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On a vacation in the drunk tank so they’d say

So i promised an update this weekend and surprise surprise the weekend is here. Plus its a crappy rainy overcast day so that provides further incentive.

So a mighty quick recap of things from the past month or so. Spent the weekend of the 8th out in DC visiting the lady friend who was out there for work. had a grand old time, mostly doing sort of touristy things. We went for a nice walk along the mall, saw the Vietnam, Lincoln, Korean, FDR, and Jefferson memorials, although I only have one picture worth showing right now of those. Not that there weren’t others taken, just never bothered to clean them up or anything. Plus I like that one. Also went to the old brickskeller and a couple of other places. Over all a hell of a trip and one that I don’t regret at all. Didn’t tell anybody that I was going out there really as I didn’t feel like meeting up with anybody, just relaxing and spending time together. Bonus: Picture of a statue of my, rather ugly, ancestor. Accomplished man though.

The rest of the month has been relatively uneventful… there are a few things that I am not ready to talk about yet although I am sure that eventually I will be. Lets just leave it as I learned my lesson with no negative consequences otherwise so overall it was something for the best and come back to it at a later date.

I have been relatively domestic lately, cleaning out the closest (not in some sort of metaphor either) donating clothes I no longer wear, doing some deeper cleaning then normal, updating my wardrobe, etc. I guess its just that time of year where I want to clean up, start fresh and get myself moving into summer.

I have managed to get out on the bike exactly twice so far this year. Normally I would have a few hundred miles under my belt by now, but instead I have right around 130 miles. That said, with $4 gas before the holiday weekend, hell before may 1st, I imagine that I will be using the motorcycle for commuting and such more then in previous years. Unless of course this weather never really changes. For those not in the know, MN has been having pretty unseasonable weather lately. Lots of rain, still snows occasionally, cold overall. Not good for much of anything at the end of the day. I, along with everybody else up here, keeps hoping that the weather will turn nice. But so far, according to weather.com it doesn’t seem that there will be much in the way of a break anytime too soon. Frustrating to say the least.

I am in the beginning phases of planning a trip down to Madison this summer for a long weekend to visit my wayward friend who should be back in the states, to say I have missed him is no understatement. Haven’t figured out the exact when yet but i suspect it will be on the bike (provided that it starts to get above 60 for a high and we can go more then 24 hours without rain of some sort). Would be nice in a lot of ways to hop on the scoot and take a nice 250-300 mile trip with an actual destination for a change, no question about that. I also need to get ahold of my buddy out in Colorado and figure out a trip out there. Or whether I should even think all that much about it might be a better way of describing things. Also trying to figure out at least 1 or 2 more trips with the lady friend. Right now all I really know is that I have the time away from work available but I should start trying to figure that out.

So yes, things with the lady friend are still going quite well, to my and everybody else’s surprise.

Work is still work. I am spending some time looking around to see what else is going on out there in my and other companies. The economy is starting to look better (how many times have I said that before?) so there are more openings around and I am somewhat interested in finding a new challenge as I have been doing this for long enough that there isn’t much new to excite me (or that). We’ll see what happens I suppose.

Currently my main source of entertainment is coming from Sons of Anarchy which netflix recently put on streaming. The first two seasons anyway as the third isn’t on DVD and the 4th starts this year. Its a hell of a show, no question about that and the fact that I ride makes it even more interesting to me. I have met a few 1%s in my day and for the most part they are nice people although I am sure that they don’t have to be. But I have no interest in finding out that side of things.

Otherwise there isn’t a ton going on which I mostly love. Its good for me to be taking some time for myself, get myself in order and ready for whats coming in the future, whatever that may be.

Well, its time for me to start being domestic for the day, laundry, cleaning, probably buying a mothers day present and such as thats something I really need to get on (and thats my reminder to people, love your momma) but I want to leave you with an old favorite.

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