• between working out in the field and having a soon-to-be-fixed crappy and unreliable internet connection, October is proving to be a sporadic and unpredictable month for posts
• Dean and I were on the freeway the other night (last night, in fact). We were in the far left lane when on the right, we both noticed a flash of light. Looking over toward the right lanes, I noticed a line of sparks shooting up into the air, but there was a car in the lane between us and the sparks, so I couldn’t immediately see what was going on. As the car sped up, I saw the source of the lightshow. Holy crap, there was a yellow crotch rocket motorcycle on its side, spinning like a top and moving at almost freeway speed, showering sparks in its wake. I looked back and was only able to get a split-second mental snapshot of the rider, sliding in the same lane, a few yards behind it all. We were ahead of all of it, and kept going because we could see that a number of people had pulled over to help, but holy shit… I feel bad for that guy, he must be in pain still. And the bike? Forget about it…
• Today I worked on a folding bike for a customer. Folding bikes are absolutely useless. The ONLY time (I’ve mentioned it on this site before, but I’m going to again) one is allowed to use a folding bike without being put before a firing squad is if it’s on their boat and they actually sail around the world and need to run errands on exotic islands and shit. That’s IT. But, like recumbents, people do own folding bikes and there’s a certain personality type attached to a folding bike owner. This particular dingdong paid for the work all in $2 bills. WTF!!! It’s one thing to have a couple of them, cuz some places, like WA state ferry terminals, seem to have a lot of them and you get them as change fairly often. But it’s another thing to have a wad of them. This guy? He told us how he just wanted to mess with people and so he ordered $1000 in two-dollar bills just so he could fuck with people. ???!!! A grand in 2s. The guy is as mentally sound as his folding bike is structurally sound, which is to say not very sound at all. His father should have pulled out early…
• MTV2 is having a week-long 20th Anniversary thing about their Headbangers Ball program. Kinda cool to see crappy metal music on that station rather than the crappy emo and indie music that you normally see.
• Indie music sucks. So does emo.
• December is going to be awesome.
• I can’t wait for the new Mastodon album to come out. I know I mentioned that in the previous post, but I just saw something saying that they are going out on tour with Metallica in Europe next summer. WHOA
• I bought a bass last year, and every night I pick it up and try to get better picking with my fingers. It’s a strange thing, switching back and forth between the guitar and the bass.
• I found the section of the Apple store where you can buy refurbished computers. I think I’m going to go that route, because I just can’t get behind the glass trackpad and glossy monitor of the newest iteration of the MacBook Pro.
• I got pressured into joining Facebook. That’s a strange one because of all the high school peeps I’m running into there.
• Did I mention Metallica, Buckethead and Zappa Plays Zappa all in a one month timeframe?
• Have you seen the commercial for Stride gum where the guy gets headbutted in the nuts by a goat? For physical comedy, that one gets me every time. Every single time, I giggle a little bit and my life enriched just a teeny bit…

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