a repression of adultness

Gas Prices! Man o man, I am laughing at you. Fact: the amount of money spent by the Federal Government on Public Transportation is based on revenues from gas taxes. So drive less = less Public Transit Funds. Make sense in a fucking 12 dimensional world where Uthulu's are our Lords and Masters. Fuck, who though this up? Asshat politicians.

Commute! It's been better lately. They installed HUGE speedbumps by the park to slow traffic down. I think people have figured out that you just can't take this shortcut and save time anymore. Very few speeders anymore, on the worst part of my commute. I have also noticed that people seem to be LOOKING AT/for cyclists a bit more. MY TRACKSTANDS IMPRESS EVERYONE. (on that note, if you come to a stop sign first, please go in order, and don't wave me on, you wouldn't do it to someone in a car, now would you?) And what's up with all these squeaky bikes? Spend 50 bucks and get it tuned up. I love coming up in back of other riders and scaring the shit out of them because my chain doesn't sound like a Greatful Dead soundcheck. Just pull into their draft, blow buy 'em and say 'dude, Pedro's'!

Work! It is swell. Not much money (pop's said I should ask for a raise [he's senile, methinks]). But not much hassle. Some pressure, but I pretty much kick ass at what I do, so no worries here. Taught a client about InDesign today. The basic lesson was don't overthink it, and give me the cover in a seperate file. Still the worst part is getting 72 (or 96) dpi RGB images and then having to explain to people that I can't make dogshit into gold without 300 dpi CMYK tifs or psds). dunbasses.

Enough for now, as no one reads this fucking drivel anyway. Looking for Amtrak destinations for a short vacation (I am not going to my folks place) somewhere near CA. UBI bike mechanic school is very expensive, but I may talk to my employeer about paying for part of it (though my job has nothing to do with bikes or mechanicalbike thingys). I dunno just a thought, as I haven't asked for a raise in over a year.

If you read this please tell me to A) STFU, B) GTHO or C)zzzzzzzzzzz

Hola

The weekend went well, Giants beating the crap out of the Dodgers was the best part. They need to start handing out 'Croix de Candlestick" pins to us that sit there. Zito, ftw!

The air here sucks, but the people in Sacramento are getting screwed. It's like Jakarta x Mexico City there.

Started 'We were soldiers once...and young' last night. the only things i have ever read more depressing is "The Gulag Archipelego" and anything by Emile Zola. Then again I have read the gulag many times. it's not a children's story by any means, but if I ever feel bad, i can pick one of the books up, read a bit and then realize that my problem is nothing compared to these souls.

Playing a new scenario in RT3. Yes I play games, every once in a 3-day weekend.

Pippo says hi (he's chococat!)

Fires? we gots fires! dry lightning, spot on. o'er 756 by last count. we'll trade you fer floodwater. sans toxins, etc.

Tomorrows forecast: lots of fires, more smoke, bring pets inside, don't go out unless necessary. i have to be in at 7:15 am PST. fuckoff i ridez my bike.

165 is the pollution level. now i get smoke and cinders besides the usual cow manure spores. yeah, come out to the coast, blah blah blah.

in other exciting news i may NOT be going to the Giants game on the 5th and AM NOT going to Tahoe this weekend.  What are friends for.. for them....white stripes video

asshats

george carlin will live forever in my brain cells.

look out 'higher power' the truth is about to smack you in the head

besides, no one lives at the airport

Yes yes yes, i have gotten a feline as a 'bonus' (i fear) at work. I just call him Pippo (Filippo's nickname is 'Super-Pippo" [Forza Milan!]).. He goes mad when i put on the 'Really Bend it like Beckham' dvd. I could have named hiim Kaká (Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos Leite) but who the hell can pronounce that? Plus shit is nothing to name a cat.

In other news, commuting is going well. I am still on the specialized with canti-brakes. Gas will soon be $7.50 a gallon (if not $10.00) and I don't need insurance. I am thinking of fixing the Honda, but then again I want another bike.

I am supposed to be going to Lake Tahoe in a couple of weeks if only my friends could operate computers for themselves (they manage on cell phones...hmm). Ooh, am going to Giants v Dodgers on July 5th with 29 other people. I have never been to Pac-Bell Park. I am looking forward to seeing the kids area where you can get real 'Barry Bands Type' swipes from some Balco rep. I hear they taste like paste. I shall drink beers. and hope the dodgers kick their asses. n.b. I am an A's fan and the Giants suck! :P

Big debate on whether the qoutes go inside or outside parenthesis this week. Apparently it worked out to how anal you are about language (and my ass has hemmeroids now you fuckers!).

I still can't get back into my flickr account. EAT ME YAHOO! (merge accounts, what a swell idea...FAIL!!!)

It was friggin hot today, asif, 97F (thats 347.97Canadian).

Carls Jr. radio ad: "Remember to keep those windows open, and the air-conditioner on". Crappy food and pollution all in one, who'd have thunk it??? Dive yer suv's to walmart and save...fuck. asshats

or so our masters tend to lead us to believe. MMA fighting instead of a Saturday Night Movie. I was kind of able to watch the hockey game earlier too. another brilliant sport. I want them to fight at curling matches now!

[hyper kitty] Pippo  was good today, though he was bouncing off the walls a bit earlier. He's asleep in my lap right now.

[red hair] My brothers girlfriends boss (i detest that word) had pictures posted online today. She's probably married though. Alack poor Rodrigo....

Right, it was 100F here today, but I rode my bike. then again i have to.

'Bike to Work Day" was lost in a haze of peat dust and bullshit.

I saw no commuters, pussies!

Hello buttercup

Felt Dispatch is on it way to me, but not soon enough.
Freewheel and Fixie are same 39/13, I cannot wait (its a 51cm)

Wheelstands

I am getting better, the people in cars on my commute are getting better too. they know me and don't try to run my ass over anymore. I don't unclip at the 4 way stop, I just take my turn. One day I will be hit by a Coca-Cola truck....

Nerds

Facebook is fun. I was going to go to the Khaaaan in Chicago, but a certain bike got in my way (ITS NOT MY FAULT, THERE WERE LOCUSTS!!!! I SWEAR TO GOD)

I have a fairly easy commute. Two miles each way. On a bicycle (suckers!). Today was much better than some. No one cut me off (I'm sure some FAILED to see me, but the stop signs were good (trackstands impress children and adults alike, he he!). The wind was light, both ways and though I did have to wear arm warmers (misnomer) and a vest shell on the way in, it was 40F when I left at 7:50 am. Light winds on the way home, light traffic too.

I have no cell phone, no pda, no blueberry device, but i still signed up for it. lord knows i hate going to teh pile. i dont hate it, just am so out of the loop.

Well I am posting this blog/rant on twitter (not as if anyone reads this babbling of mine).

Oh yesh, the almost getting run over wasn't really close, I saw her coming in the minisuvvgasguzzler and knew she would turn in front of me, so i slowed down and kept in my lane. she was just about to turn in front of me and then she saw me and slowed down, and then blocked the fucking road in front of me as i went around in back of aforementioned pos. I yelled asshole, just for good measure. (and no, the sun was not in her eyes, she just wasn't paying attention with 2600 pounds of destruction beneath her)