• I’m finally feeling my days correctly.
• I just finished the newsletter for February and will send it out on Wednesday of next week. It’s a good thing that I am unable to sleep in the mornings, it gives me time to play with this before anyone’s awake to annoy me.
• I’d love to show the newsletter to you but it’s all top secret, unless you’re a SDC-HOG member or you stop by the dealership and see a paper copy on our chapter table or someone else forwards their copy to you or you mail me $5.
• Picked up a couch that we planned on putting upstairs, but Nina decided that she didn’t want it anymore, so Andy and Debra got it. Tori, before you get your bra in a knot, it was Levy’s couch. I know how you hate him and anything associated with him.
• Nice weather today, except for that God awful freaking wind. Snow is melting nicely and I plan to grade the lot today while it’s wet and sloppy.
• The tractor is running great, unless you’re Joe, then it’s running like shit. Joe gets it muddy.
• Nina cut ML’s hair yesterday.  It’s short and now she looks like her brother, Dead Ted.
• Yesterday, Nina and I did Olive Garden for dinner. It was a nice evening out, if you consider eating dinner at 5:00 an evening. Yes, we eat early and love beating the hoards of people waiting in line to get seated. OG doesn’t accept reservations, so you wait if you’re there late.
• Afterwards we stopped at HD to see if we could test-drive a new bike 3 minutes before closing. They said only if I bought it for cash before I took it out. We took that as a no.

Not everyone likes me . . . . but not everyone matters.

 So Tori agreed to let Belle pick up Erin the evening before she was supposed to leave us and while her logic is sound, it still annoys me. She has no consideration to what this did to me! By allowing Belle early access to Erin, Tori screwed up my internal clock and now I have a Saturday feeling on a Friday.  I hate this.

ML is on a new drug that is supposed to suppress her outbursts and make her a vegetable (my wishes, not fact), but it seems to have had an opposite effect on her. She’s more chatty and now half my time spent online is looking up shit for her, things that she doesn’t understand or remember from the books she’s reading. Yesterday I looked up the name of some damned column in a square in France only to find that the column was named after the stupid square. I wish I could administer the drugs for her, she’d get them all at once.

I’m thinking about getting an apartment in town and having her pay for it. It would be my sanctuary.

Tori finally got her health insurance card. It appears she picked the one company in the state that has the worst customer service. I’m betting that they’ll dump her after a few phone calls. She’s not very polite when talking on the phone with companies that annoy her.

Well, they weatherliars got one right. Even a blind man with a gun will hit something if the trigger is pulled often enough. Morons. We have snow on the ground. I’m guessing that we got about 6 inches, enough that I hooked up my snowplow to the Jeep. Of course the snow didn’t last as long was the weatherliars predicted, but we did get snow.

Our congress is now in session. I will be there sometime next month for Bike Day at the legislature. I am guessing that there will be over 300 bikes riding there from the dealership. Bikers from all over the state are meeting at SF Harley-Davidson and from there we will lead them to the state house to let them know our feelings on new laws affecting bikers. One of the laws is a helmet law that offers lower licensing fees if you agree to wear a helmet. $30 or $40 for wearing a helmet or $600 for not wearing a helmet. Since I wear a helmet all the time, I’m on the fence on this. The higher rate will help pay for the added costs of bikers that have accidents without a helmet on.

My new business cards:

Have a great day.

We have snow. We have cold. We have treacherous driving conditions. I’m pretty sure we’ll have accidents on the interstate today.

Your Phone Will Figure Out Where You Live, Work, And Frequently Visit And Be Prepared To Share That With Anyone. Go To Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services And Look At Frequent Locations. Spooky!

http://youtu.be/intua_p4kE0

I know what you’re thinking, “Another great title by Glen.” I couldn’t resist. Here’s some pictures of the work being done to put us legal so we can place this business on the market.

Windows vs Ford For all of us who feel only the deepest love  and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives,  read on :- At a recent computer expo .

(COMDEX),Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

“If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, Ford issued a press release stating:

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash………twice a day.

2.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3… Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the ro ad, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4…. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5….. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive – but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6…… The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light.

7……. The airbag system would ask,”Are you sure?” before deploying.

8…….. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9……… Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10………. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.

PS – I’d like to add that when all else fails, you could call “customer service” in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!

• Rode to SF for a meeting on the HOG chapter. Left here at 50° and no wind to cross the pass to wind and a 10° drop in temperature. Glad I dressed for it.
• Great meeting, but holy shit was it long! Two and a half hours! Joel said this would be the longest meeting of our monthly meetings.
• I redid the newsletter completely. Found some online templates and grabbed one that I thought would work and it seems to be a good choice.
• It took a few hours, but I think it’s worth it. Once finished, I may upload it here in case you want to see it.
• Erin will be spending one night a week with us it seems. Not sure why. Oh well, I like having her here, she’s my buddy.
• I got a new MacBook Pro to replace my MacBook Air. They make the new pros lighter and thinner than my last one and the display is killer!
• The Air was starting to lose connectivity in the USB plugs and would cause problems when doing downloads from cameras and the iDevices I have. I’ll have it fixed and keep it for travel and as a backup.
• This new one is FAST! I got a stocker with 0 upgrades and it blows my Air away with the speed. Four years makes a lot of difference in performance.
• Peace!