As Splicer continues to hemhorrage money

Rode my new motor­cy­cle even far­ther today… all the way to Daly City. I actu­al­ly toyed with the idea of going all the way to Paci­fi­ca, but the way I know to get there involves a real high­way por­tion of Route 1, and I’m not quite com­fort­able enough on the bike (hav­ing rid­den on the streets less than two days) for the free­way. Route 35 was scary enough because the wind was pret­ty high. Get­ting pushed around by cross­winds … Read the rest

Getting in gear

My down­stairs neigh­bors had a par­ty last night. I’m get­ting old over here and what would have been a nice tame par­ty when I was twen­ty turned out to be an insane­ly crowd­ed drunk­en explo­sion. They had drink­ing games set up in the garage, and I have no idea what the rules were. I nev­er could fol­low the rules of a drink­ing game when I was drink­ing, and frankly nev­er cared to. Drink­ing games were invent­ed to be lost, weren’t … Read the rest

Goin’ for a putt

Wow.

No, I mean WOW.

I thought I was crazy. Per­haps I still think I’m crazy. But this is good crazy.

I was ter­ri­fied of this thing, and per­haps I was right to be. I still am. I almost did­n’t do any­thing but take it straight home (well, after bring­ing it by Mud­dy’s to show off, of course.) My friend Rick told me I HAD to ride it, but pru­dence was win­ning. After all, stalling out in the mid­dle of Van Ness … Read the rest