Motorcycles

So i went got some turns in with Dave T at park city. Ran into Mark Gable and rode with him for a bit. Then i blasted home, got crystal and went down to Provo to meet up with Dave P for lunch. We went to this chinese buffet thing in provo. 6 bux for all you can eat chinese with sushi and some mongolian. It was way fun.

Went to Altiris to pick up my first paycheck. 1 day's pay. it's more than i made at PF Chang's for 2 weeks (not counting tips). Took me forever to get upstairs to find Claudette since i needed a visitor's pass.

Fri nite i went and picked up new handlebars for the triumph, and grip warmers. Went down to dave P's and started putting the new DS3 (daytona speed triple) together, but ran into a snag with the brake lines. Luckily dave had replaced the front brake lines on his s3 and had his originals lying around so he hooked me up. He traded me a brake lever bracket as well so i could mount my remote resivour for my front brake. He whipped me up a custom bracket for the resivour as well

It came out pretty damn amazing. it still needs a pixie hat and some other little tweaks, but it really is a blast to ride. i'm thinkin im going to either lower the forks in the yolks or replace the springs with the stock ones to get a better feeling.

Went for the "superbowl" ride on saturday... with a small detour. Eric, Scott and Scott's buddy Danny showed up at dave's. Scott had some bad gas from Maverick. He took his tank apart to drain it and broke a fuel fitting. Eric being the total stud that he is, he went to Auto Zone and found a compressor fitting and made a fuel fitting out of it with some cutting, some o rings and a lot of tallent.

The ride was nice, but cold. Eric got pulled over for excessive swerving, but no ticket i wish i had those grip warmers installed and maybe an electric vest, but that will be done soon enough. Just as soon as i get back from Detroit.

So i got up this morning and found the dryer repair guy at the house. we have a working dryer once again. woot

but the repair guy was in the driveway, behind brooke, who was behind my car. so i jumped on the bike (all naked, no plastic no mirrors) with the pistols n ammo and blasted down to Jared Bern's to hit up the gun club.

We went up to Holliday gun club and popped off some rounds with his HK 9mm USP, which was badass... then went back to his condo for a beer and to clean his 9mm.

After that it was a quick ride up BCC as a detour home. I love the way the bike rides without the plastics on it! then some work on the site for Dave T. I went and got Crystal and had dinner @ Terry's, and we all chilled and had some beers.

Went back to crystal's and had a chill evening watching movies (son in law and Signs) and then passed out.

I need to get all the plastics back on the bike so i can get it registered... and i need to decide if i'm really gonna s3 my bike so i can sell all the plastics.

so i went yesterday and talked to the proscecutor about my ticket. Plea in Abaeyance is the bomb. i pay my ticket slowly, stay out of trouble, and my insurance company will never know i was busted. yay.

so i went to REI to poke around after mediation and found a Burton Clash 153 for $160. I called Crystal and she came to check it out. She says it doesn't match her gear, and she wants a K2. I promise to dump her if she buys a K2.

Then we went to Salty Peaks (she almost bought a 04 shawn white), Milo's, and Garts. Garts had the K2 she liked, so we checked it out. I thought it was a bit stiff and goofy lookin, but had the same specs as the Clash... and the clashes they had there were like $250. So back we go to REI.

She bought the Clash @ REI, then got a Burton jacket at a screamin deal. A quick jaunt home to make sure her ride bindings would fit on that board and then i was off for home.

When i got home, i realized i was missin a serious chunk of cash. I called Garts Sports and believe it or not, they actually FOUND my cash and HELD it for me! Score one for honest mormons or something.

So i went to Garts today and grabbed my $$$$ between shifts at the chang and dropped off some chicken lettuce wraps as a thank you. Then to Terry's to grab his .45 ACP and his .32 so we could go to the range tomorrow, and then back to work for my first expo shift.

Expo was fun. Weird and short, but fun I look forward to doing it on Fri nites for like 6 hrs. Dave trained his first nite on takeout tonite, i think he did pretty well.

Went out with the canyonchasers after work after a stop at home to pull the nose cap off my bike and see it's true naked beauty. Was supposed to meet crystal but her bro has some sort of infection and needed a hospital run. As of this moment she's still there dealin with it, so i hope all is well.

Now to sort mp3's and go to bed

so i got up late and nothing horrible happened today! first time in a while. Washed the bike, took all the plastic off to see what it'd look like as a speed triple, but couldn't get the nose fairing off. went into work early because they fired some new runner, then 2 hostesses called in sick or quit. So i went in 5 to close, and got a kickass compliment from this girl Jessie who had been in once before. I gave em a beef n broccili and they told Chad they absolutely loved me. They made Dave Mc a trainer tonite too. that is gonna be badass. we're gonna run the show

Came home, got an email about some 1099 work from someone who knows Jason. I'm dealing with the fact that i have no mp3's, so i've been restarting my collection. it's gonna be slow going for a while.

now time to get changed and bounce over to crystal's. Double tomorrow and sun cuz they canned the new runner... but hopefully money for me

ok so i haven't updated this thing in quite a while. the serendipity software updater broke, and as such i haven't even had a working blog. here's the updates i can remember.

-got my first speeding ticket. 91 in a 65. cop wrote it up for that. eric n dawn live near him.
-promotion at pf chang's. i'm now expo/take-out/trainer
-somebody stole around 300 bux from my bedroom
-i have a girlfriend (gasp). her name is Crystal. she's rad.
-blew up my 120 gig ibm deathstar disk with all my music, files, etc on it
-grandma zone is in the hospital for an infection
-brad says he's moving out the 1st of November
-i've had many visitors (joe, mary, katy with joe again, my dad, kevan and evan)

now that i've got the new linux box running and this blog operational again, i'm gonna try to be better about writing in it... cuz reading some of these posts just in the year it's been going, i've already seen a lot of memories i'd like to look back on in 10 years.