Having arrived at the Gates of Heaven, Barack Obama meets a man with a beard. ‘Are you Mohammed?’ he asks.
‘No my son, I am St. Peter; Mohammed is higher up.’ Peter then points to a ladder that rises into the clouds.

Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than St. Peter, Obama climbs the ladder in great strides, climbs up through the clouds and comes into a room where he meets another bearded man.

He asks again, ‘Are you Mohammed?’
‘Why no,’ he answers, ‘I am Moses; Mohammed is higher still.’

Exhausted, but with a heart full of joy he climbs the ladder yet again.
He discovers a larger room where he meets an angelic looking man with a beard. Full of hope, he asks again,
‘Are you Mohammed?’
‘No, I am Jesus Christ; you will find Mohammed higher up.’

Mohammed higher than Jesus! Man, oh man! Obama can hardly contain his delight and climbs and climbs ever higher.

Once again, he reaches an even larger room where he meets this truly magnificent looking man with a silver white beard and once again repeats his question:

‘Are you Mohammed?’ he gasps as he is by now, totally out of breath from all his climbing. ‘No, my son, I am Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega, but you look exhausted, would you like a cup of coffee?’

Obama says, ‘Yes please!’ As God looks behind him, he claps his hands and yells out: “Yo, Mohammed, two coffees!”

https://youtu.be/H_mAAQO3UdE

• Well, I didn’t make my 10,000 mile goal by today. It could have been done if I was willing to ride in crappy weather, but I wasn’t.
• Erin spent the night here last night. She sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor next to Nina. Usually I have to walk around a large dog in the mornings when I wake up, but this morning Whiskey was sleeping next to Erin. Erin is dog people and Whiskey loves her.
• Work started again on the septic system only to stop because the new tanks can’t be delivered until Tuesday of next week. It turns out that the depth of the ground where the new tanks are going is  actually pretty close to what is needed and there will be very little breaking of bedrock on this job.
• Last week the Harley dealership had a bag sale. 19% off on all shit you could stuff in the bag. Since I was there I bought a new taillight for the bike. It’s a LED light that flashes in a pattern prior to staying on and they are designed to increase my visibility when breaking. It has several programmable patterns, a couple of which resemble cop car bar lights. I’m going to install it today or tomorrow. I saved $50 buy getting it last Saturday during the sale.
• Ted Cruz for president? I hope not, he’s a vile hate filled little man, but I think it’s funny that now the extreme right has someone that wasn’t born in this country running for president. I guess it’s alright for the right to do this but the left gets shit. Let the games begin!
• The Old Fartz had an email pissing contest over an email this weekend. Sad when one person decides to take a private email public to provoke an attack on the other for speaking his mind. It may split the group, but both groups would have good people in it.
• Erin bounces around between me and Nina on her weekly visits. Last week she would have nothing to do with me and this week it’s all about me. We played a game and cuddled and talked with me yesterday. Her mind is always active and she’s a sponge that never forgets.
• Peace everyone!

Plans change due to many things. We did not go all he way to 104 today due to the winy conditions on 60. We just did about 250 miles and while windy, it was nice to be out and about with Nina on the bike.

I decided to check my milage and I was surprised that we hit 43 m.p.g on the trip, even with the wind.

• Meetings planned and cancelled without telling anyone of changes.
• Raise given and questioned to the point that I regret the gesture. Never gonna happen again.
• Work being done and it turns out for naught.
• Where’s my gun?