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I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:00 +0000

from Arlo Guthrie's website:
(and on a VERY cool note, He's coming in concert to Jacksonville in FEB!!!!! Woot!! I got a Thing to do in a couple of Months!!!

I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler
by Tom Paxton

Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight
And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight
What the dollar used to get us
Now won't buy a head of lettuce
No the economic forecast isn't right
But amidst the clouds I spot a shining ray

I can even glimpse a new and better way
And I've demised a plan of action
Worked it down to the last fraction
And I'm going into action here today

CHORUS:
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker
What they did for Iacocca
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a million grand out
I'll be standing with my hand out
Yes sire I'll get mine

When my creditors are screaming for their dough
I'll be proud to tell them all where they can all go
They won't have to scream and holler
They'll be paid to the last dollar
Where the endless streams of money seem to flow
I'll be glad to tell them what they can do
It's a matter of a simple form or two
It's not just renumeration it's a liberal education
Ain't you kind of glad that I'm in debt to you

CHORUS

Since the first amphibians crawled out of the slime
We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it's sad that failure is an awful crime
Well it's been that way for a millenium or two
But now it seems that there's a different point of view
If you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic
Down to congress there's a safety net for you

CHORUS

A good day.

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:26:00 +0000

I had a great day with Maggie on Wednesday. She came into work with me and we had a great time going around campus and hanging out. I got to show her around the labs and the rest of the campus. We spent all morning walking around... so by the evening I was in serious pain! Ouch my back really hurt lol. Helen took amazing care of me and I stayed in bed for most of the evening playing WoW and relaxing and trying not to move.

Zen and the art of fixing my bike.

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:32:00 +0000

Hey it really helps to tighten the clutch pedal after screwing it all to hell. Fell over on Fri. and jacked up my bike a little. I have fixed most everything but it wasn't until this morning that I realized my clutch pedal was about to fall off. I made it into work before finding a couple of wrenches and fixing it.

As far as the falling over, I'm ok. My ankle is hurt by being trapped under the bike. My hip hurts on the left side b/c that's where I landed. My shoulder really hurt because it got smashed into the ground hard. Everything is healing fine though. My ankle still hurts a little, but my shoulder feels fine now and my hip feels normal.

A different kind of Friday...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:13:00 +0000

When I end up looking up robotech charaters like Lynn MinMay, things are different. I'm also installing Ubuntu Linux on an old G4 PPC machine, so I can make a firewall... Seems like this comes up occasionally.

I like challenges, again and again. On another note, I'm going to start helping the Jacksonville group with foodrescue.net They (We) go around collecting bread & stuff from bakeries and taking it to local homeless shelters. So I'm doing a Tuesday run from Panera to Clara White mission. I was reading from the Gosple of Matthew last night and the story of the servants who used their talents convicted me that I wasn't really using my talents as good as I could. I had gotten the email about the food rescue people a couple of weeks ago, but I let it slide and slide and slide and last night, with conviction in my blood emailed the lady coordinating it. So on certain Tuesdays I get to deliver bread. I am planning some other things too, but I'll talk about those later.

On another note, I'm on facebook! Search for me, I'm there.

A tradition

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:28:00 +0000

of posting once a week. I should keep it up. :-)

I had a meeting canceled today and I don't quite know what to do with myself. I had graphs too. I guess I will work on the presentation for next week. It's the most immanent thing going on.

Had a good time going to the band contest. Helen & I got to see Maggie & Chelsea perform. It was nice and we had a mostly good time. Other than that it was a quiet weekend at home. I enjoyed it and spent my time playing a bunch of Warcraft. I'm working on getting a priest to lvl 70 before November. It's been exciting and tiring at the same time.

Ouch

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:12:00 +0000

I fucking bit the inside of my cheek while eating a Clif Bar. It's been one of those mornings.

It's that time again...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:55:00 +0000

Things roll around in our brains and come to the surface for air, or just intrude themselves on our thoughts, and we are drawn to them again for no reason. Like the song that gets stuck in your head and wont leave until you've heard it again.

We had this brilliant idea at work to add/share our favorite movies on our internal wiki. And now 'pulp-fiction' is stuck in my head, rolling around like a marble in a can. I liked Reservoir Dogs better as far as Quentin Tarentino movies go, but it's hard to recommend since a lot of people find it way to violent. While it's very violence, it is a very raw film, lots of very strong emotions in a whirl wind of fury that drive the plot to it's bitter end.

