Okay folks, I’ve been messing around with trying to get images onto the site ever since I switched to WordPress. Guess what? You can obviously see that I’ve figured it out, thanks in part to Mr Whitfield and his immense intellect. He also showed me how to bypass some additional lines of code, but the average reader won’t give a crap about that.

So now Kate, I’ll be able to get photos back up in there.

Thanks, Dave.

In the meantime, please to enjoy this photo of celestial devil horns as seen behind a church. I’d credit the original photographer, but I couldn’t find out who took the photo…

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This week I’m working out at Microsoft with Dean doing tuneups on MS employee’s”s’s bikes. Last night Dean sends me a txt msg saying something like, “Get ready for a bonkers week and bring your iPod.” By Dean’s own admission, he has a pretty mainstream selection of tunes on his mp3 player, so he asked me (as if he had to, I’m a bit of a music-nazi) to bring something interesting to listen to. I spent an hour or two getting 4gigs loaded onto my iPod so that we could have something for our ears to do while wrenching under a tent in the rain. Which we did. For about 4 hrs until my battery died. At which point Dean plugged his mp3 player in until the battery for his speaker unit died. And then we were on our own.

OH SHIT!

I said to Dean, “Well, we were listening to something decent, so at least THAT’S what will be stuck in my head the rest of the day.”

WRONG!

Pretty soon I was hearing John Denver songs in my head. And shortly thereafter, I was coming up with my own dirty lyrics to his songs. And then I was singing dirty lyrics to John Denver AND Neil Diamond songs. After that, it was Abba.

Where does that shit come from?

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As I learn the ins and outs of WordPress’s”s”s’s's’ss’ protocols, I realize that I must change the controls that are in place concerning the overall look and feel of the site. I left the rules in place that in order to post a comment, you must have your own website and provide the URL. Well… I’ve had 3 different folks post comments to my emails, and I gotta say that the way they have bypassed protocol has been hilarious.

My sister posted, and when I was alerted to it, I noticed (I was puzzled at the time) that her website/URL was aintgotone.com. I’m into music and I play the guitar, so my first reaction was that it was Ain’t Go Tone. Nope. Nanny and a website? Ain’t Got One. Nice. Good going…

Then tonight I notice a comment by a dude whose URL is snotlocker.com. I immediately recognized all other pieces of the puzzle, so I let that comment through, but…this shit is too inspectro-intensive (new term I just made up), so I just loosened the rules a bit. We’ll see how that goes.

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I posted a couple days ago about playing old school video games with Whitfield and his kids. Dave and I were letting Alex and Tyson play Gauntlet when the funniest thing happened. The kids are playing and Gauntlet is a game where your character can throw projectiles at the enemy characters, so at one point Tyson is making his character run at a bad guy and for some reason the bad guy ran the other direction. Tyson (who is 3 or so) yells without taking his eyes from the TV, “Yeah, that guy didn’t want none of Tyson!”

Are you fukn kidding me, did he just say that?

Actually, that’s not entirely out of character. One time at Thanksgiving dinner, we were talking about what time of day each of us was born. Dave got a freaky look in his eye and said, “I know EXACTLY what time I was born!” Anna (his wife) then looked at him all exasperated, and said, “I guarantee you weren’t born at Go Time.”

So you see, like father, like son.

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Hey folks,

I have a friend who can’t spell for shit. He actually CAN spell, but his brain is always running at a billion miles an hour and I think he gets ahead of himself and the spelling errors pop up from time to time. Like any time he spells.

So look to the right of this post where you’ll find a link to Pimbasworld. Click that and then in the upper left, you’ll find a link back to my site. Hey, he’s my friend and I’m his, so we have links to each other’s sites. So you let the mouse hover over the link to my site, and a little word box pops up that says “be careful what you say around him”.

Notice how the word ‘careful’ is spelled wrong? Classic. Sorry Dave, I hadn’t kicked anybody in the nuts in a while, and it was just time…

PS, what’s a Terriorist? I noticed a mention about that on your site. Is that a small dog that goes around bombing shit?

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I was born at just the right time.  I was at the perfect age when video games first came out that I was completely enthralled by them and I’ve been hooked ever since.  I also have been able to watch them grow and become more complex and quite realistic over the years.  However, as with anything, bells and whistles are fine at first, but if you don’t have engaging content then you’re finished.  Nowadays it seems that the visuals are the first and foremost thing that games are being measured by, with actual content and gameplay being pushed into the background.  That point was driven home a few days ago when I forgot my phone at home and was checking my voicemail from the phone at the bike shop.

I got a call from Whitfield.  He left a voicemail that cracked me up and brought a smile to my face.  It seems that his kids, age 3 and 6, only want to play the game(s) that I left over at his pad last week.  No, they aren’t Deathslayer 6 or Super Gnarlball 3D:Championship Edition (fictitious titles, by the way).  They were compilation discs with Pacman and Gauntlet and Pole Position and a whole bunch of games
that were released in the early 80s during the infancy of the whole video game phenomenon.  Remember when video games were a quarter to play?  Now Alex and Tyson are forgetting all about Star Wars Lego games and playing Gauntlet!  “Valkyrie needs food badly…”

I love it.

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I’ve switched from writing all my own HTML code to using a service that does it all for me for free.  I now manipulate the look using an extremely simple interface and all is wonderful.

