Sunday! At wailing US 30 Drag Strip, where the big ones RUN!

OK, there was no drag strip today and we weren’t on US 30 and the only people that would get this comment would be my Chicago area readers. Well, not all of them, just the gear heads and those that have retained some semblance of memory of Chicago radio,

We did do the breakfast run Sunday and while the turnout wasn’t as promised, we did have 13 show for breakfast and only 1 bike made the ride afterwards and she had no interest in visiting the monument. It turns out that Jane used to live in Pecos and didn’t need to see the monument.

Jane is a heck of a rider. We did the ride to Pecos at an average of 20 over and she was right there the entire time. I slowly started increasing my speed when I noticed her riding my ass from the start. Communications were difficult, but texting turned out to be the answer. Jane is deaf.

30 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are Actually True. #12 Makes You Think.

1. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.

2. Betty White is older than sliced bread.

3. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun.

4. The lighter was invented before the match.

5. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.

6. France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.

7. Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.

8. If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chancethat 2 of them have the same birthday.

9. It’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.

10. The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.

11. North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.

12. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.

13. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

14. National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.

15. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. (This is the one that caused this entire posting just so I can make fun of the Cubs and direct it to Archie and Cathie.)

16. The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.

17. A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.

18. If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn’t show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.

19. If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.

20. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.

21. A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.

22. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.

23. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.

24. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.

26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.

27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.

28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.

29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.

30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.

Dinner Guests

We had people over for the first time in 2 years. Last night Rick and Janet came over for dinner and we had a blast. The evening ended far too soon. It was a simple Dutch meal and Nina outdid herself. Everything was perfect and they left with a stick of banket to enjoy at home.

NRC next week for 3 days.

  • Let’s see, I just returned from picking my bike up from it’s 20,000 mile service and next week I am taking the New Rider’s Course at the dealership. It seems that to teach the course, I have to take the course, twice.
  • Once at the dealership and then again while learning how to teach the course. As you may have guessed, the course is approved by the government, out of California even. That makes it even more special.
  • I’m guessing that this will be the last year that my instructor will be teaching the class. From what he’s been telling me, he doesn’t want to go through the recertification process again.
  • Another instructor wishes to cut down on the classes that he’s teaching so he can race more before he gets too old.

Romero

  • Well, Romero is asking for a bond reduction again.
  • Once again I will be in court to protest his release, reduction of bond, and any other desire he is looking for.
  • September 21 @ 1:30.
  • He is a flight risk and I feel he’s a threat to my family and employees if he’s released.
  • I will be at each and every bond hearing and each and every court appearance until this case has be adjudicated.
  • I may call his attorney and tell her that I will not be swayed in seeing justice to the end for this puke.