From Scott A.~A Harley Friend~Good Read

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. 5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!
10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.
11. Rather than sending jokes, please… contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.
12. If this message comes around you… more than once… please don’t get irritated… You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

Damn!

They had my new bike at the dealer’s show and conference! And I haven’t even put enough miles on the current bike! We were at the Microsoft Theater in L.A. for the show and the facility holds 7100 people and there were people standing and hugging the walls.  Freaking unbelievable. Great time, great show, good food. Harley-Davidson really knows how to throw a party. Tomorrow is more focused on work, so to speak. David, Wayne, Audrey and Peter are here to work. Kim, her son, Jeff, and myself are here as spectators. I am here under an assumed name, but I’ve already been outed by one of the HD regional reps, who knows me from the store. Oh well, he really doesn’t care. Time for pics!

A PIC FROM ABOVE
DAVID, KIM, & HER SON
AUDREY, THE CAN COLLECTOR
FROM THE LEFT: PETER, WAYNE, JEFF AND DAVID WITH HIS BACK TO THE CAMERA. PETER IS KIM’S HUSBAND, THE BOY’S FATHER AND DAVID’S VERMONT PARTNER.
PETER AND AUDREY
WAYNE & PETER
DAVID, PETER AND JEFF