Monochromatic Outlook

The U.S. Half Marathon is com­ing up soon, and I’m reg­is­tered for it even though I have not by any stretch of the imag­i­na­tion trained enough for it. I have spent a lot of this year let­ting my focus drift away from run­ning, and to date I have run only 82 miles in 2005. At this time in 2004 I had just run the U.S. half and had logged over 240 miles.

How did I get here? By look­ing … Read the rest

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Thank God for small towns in Amer­i­ca where motor­cy­clists can shut up pro­test­ers who are try­ing to dis­rupt a sol­dier’s funer­al because they think that sol­diers are dying because God hates fags.

You got­ta get a score­card to keep track of this stuff, but any­one who heck­les the fam­i­ly of a dead sol­dier deserves to be drowned out by vet­er­ans’ Harleys.

If you think that Amer­i­cans are dying in Iraq because God is pun­ish­ing Amer­i­ca for being lenient with … Read the rest

I took the train to work today, and stayed home this evening.

This makes it the first full day since I got my motor­cy­cle endorse­ment that I have not rid­den. The day after I got my license I bought the Vira­go. Since then, even if it was to go sev­en blocks to the cof­feeshop, I’ve start­ed up one of the bikes and rid­den it some dis­tance every day.

I’m tempt­ed to go out and take one of the bikes for a … Read the rest

Today at my office it’s PIE DAY.

I’m hav­ing blackberry.… Read the rest

Final­ly a day where there was­n’t a ton of fog at the high­er ele­va­tions. Even though it’s a lit­tle bit longer and the last few times I’ve tried I’ve got­ten socked in with fog, I rode Sky­line Boule­vard in to the office today.

I’ve rid­den Sky­line enough that it does­n’t have any real sur­pris­es for me. It does­n’t real­ly qual­i­fy as twisty, but it has some curves that if tak­en at a high enough rate of speed will force a … Read the rest

Thanks to the mir­a­cle of eBay, I now have

• Moto Guzzi base­ball cap
• Moto Guzzi key lanyard
• Moto Guzzi embroi­dered patch
• Moto Guzzi cufflinks

I’m such a geek.… Read the rest

One of the last sin­gle-screen the­atres in the Bay Area has closed.

http://www.renaissancerialto.com/current/PARK.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/19/BAG8REPTJ21.DTL&type=movies

One of the things I real­ly love to do is vis­it the small­er and sin­gle-screen the­atres in the area. It gives me a lot of plea­sure and there’s always some­thing about the the­atres – some have extrav­a­gant dec­o­ra­tions, some have ded­i­cat­ed and knowl­edgable staff, some sim­ply have small-town charm and not much else to offer. But … Read the rest

.…is clean­ing up so that the maid won’t have a messy place to clean.

Of course, I guess I just don’t like clean­ing to begin with.… Read the rest

It’s actu­al­ly cheap­er to have a motor­cy­cle flown to Europe and back than it is to rent a motor­cy­cle in Europe for three weeks. For two weeks it’s about even.

Not that it’s rel­e­vant to the fan­tasies of any­one I know. Just saying. =^)… Read the rest

Well, first they took almost three weeks to resole my steel­toed fire boots. I was promised they’d be back in just over a week. Appar­ent­ly they got backed up. I got a phone call today telling me that the boots had come back with new soles, but that they’d put the wrong soles. Instead of the soles I’d request­ed, they’d put on a sim­i­lar but thick­er and heav­ier lugged sole. That’s two strikes.

The upshot of this is that I … Read the rest