notes of interest this week

Hmm. where to begin.

So much of it happened on the same day.

Monday: I tried to pay a traffic ticket at the courthouse; one week after getting the ticket. They asked me to come back and pay later as my ticket had not be processed yet and were unable to accept my payment at that time... despite at least 3 places on my copy of the ticket urging me,the recipient, to address the matter promptly. sigh.
- also saw an old 'Elvis' at Roanoke Electric Zupply.

(This is one of the results from Google Image Searching for 'Promptly.' Get to the search engine... yah!)

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday : it rained and i worked.

Friday: The sun came out to play. Again at Roanoke Electric Zupply, I saw a 3 legged cat and the same old Elvis. (no, he doesn't work there. he was a customer.) Elvis sighting twice in the same week? Well, it was also Michael Jackson's 50th birthday. ( I am old enough to have seen the MTV world premier of 'Thriller' video.)

Not the same cat, but you get the idea. it's kind of like.. something's not quite right. where's the fourth leg? -- if only I could have found an image of Michael Jackson holding a 3 legged cat standing next to Elvis.

Saturday: i worked and replaced my first ballast in an overhead light fixture... without shocking myself or falling of the ladder ;-)

My own overdue poetry

I wrote this poem in May 2007, shortly after I purchased my Gary Fisher Triton Fix-gear bike. At the time, the Triton became my 5th bike.


N + 1
can you really have too many

N + 1
whose fault is it really

N + 1
when does it become an obsession

N + 1
or is it just your pursuit of passion

N + 1
road, mountain, townie, just to name a few

N + 1
each one fufilling dreams unto me or you

- dave

I'm currently up to 6 different types of bikes with 2 duplicates for a total of 8. (this doesn't count the 2 projects waiting to be finished some day.)

Poetry from Ted

Very overdue posting.. from May / June 2007

sometimes during a hard work-day, I sit out back to take a break. when it rains and I've driven my truck to work, I'll sit inside and rest my eyes. coming back in from such a break one day in summer of 2007, Ted handed me a scratch piece of paper with the following hyku, composed by Ted.

The quiet rain drops
On the red roof of my truck
Calm my tortured soul

- Ted

quick check in

Still a Forest Leprechaun but using more of my El Gato skills of late.

been moving pretty quick of late with lots of August fun to keep me busy.
must be in other room now! in the most cat like way :-)

Even squeezed in a trip up to Madison and Waterloo Wisconsin to see Trek's latest and greatest.

Aside from carbon mountain bike wheels and the redesigned 7.6FX..
I'd say right up there was the Trek Adult Trike being jumped over the BMX table ramp!