Enjoy!

I haven't blogged in quite a while. This past week I was on vacation and did tons of turkey and pumpkin pie stuff, as well as the friends and family in town stuff so I have plenty of material to write a quality post. In a few days time.......


The self-made capp and smokes in this picture are for two special people - one who just had a bday recently and the other who made me laugh my bum off with the jokes e-mail on a friday at 4:30(aka the longest half hour if you're a 9-5 type). A - please stop by for the real thing, and V - this is the best I can do right now about that coffee I owe you.

Oh, I forgot the mineral water. Shoot!

Cigarettes, and carrot juice....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbN_jhkWlU4

Big Dipper

Cigarettes, and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the Cafè Xeno's steps
With a book I haven't started yet,
Watching all the girls walk by...
Could I take you out?
I'll be yours without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

And if the sound of this it frightens you,
We could play it real cool
And act somewhat indifferent

And hey June, why'd you have to come,
Why'd you have to come around, so soon?
I wasn't ready for all this nature
The terrible green green grass
And violent blooms of flowered dresses
And afternoons that make me sleepy

But we could wait awhile
Before we push that dull turnstile
Into the passage

The thousands they have tread
And others sometimes fled
Before the turn came

And we could wait our lives
Before a chance arrives
Before the passage

From the top you can see Monterey
Or think about San Jose
Though I know it`s not that pleasant

hey Jim, Kerouac(The brother of the famous Jack),
Or so he likes to say.
Lucky bastard

He's sitting on the cafe Xeno's steps
With a girl I'm not over yet
Watching all the world go by

"Boy you're looking bad
Did I make you feel that sad?
I'm honestly flattered."

But if she asks me out,
I'll be hers without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

Cigarettes, and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June...

I'm sitting on the Cafè Xeno's steps...
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet.

Really looking forward to the Cracker show this Saturday!
Back in the late 90's, when I was still in high school, I saw them play at the Metro. Have been a fan ever since. That same night, our apartment building on Argyle street burned down. I got back home from the show with my sister at about 1:30 am. An hour later we were awakened by the sound of alarms. We all lived to see another day.

I am fixing my tire!!!!!!!

I've been driving with a slow leaking (left) rear tire for almost 6 months now.
I bought a brand new car when I graduated from college in 2004, and even though I told myself and my dad I would baby it, I really dont pay all that much attention to it. I managed to travel 24000 miles in these 3 years which is well below the average I'd say. Having a new car under warranty helps if you hate going to the mechanic and dealing with the BS quotes and hustling that goes along with it. So far I only needed to change oil and do regular 20000 mile service. But then this tire thing keeps bothering me. Every weekend I abandon my plan to fix it and rather go for a bike ride, and by the time I am back home, you can forget about getting in and out within an hour. So I postpone........over and over again.
I had to borrow a compressor from my boss, use my bicycle pump, drive for blocks with little air until the next gas station only to find out that the air machine is not working or that I don't have enough quarters to get it going. All in all, it's inconvenience but I manage. Until today!
I had to visit a vendor in Elk Grove Village who does teflon coating for the project I am working on. Since I was low on air, I stopped by a gas station looking to air up. Ahead of me in the line for air was this older man with long gray hair and a long gray beard, who seemed very clumsy. His tires were, in my opinion, sufficiently inflated but he decided to check the pressure in all of his tires with the little 2.99 gage and inflate them to the "suggested" kbar-age. I am rather a patient man and despite wanting to get out of there in 2 mins, I found his dropping of the hat every time he bent over, his inability to figure out how to read the gage, running out of air time and having a hard time putting a quarter into the machine very comical. After the 4th quarter a line had formed behind me and I kept laughing, now out loud. When he sat down on the pavement to get a better reach, I knew it was time to move along and look for a different station. I made it to Elk Grove in time but I promised myself that I will fix the damn tire.....this weekend for sure.

Lance Armstrong dating one of the Olsen Twins? WTF???

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=21563

Just when you think cycling doesn't need more bad publicity.....he pulls this off.
Damn, I wish it was finally proven that he doped all those years, rather than this.

Read the comments!!!!!!!!



What is he thinking???

A new cable network??? Yes...no

In my last 2 posts I kinda made fun of the grad students, but to prove that I love making fun of my own kind - the cycling nation, here is a post from a cult blog Bike Snob NYC. If you don't get all the puns or "lampoons" as some like to call them, you just need to have more fixie riding hipster friends.

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/10/bsnyc-tv-putting-bikes-on-air.html