Well I have the first ATV loaded on my trailer, ready to go to SF for repairs. I’ll load and bring the other one the next day. They haven’t run in over a year because of the dry conditions and the resulting restrictions.
We hope to take them to Ouray or Moab this summer for some serious off-roading. I recently found a website that lists the most dangerous roads in the world by country. In the USA it’s amazing the number of the listed roads that Nina and I have traversed. I’m also amazed at the high number of those roads that are in Colorado. The website is dangerousroads.org if you wish to peruse it.
The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.
IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”.
Boat Owner: “Well, there’s Clarence, my deckhand, he’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board. Then there’s the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweiser’s every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally”.
IRS AUDITOR: “That’s the guy I want to talk to – the mentally challenged one”.
Boat Owner: “That would be me. What would you want to know”?
Strange thing that The Glen Blog has very little actual Glen news. Well, today I’ll actually post some shit about me. Since I write about what happens with the family when I’m around to see it, I seldom think about my stuff.
I am now a member of the state tourism board as the representative from San Miguel County and the City of Las Vegas. I will be part of the Northeast NM group of counties.
This is a serious group and I will be dealing with a much larger advertising budget than I’ve ever dreamed of playing with and it is an ever growing pool of money. Last year’s budget was $300K and next year’s budget will be $700K. That’s a butt-load of budget for some of the most unpopulated counties in the state.
I’m really loving my new toy. I can see me putting on some very big milage numbers on this bike during the summer months. (Just so there’s no mistake, when I say bike I mean motorcycle, not a bicycle. Motorcycles belong on the road, bicycles belong on the sidewalks.)
So far I’ve done over 1500 miles and I think that’s not bad in the month and a half I’ve had it. I’ve embraced the Harley-Davidson lifestyle. I’m a member of H.O.G. or the Harley Owner’s Group as the initials represent. I’ve done one ride so far and Nina and I are going to another ride next weekend to Amarillo Texas.
We’re going to be tourists in Texas for 2 days. There’ll be a great ride getting there and a nice ride home. Dinner will be at the Big Texan, a monstrously huge steak joint that is a pretty famous tourist trap on I-40. The ride is 260 miles each way.
I hope the weatherliar predicts storms. That will ensure great weather and no winds.
Erin and I spent the day together, starting at the Jeep dealer for service and annoyance.
They provide the service, I annoy the sales staff. One I fire on a regular basis, hoping it will stick sometime.
I sit in the sales office, behind the desk. It makes the newer sales people wonder who I am. The older staff just play along and treat me with deference. I had a new saleslady get me coffee and a danish yesterday.
Fitz thought it was funny. He’s the used car sales manager and we were discussing his living situation and didn’t need to be disturbed.
Fitz retires in a year. Another Harley owner. Nice guy. Very religious and pretty funny about it.
Erin had the run of the place. She’s a natural boss and has the sales staff running after her whenever I bring her there. The F & I guy was on the floor playing with her for a bit.
She and I also did Lowe’s and Harley-Davidson. I bought Erin a toy motorcycle and she’s had it jumping everything.
The girls at the H-D dealership fell in love with her. Tiffany let her lead her around by the hand asking her questions. Tiffany told Nina later that day how much she loved Erin.
Nina bought sunglasses at H-D yesterday.
I think ML had a tiny stroke yesterday. We’re not taking her to the hospital, they’d just check her in and “watch” her overnight and send her home. I just simplified the process and watched her myself.
My Thursday meeting was canceled. There’s a battle a’brewing between the city and the Chamber of Commerce and all of us from that meeting want to be present to watch it go down.
Believe it or not, this is all about the marketing group I’m part of, so I’m part of the battle. The CoC lady has no idea where I stand, yet. I’m sure Thursday will make it clear to her.
Today:
It is Wednesday and Erin and I are scheduled for lunch at Burger King and their play land.
Erin and Tori should be here between 7:30 & 8:00. I’ll know that they are here when the garage door slams and shakes the house.
I was invited to a no limit poker game for Thursday evening. I doubt I’ll go. I prefer the betting caps that keep our games sane.
Since it’s still early, today’s section of this posting is a bit brief and I’ll add more to the blog if something worth posting happens.
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII~
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~Aesop~
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers~
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow~
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author unknown~
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton~
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~ Tex Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson~
There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers~
I am a husband, father, grandfather, friend, business owner, traveller, Harley rider, citizen, patriot, gun owner, politically eclectic person of strange personal habits. I support police, trust no politicians, and can argue any side of an argument just to amuse myself. People love me or hate me and those that are in-between don't know me.
