They're heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere

Yesterday my gran and her hubby arrived all safe and sound. Yay.

She was even sweet and brought me some home made scottish short bread (being scottish it was a natural thing for her to do). Some reisling from my favourite canadian vinyard, and some cool photos (more on those later this week.

Then, surprise of all surprises, she brings out a small bottle of Jaeger. "I thought maybe we could do some shots of this later," she said. I was then instructed to place it in the freezer for later.

So tonight, i'll be doing jaeger shots with my gran.


*boggle*

My poor bike is a little tire-d

yesterday, while enjoying the lovely weather on my bike - I noticed my rear tire was slipping a little bit. This morning i remembered to have a look at it (i forgot to check it out when i got home yesterday).

Seems my tires has a bald strip down the middle - much like my head.

So I think i found the tires i want.

My bike needs 120/70 ZR17 in the front and 180/55 ZR17 in the back. The front tire has some life left in it, but i might as well replace them both at the same time.



I was going to do a spring tune up on it, but if i'm having new tires put on, i might as well just have the boyz do it.

Considering I don't think i'm going to buy that repsol this year, I'm thinking it might be time to put in a jet kit, new pipes, filter and such on mine... Time to change the purr into a roar.

Hey Smith / D - any suggestions? you guys are the mod fanatics. Unfortunately, the tobefast.com guys don't deal with my blackbird. :(

Hell's Grannies

The clock is ticking and my impending doom is nigh.

Yes, it's true. My Grandmother will be in town next week.



And so the panic of finishing the little projects i haven't done on my home begins. I still have some shelves to put up in the bathroom, a power problem to solve in my garage, carpets to shampoo... the list goes on.

Actually she's not that bad. She is unintentionally pretty cool. She sent an email to the family last year announcing that she was now married. How often do you hear of 70something year old grans eloping, and then sending the announcement via email? i love it.

Time to ride to work, the weather is far too nice to be driving in a cage.

American Dad...

okay, I was skeptial that Seth McFarlane would be able to repeat his Family Guy magic with his new show - American Dad. OMG, i was completely wrong. It is an excellent parody of the current local (US and DC) politik, paranoia and such.

I wish I had a corset on for my sides had split.


The pilot episode of American Dad was on Adult Swim last night at 11.30pm. Then Fox is showing it again on March 6th at 9.30pm. So now there is no excuse for you to not have seen this episode at least once. Make sure you see it so it doesn't die an untimely death like Family Guy did.

Just be warned, it's pretty sick, twisted, and inappropriate.

How awesome is that?

Btw, happy valentine's day

In South Riding, no one can hear you scream

So what is it with South Riding. It's an incredibly unusual place. It's a cross between Pleasantville and the Stepford Wives town. I've enjoyed it as my neighbours are pretty decent ( some are smokin hotties as well!), and my property values have already gone up 10% since july.

Problem is, it's dreadfully dull. And i guess this is a good thing. There is almost no crime, and there are only 25% of the normal EMS / Firefighter calls that is 'normal' based on our population, density and general demographics.

More importantly, I have a neighbour who has offered to help me build a custom motorcycle from the ground up. _this_ i am looking forward to. It's time to pull my head out and start working on the design so i know what i need to order and start ordering it. springtime is coming soon.

Anyway, time to sleep.

Lazy or boring?

Here's my dilemma – either I'm a lazy blogger, or I'm a really boring mofo. Neither one is particularly appealing. I would like to think that I'm neither lazy nor boring, but I won't say anything one way or another as I think my friends would have a field day with that one.

So let's analyze my week...

Work – well – nothing ever happens there. I sit in a cube. I spend time on conference calls with my phone on mute while doing an MST3K style commentary.

On the other hand, this week at the fire station, I was running on the EMS side instead of firefighting. I'm going to be the driver on Thursdays so I need to spend some more time with that side of the house.

I got to help transport a 1 yr old boy to the hospital who had a 103.4 fever and had had some pretty nasty seizures. And on Friday night I was working with a 22 yr old Indian woman who swallowed approx 26 prescription sleeping pills on purpose after a 'minor tiff' with her husband. That call was pretty freaky. Not only that, she of course vomited en masse. However, being the good EMS low ranking peon that I am, I turned her towards me instead of the Rescue Department's Chief. Fortunately it was 99% water (imagine regurgitated mango lassi!!) so it didn't smell too bad. Plus I managed to dodge the flow while keeping her pulse-ox and the ABP on her and more importantly, dry.

Not bad for a n00b.

Know I know I was told to keep a spare uniform in my car when I run EMS. Gotta admit, it feels good being right there to really help someone, no matter how messed up the situation is.

So back to the original question...

Lazy? sure. Boring, probably. But at least's I'm a boring lazy guy who works his non-existent ass off doing some really cool stuff.

Time for some ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....