An Old Friend Revisited

Man it's been a long ass time since I wrote a blog (that one on the 10th of this month didn't count). I've been writing all of my blogs on "Myspace" lately. As a matter of fact I'll probably post about this blog on there also. Oh by the way, by an "old friend" I mean this site. This is, the original "blogspot" for me. My first post was here and hopefully my last post (whenever that may be) will be here. I like this site. It's simple and to the point. I don't feel I have to leave all of my "friends" a comment. If you haven't noticed yet, this post is going to more of a "rant" of different things that have been goings on since I last posted anything anywhere. And as a caution there will probably be a lot of "quotation" marks, I have a bad habit of doing that. Sorry.

So where did we leave off? Oh yeah the SHO. Well that car was nicely put back together by my brother and myself and it never caught fire (justin), thank goodness. Since that fiasco though I have added some things to it (read: threw away hard earned cash into the money pit that is my car!), things that I probably shouldn't have done. Oh well. I added a new suspension to the car which makes it handle a lot better when I speed through turns! Bad part was that one of the struts (it's a shock absorber sort of for those wondering what a strut is) was diffective from the manufacturer. Good thing is they're replacing it. Well seing as a had a car that was running and really I had no money to spend, and being the genius that I am, I decided to spend more money and take it apart!!! I mean seriously!!!! Sometimes I think I just need to be smacked around a bit and made to come back to reality!!! So now just over 300 bucks later the car has been sitting at my school for about a week in pieces. Why you ask? Well I thought to myself, "summers just around the corner and man would some A/C be nice". Problem is on a 16 year old car some things are practically welded together that shouldn't be, and after struggling for 2 days trying to remove an A/C hose without any luck, I came to my senses (with the help of one of my teachers). I'm returning the parts that I purchased and I'm going to half ass the A/C job on the car. It should work. For how long? That's another story. So hopefully by next week I'll have the SHO up and running and hopefully I'll leave it put together for a while.

I think the real reason I've had no problem leaving the car in pieces for the time being and the same reason I should have posted something a while ago, is my new Bike. That's right buddies, I got me a new bike!! It's a 2006 Harley-Davidson Street Bob, incase any of you were wondering. I've been meaning to post something regarding my bike for a while now, but I really wanted to include a picture of it (oh well), maybe next time. For those of you whom I haven't expressed this to, I love riding my bike, and I'm very happy that I have another one. The sales guy at the dealer made me realize that I'm a lucky guy. "Most people work their whole lives for this day" he said. He's right. But I also think it's choices ones make. Some people my age would rather have a nice car, but not me, I love my bike. Albeit I'm a little more paranoid now of where I leave it, and how I leave it (I carry a 20lb chain with me most places i go). Incase you don't know, my previous Harley, which I loved was stolen. Ah material things, no matter how much we say they don't matter, we lie to ourselves just that much. Not too much, but it does sting a bit.

As a side note, the coffee that I'm drinking sucks. It's been a while since I've made my own coffee. I spoiled myself with Starbucks.

Even though that was a side note it kind of leads to my next topic. And if you're still reading I'm impressed I would have probably stopped a while ago. So the topic at hand, Dinero. Money. A friend touched on this subject in his own Blog. It's hard man, when you don't have enough of it. I mean there's a difference between wanting a lot and having enough. After about 4 or 5 years of moving up as far as work is concerned, this year is the first year I've had to deal with having a lot less of it. Actually I'm probably at a point where I don't have enough. It's just kicking in now though. It took 6 months since I left my last job, but yup, it's hear again, the great feeling of being poor. The one good thing about being poor is that you appreciate everything a lot more, and as far as I'm concerned being poor made me the person that I am today. So to be able to revist this time in my life (hopefully it's a short visit) is kind of good, sobering I'd say. Sometimes we all need a good kick in the head to remind us of what our original views of life were. My head is starting to hurt from the kicking though! I think it's time to get back on track. To all my poor friends out there, all it takes is you. Believe in yourself, make the hard choices, sacrifice, you'll be alright, I know I will.

If you're still here reading this. There's a million things floating around in my head (maybe some of the kicking jarred it loose), but I can't keep my eyes open much longer, regardless of all the bad coffee I drink. I'll post more often now I hope. And if no one reads this at least it gives me something to do. Take care and I'll be back to speak more of what's in my brain.