It’s a very annoying word used most often by people attempting to be a bit too intellectual.  Those folks are also very annoying…often times the academic type.  You know - tenured college professors who very much do NOT live in the real world attempting to teach young people how to function in the real world.

Anyway, all that aside, the fucking word “existential” is annoying.

More or less, it’s all color coded and hard to screw up entirely, however I don’t know what condition any of this stuff was in prior to me getting it.  Hey - if you have bike parts, especially for a CB360..post them up on www.anythingforbikes.com.

Three months later, it’s starting to look like something.  I’m going to create a page in this site for the restpration progress.  In the mean time, check out some new sites:

www.bayholes.com - My friend Charlie started this site in response to Ebay’s new policy prohibiting sellers from leaving negative feedback for buyers.  While I clearly have opinions on this - I guess fair is fair and on bayholes, sellers can “list” bad buyers.

www.anythingforbikes.com - another site by myself and my friend Charlie.  This is a free motorcycle classifieds site, focusing on parts.  If you have bike parts or an entire bike to sell - list it there for free.

I can go whenever I want.  Then I felt lucky because the fact of the matter is that I’ve always worked white collar jobs or more recently am self employed and can just leave whenever I want to and usually don’t need to tell anyone where I’m going.

Then I started to ponder what options are for blue collar or hourly workers when they need to take care of things during the day, but can’t because they will lose pay or be fired or have some jerkoff supervisor counting every minute that they take off….and that must be absolutely miserable.

You know, if we’re sick or tired or just have something we would rather be doing, many of use have luxuries that we just take for granted….luxuries that we can’t imagine not having.  Meanwhile, so many others have to go to work ON TIME while they’re sick or their kids are sick or whatever, because it could be a financial disaster for them otherwise.  So, for anyone else out there that has certain freedoms in the workplace - remember how lucky you are, and the next time you’re going to take much needed pay away from someone because they needed to stay home with their sick kid - just ask yourself if you would stay home or go to work.

Here’s what really gets me though - snobby freakin’ people that think I’m not lucky and that I deserve these luxuries because I went to college.  No, that’s a bunch of crap. It’s luck.  I’m lucky that I had parents to pay for most of my college, and even more lucky that I grew up in a social setting where you went to college and that’s that.  Hey - I hated every second of college and if I didn’t have parents and friends driving me to just get through it, I would have quit in a heartbeat and would probably be a nameless “human resource” getting yelled at by a dickhead foreman all day long.

So for anyone out there touting your education and feeling just a little superior to those without - shove it up your ass.  You’re no better than them, probably don’t have half the work ethic that they do….and most of all - remember that it was luck and nothing else that got you there.

My rant is complete….maybe.

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.
Female announcer: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.
Male announcer: Look Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again. There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It’s really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there’s no danger involved.

A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. 
 
Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch.

The woman’s husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.

The little boy says, ‘Dark in here.’
The man says, ‘Yes, it is.’
 Boy: ‘I have a baseball.’
Man: ‘That’s nice’
Boy: ‘Want to buy it?’
Man: ‘No, thanks.’
Boy: ‘My Dad’s outside.’
Man: ‘OK, how much?’
Boy: ‘$250′

In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.

Boy: ‘Dark in here.’
Man: ‘Yes, it is.’
Boy: ‘I have a baseball glove.’
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, ‘How much?’
Boy: ‘$750′
Man: ‘Sold.’

A few days later, the Dad says to the boy, ‘Grab your glove, let’s go outside and have a game of catch.’

The boy says, ‘I can’t, I sold my baseball and my glove.’

The Dad asks, ‘How much did you sell them for?’
Boy: ‘$1,000′

The Dad says, ‘That’s terrible to over charge your friends like that…that is way more than those two things cost. I’m taking you to church, to confession.’

They go to the church and the Dad makes the little boy sit in the confessional booth and closes the door.

The boy says, ‘Dark in here.’
The priest says, ‘Don’t start that shit again; you’re in my closet now.’

Why can’t we Americans just drive normal (ie “environmentally friendly”) sized vehicles?  Why do women think they need a minivan the second they pop out child #2? 

Last night I’m at Wal-Mart waiting to check out…but some guy was squabbling over fifteen cents.  Once that was resolved, he proceeded to the parking lot to get into his full size Lexus SUV.

It’s nuts.  NO ONE needs a minivan or SUV unless they have a very large family. 

Justify it however you want, but in the end it comes down to two things: (1) these things all waste fuel and (2) they make it completely unsafe for people that drive normal cars.

I haven’t been on a bike since riding a friend’s dirtbike in high school, but I’m happy to say I started it up and went for a ride and all was good.  More importantly, I get it now.  It was a great feeling and all I want to do now is go riding.