing. We both enjoyed the hell out of the shows anyway. It was definitely a shame to have to come back to the real world but then again I guess thats just a part of life. The only part I really didn’t enjoy was how dry my sinuses got. Still… steamrooms help.

Since I came back its been a matter of just working. Not real happy about it but thems the breaks kiddo, as my dad used to say. While I was working yesterday I spent some time thinking about areas that interest me and came up with a few items of interest:

• Law
• Politics
• Beer
• International affairs
• traveling.

Among other things of course. But thats whats got me interested right now. Not sure how I could combine those into a job or even just use one or two in a job but I am certainly open to suggestions. The new plan of action for me really is to try and figure out what I want to do (roughly) and then work to get there rather then trying to work towards something but not being sure what exactly I want to end up as. All I really know is that I am stagnating at my current position and would like to move to something new that will interest me again.

I think I mentioned previously that I am working out again, which is going well if a bit intermittent. I am trying to get to the gym 3-5 days a week depending on what else I have going on. Mostly elliptical and swimming but I think its time I start lifting to some extent again. We’ll see how that goes I suppose, all I really know for sure is that its time to fight the entropy of my body at the moment get myself back into a more “fighting shape.” I am also debating sending an email to my old instructor of the martial arts. Not sure that I want to start doing martial arts again but at the very least I feel that I should thank him for some of the values he managed to instill in me when I was a willful young kid. As opposed to now when I am no longer a young kid.

Aside from all of that its mostly just getting back into the swing of things as much as possible and its not proving real easy. As I said to the lady Tuesday morning by the pool “Its not real appealing to go back to the ‘real world’ is it?” and frankly its not. But its where we belong. I have started writing a bit again which helps and I am also in the midst of planning another trip or two out to somewhere. Maybe another DC/Delaware trip, probably another trip to Florida (we like it there I guess) as well. It is nice to see that things are going very well for us though. As opposed to most of my relationships that have sort of fizzled in a year or so. Its hard to believe that I have been seeing her for almost two years actually.

Oh, I almost forgot, my 10 year high school reunion was not to long ago which threw me for a loop a little bit. I didn’t attend, for one thing it was just people getting together at a bar and for another… I just am not that interested in reliving that particular part of my life I suppose. But its weird to say that its been that long. I rather imagine that 20 and 30 will actually be less surprising. Just a feeling though.

And for my other ongoing situation… the car. Well I am looking. I am somewhat disappointed that my Dad didn’t seem that interested in selling me his car as I would have loved to own it. Maybe he will change his mind I don’t know but I imagine that I really should be looking more actively then I am. Then again I have only driven less then 4,000 miles in my car this year. And the weather has been so atrocious that I haven’t been riding much this year either. Its screwball to say the least.

Also, crazy to find the old X-men cartoons on netflix instant. Absolutely blows me away me to see those again and surprised at how much of them I remember. Also surprised at how many seasons they had of it. Apparently I only caught the first season or two.

And thats all thats fit to print but I have to ask: Do you?