Been too long since I was really blogging. I am trying to suppliment my income with online stuff, Associated content and other freelance writing. I do enjoy writing. AC is getting my medical content, it helps to keep my EMT knowledge sharp. My goal is one a day, and today I didn't do one. So tomorrow I have to do two. I suck.

I am also trying to finish my Nano 2007 novel. I have gone over my notes and cleaned them up. And I have downloaded yWriter, a free bit of novel writing software. I am still learning my way around ti, but it seems like it will keep my brain focused and on track.

I an also researching my first non-fiction novel, a history of Wisconsin, mainly it is an excuse to ride the rustic roads on the Ural. I am looking forward to it, but the weather is not cooperating. I have to think about the touring bike too, Misery is getting new shock and anew handlebars. But do I need three bikes anymore?

Time will have to tell. I will pass it on.

So I got engaged. It is nice to be engaged. I think. Actually, the promise was made a while ago, and so now it just must be kept. Unless one of use releases the other, I guess. I am not sure I can see that happening. Still, tomorrow is promised to none, and each day is a new discovery. Discovery about her, about me, about us. We have to keep discovering, or else we diminish in some way. Every day must be an adventure, faced without fear, but respect. And a bit of a smile.

Expectations

I really try to be wonderful all the time. You would think that is a very laudible goal, but it does seem to create it's own problems. Like when I don't want to be wonderful, but a little selfish and lazy.

It's not all the time I feel that way, of course. But I do feel that way occasionally. I mean, I am used to spending most of my time alone, and I might actually need some alone time to feel healthy. Motorcycling, of course, helps. You can feel very alone on the back of a bike in the middle of nowhere. Especially when the bike stops working. But quiet evenings at home with a book, or just vegging in front of the TV is nice too.

To be selfish, or to be wonderful. I think Shakespeare had the wrong question.

Be safe, and keep the rubber side down.

Post V-Day

Well, the trickle pf gifts was not well received, though the chocolate went over very well. I am still alittle hurt over it, but I will live.

I like to stay at hotels, and over the last couple years have been using Country Inns just about exclusively. The beds are comfy, and they have free breakfest. Well, alot of places actually have free breakfest now, but I just like Country Inns. I would recommend them to anyone looking to travel.

I also like camping, but you can't easily camp in Wisconsin in Febuary, especially in a town when visiting your girlfriend, who's idea of roghing it is the lack of Food Network on the TV.

She really is cute, though, and not as bad as that sounds. I am sure I will hear about typing it later.

All well, Back to work. Be safe, and keep the rubber side down.

I had really good intentions when I started this blog, seems I have some issues to work out.

Valentines day is just around the corner, next week in fact. A time when guys shower their women with gifts. My woman, who is way better than I deserve, probably, isn't really getting a shower, more of a trickle, but it is a high quality trickle, so I hope that makes up for it. At least she is not getting a stuffed animal, she says she has enough of those.

She was also on me to update this, so I need to thank her for that too, since I really do need to update this more often. And she puts up with me.

Yikes, so much for posting every day.

The quest is on for Motorcycle boots, not the $200 kind, either. I got a very nice pair of boots 15 years ago, but replacing mine, and finding a pair for my Significant Other, is turning into a real pain. More becuase we can't seem to shop together. All well.

I will get her boots. And maybe some chocolate. Chocolate makes everything better.

It was a good, and trusted friend. Perhaps I was not as nice to it as I could have been. I did, for a time, replace it with another, but we all stray from time to time.

My laptop. Dead. Lost drivers, bad hard drive, I don't think I will be able to pull it through.

In fact, ti has been a bad week for old mechanical companions (Okay, a laptop is not excatly mechanical, but it does have moving parts. I mean, doesn't it?). I have a Motorcycle (Okay, several, actually, stay with me here, people), an XS1100H. Graet bike, just got a new motor (long story). Yesterday the weather was just wonderful, it had to be in the 40s, blue sky, for December in Wisconsin, just amazing. So, out I go to the XS11, nice and warm in the garage hooked up to the battery charger. I have not ridden in a couple of weeks, and that didn't go well (And it was on another bike a BMW. THe XS11 wold not start, dead battery. hence, the charger).

Well, the bike turned over like a champ, but would not start. Seems someone (*cough*me*cough*) left the fuel lines on Prime, which completely flodded the engine. Probably got gas in the crank case too. The bike was not going anywhere. And I had christmas shopping to do.

Well, the BMW was sitting there, where it had been, outside in the cold (It got into the negatives, you know) half buried in a snow bank, bt I figure "What do I have to lose?"

The BMW Starts right up. Didn't even need the choke. A few minutes of shovelling, and it was free, and I got my ride. Those germans, they make a good ride. Need a new tire, though. I guess I will have to work on that.

Well, if anyone actually reads this, I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Be safe, and keep the rubber side down.