Random Thoughts in August

I’ve been spending most of my free time on the www.twowheeltrips.com website. Little tweaks here and there. It’s not exactly taking off, but I had a feeling it might be a while before it gets heavily utilized.

I think NYC affected far more than I would have liked. Every since I’ve been home I’ve had a terrible time of feeling depressed and somewhat anti-social. I can’t explain it, but I’m not very happy right now and yet I have no real reason to be unhappy.

I may have to start traveling up to Montana a bit more. I’m trying to work out the details with my company – one of which is to be a shortened and definitive schedule. I can’t go up there for six months and not know when I’m coming home or anything. It would help if we could just find someone to work for us up there. If you are a Systems / Network Engineer and would like a job let me know!

I haven’t been feeling very creative (see above), but I had a jam with some friends and have slowly been working on some new material. Nothing to get excited about. I need to find a good way to lay down tracks on the computer, but haven’t made up my mind on what kind of interface to use.

I have to travel to WY this week for a gig with a customer. Fortunately it’s only for a few days.
One of my good friends came and stayed with me for a few days. Unfortunately, it was because he was going to leave his wife. They’ve had problems even before they got married and the problems just got worse and worse over the years. I think I have heard him say “I’m done” or “it’s over” at least 30 or 40 times. The thing is, he really needs to be done with her. They are both wrapped up in each other. I let him stay here so he would have a place to stay and continue to work while working through a divorce. But, he just can’t stay away from her and he ended up going back and staying over there and only coming over here when they would fight – almost every night. Then it was staying over there more and more. I finally had to ask him to get his stuff out. I’m not a ½-way house, but more importantly I can’t enable him to have a way out of a bad situation for only a night or two. He needs to deal with it. I really felt bad because he was asking if he could leave important documents over here. As he puts it everything gets destroyed when they fight. He can’t have a safety deposit box because that would mean he is hiding something from his wife and she will freak out on him (he’s not really hiding something, but that is how she thinks). He also asked if he could leave some socks, undies, or bathroom supplies over here in case he needed them. I said no. He doesn’t seem to understand that that would be enabling him to have a way out and allow him to not deal with a situation because his wife is a crazy psychopath.

Grasshopper is home from Iraq. I’ve been hanging out with him and his new wife a bit. It’s really good to see him and perhaps, more importantly, it’s really good to see him happy. Things are going well for them and I’m really glad to see it.

My g/f is in Costa Rica, but I couldn’t make it since I have to do the gig with my client….and it’s hot here. August in TX – we are in our third or fourth week (I forget) of triple digits. At least it will be cool in WY.

Lot’s of other things going on, but I just don’t feel creative enough to write about all of it.

Two Wheel Trips is Online!

Well I finally got my website online. It’s pretty much for and about motorcycle riders:

http://www.twowheeltrips.com

it took me way too long to get it online, but at least it’s up. We’ll see what happens over the next few months.