Mostly…

There have been a few casualties.  I had a couple ‘secret’ sites that I’d been piggy-backing onto my main site for a couple other people and now that I’m using this WordPress interface, those sites are no longer available to view by the parties interested.  Melody and Molly, I apologize for having lost those pages.  I don’t think I can add those pages to this site in the same way I’d done it before.  Hmmmm…

Also, I’m still learning the ins and outs of this new interface, so I don’t know how to post images or image galleries yet.  Ideally, I’d have galleries to view that would utilize the same look that you’re seeing now, but it may just be that I have to make new galleries and they may end up having a different theme to them.  Don’t know for sure, just guessing…  The cool thing about using this WordPress protocol though, is that I can log in from any computer on the planet and upload content, so I’m no longer dependant on having to bring my laptop with me someplace to post onto the site.  Theoretically I’ll have more posts, or at least fewer big gaps in posts due to laziness.  THEORETICALLY…  Key word there.

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After two years at Velo Bike Shop on Capitol Hill, I’ve jumped ship and started working for Pedal Dynamics in the Greenwood neighborhood in Seattle.  The two years at Velo were a lot of fun and the folks there are completely wonderful people to hang out with and work with.  However, Pedal Dynamics is a shop that is run by two friends of mine and they have been experiencing growing pains and so I started working with them two weeks ago.  The last two weeks have been hectic as hell, since PD does a lot of events and the shop itself is pretty small.  I’ve worked 6 days a week since starting there and tonight I was there til 1am before heading home and posting this.

Pedal Dynamics has a mobile unit.  Dean (my buddy and the owner of PD) will take the van out to a company’s workplace, set up the mobile shop and work on employee’s bikes for the day or week.  All of this gets set up beforehand and those mobile days are FULL.  Next week is Microsoft and I’m going out there with Dean to crank out 80 tune-ups over the course of the week.  I’ve done that for a day with him before, but this time it’s gonna be the entire week.  Holy crap…

So in preparation, I decided that I needed more tools of my own so that I wouldn’t be fumbling around trying to find Dean’s tools and just getting in his way all the time throughout the week.  I ordered a cool backpack that Park makes which is a toolbox for bike tools and then I thought, “Well hell, I have my own bike tools, but I need to fill this sucker with new tools and make it official!”.  So after work tonight, Dean and I went to Sears and then Home Depot.  $200 later, we were back at the shop and I was filling my new backpack/toolbox with the new tools I’d bought.  Screwdrivers, files, hammers, T-handle metric allen wrenches, zip-ties, electical tape and one COMPLETELY righteous pair of scissors all went into the pack and now I’m ready for Microsoft, but also for any trip I may go on where I bring my bike with me.  I took pictures of the old crappy toolbox and of the new pack in various stages of setup, but I don’t yet know how to get photos onto my site with the new WordPress protocol, so I’ll have to add them later.

Do NOT mess with me now, because I have the right tool to retaliate.  I can file your face off, I can snip any body parts at any time, I can tape your arms to your sides, and I can zip-tie your toes together.  Don’t even think about it…

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Okay, here we are. I’m noticing some weirdness regarding the old site showing up when it should be the new site, but I’ll erase my browser’s cache and maybe that will take care of that.

So the site has a new look. If you’re into that sort of thing, you’ll notice that there are random headers that pop up. And it would seem that I have a new look as well. I bought some new shades and had Rx lenses put in. I got home tonight and immediately took out my contacts and started wearing the glasses. Hmmmm, not so sure about my purchase. I’ve had glasses before and I don’t seem to recall the eyeballs having this much trouble adjusting to them. I’ll give it a day or two, or even a week before I go back and ask them just what the hell is going on. I feel like I’ve been crossing my eyes, staring at the end of my nose or something. But the eyes are a highly adaptable organ, so I’ll have to give it a good, solid real-world test before getting all pissed off and throwing them off of a freeway overpass. Besides, if worse comes to worst, I’ll just throw the lenses off the overpass and get new ones. You can’t tell from the picture, but there are little frames around the lenses themselves. The lens frame comes out of the main frame and I can buy various frames with different sunglass lenses in them, so all is not lost.

Yet…

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I got this from a friend of mine last Friday. I laughed so hard, I almost shit my pants. Come to think of it…how perfect is that?

“So my day started with a late breakfast of two 8″ flapjacks, two eggs (OE), and two sausage links, with a cup o’ joe. Dropped momma at the airport, she was enroute to J-town Regional B-Ball comp, (her flight was subsequently cancelled due to weather, and she won’t be attending now. She should be in rare form tonight…PISSED!). Following a productive morning of work I attended lunch with the co-workers at Buttwrinkles (downtown branch), where I ingested a salad, a basket of p-corn, and a reuben, with a glass of water. Upon returning to my cubicle, my stomach was roiling like the seas during the final scenes of “The Perfect Storm”, major rumbly in my tumbly….So I head to the commode of choice and embark on a whirlwind scat vacation…all in all a ten minute session. After thoroughly wipin’ it up I go to pull up the skivs and notice some brown particulate matter on the taint section of the BVDs. Waitasecond…I didn’t shart my pants on the way in! From whence did the blow-back come? Long-story-short, I had to untie my shoes, remove the underwear, and ditch em in the rubbish pail…NICE! Haven’t had a malfunction like that in a few years. And I still don’t know where it came from, I think it was blow-by, like when the cylinder walls of an engine become worn and scored by grit etc., exhaust goes by the piston and shoots up into the exhaust manifold, resulting in loss of engine compression. I think I shot with such velocity into the bowl that it shot back up through my legs and into my undies???? WTF….You probably think me a nasty fellow, no? Well sirs, you are correct!!”

Oh my…my stomach hurts.

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