My Recommended Movie list btw:

* Blade Runner
* Be Kind, Rewind
* Children of Men
* Aliens
* Alien
* 2001
* 2010
* Jaws
* 28 Days Later
* Shaun of the Dead
* Contact
* Spirited Away (anime)
* Howl's Moving Castle (anime)
* Princess Mononoke (anime)
* Clerks
* Resident Evil (I liked all three but the 1st and 3rd were the best)
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Stargate
* The Mission
* Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (anime)
* Underworld -- Vampires vs. Werewolves
* Starship Troopers
* South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
* Reservoir Dogs
* Vampire Hunter D (anime)
* The 13th Warrior

I got these two pics in the email today:

My response to the invite was, "Why can't you just be happy that your son found someone to share his life with no matter how it turns out you bitter wench." Then I saw the pic and thought, "Hey those are big enough to eat spaghetti off of." It just seems pointless to try to make fun on someone elses happiness no matter how they choose to display it.

HOme sick...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:37:00 +0000

I'm home sick today. I wanted to go to work since we were going to tour the Network Ops Center at UNF. My head feels like it's going to explode though, so I think rest is better for me.

I'm reading Stephen King's last Dark Tower series book, "The Dark Tower". It amazes me the back & forth swings in his writing style and the emotions he portrays through it. It seems at times like there's two personalities writing the same material.

Blinded...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:21:00 +0000

Driving into work, the sun was behind a small cloud. Light pouring around the edges, the sun exploded from behind it. Pained by the light, I flipped down my visor, but was amazed by the beauty of it.

Needs more work...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:09:00 +0000

Well, I'm not very far in pushing forward the cleaning of my websites. If anything it's kind of stalled. I'm happy with the wallpaper gallery though. That's been fun for me. It fits my organizing nature to categorize things based on subject, aspect ratio and pixel size.

I had a greate weekend cleaning up & relaxing. It had been a really long week and so I really needed time to relax. I got it by spending time in the yard. I don't have a "green-thumb" by any means, but I do enjoy working with the plants. I find it relaxing to do something non-computer related every once in a while.

Anyway, back to working on prime numbers...

Moving Sites around

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:34:00 +0000

Ugh Moving websites sucks. I managed to break something in one of dad's gallery's while moving stuff on my website. Hopefully I'll get it fixed this weekend. I want everything ready to move soon.

For now though, I'm cleaning:

It's been a while...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:27:00 +0000

So I've been busy switching jobs and ... reworking some of the things in my life. Mostly internal stuff, I can't say it's been exciting. I have generated a lot of junk in the process, now i just need to get rid of it. My office is a shambles now, I need to finish the cleaning I started there. Also I need to pull in all the junk I've managed to spread around the house.

Any way it's just a process of letting go.

I'm backing up one of my server's and seeing that I had a huge collection of photos of various super models for some project I don't remember... I still consider it a win. :-)

I have a lot of half=started/finished projects. Maybe one day I'll finish them all.

for now though here's a funny picture...

Lunch today

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:28:00 +0000

I'm eating left-over Chinese food for lunch today.

Ups & Downs

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:05:00 +0000

Was beat & stressed yesterday. The weekend wasn't restful. Saturday I had to put down one of the Kittens Maggie brought in. It had megaesophagus and was starving to death. We took it to the vet and spent 3 hours there... not a fun experience in the best of circumstances.

Having to do that made me think of Obie and having to put him down. Also, these kittens are really only here for a little bit longer until we have to send them to the pound anyway. Here they are in action:

So it's made me kinda down for the past few days, and I think I've just been a little depressed in general. It's gotten better though.

I've begun the process of cleaning my computer room. Actually I've been making it more dirty by getting in all the computer junk I have and centralizing it in my office area. On the good side of things it helps me consolidate everything, on the bad side it leads to clutter, and I hate clutter. :-)

My plan, is to setup my windows PC for games again, my Mac for graphics and rendering, my linux box will remain my server, and I will fix-up the old dell to be the TV control box (that also plays CD's and acts as a giant photo displayer). I got the mac setup yesterday and I got the latest ubuntu as well. The windows game machine needs a power supply and I need to get to installing on the old dell.

Return to your first love, it's a paraphrase from the Revelations in the Bible, and I use it help me to remember to not get distracted from the things I enjoy doing. In Revelations St. John was talking to the church of Epahasus, but I remember it to help keep me grounded. There are reasons we love to do the things we do, and remembering that helps keep us centered. I've filled my life with a lot of distractions recently and keeping first things, first has been a problem. So, I'm jumping back into my computers, as my hobby as well as my profession again, and using them like I enjoy using them.

sleepy from violent dream

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:45:00 +0000

I went to sleep 'late', maybe around 1am, but I woke up at 6:30 because of a horrible dream.

I usually don't have dreams like this one. It was really violent, the beating women kind of violent. In fact I've only had that kind of dream three times. I wonder about my brain when I have dreams like this, was it a specific event that triggered it or was it just too much tv or is there some evil piece in my mind that feeds on things like this or does some demon know where to jab his spear in my brain to trigger these thoughts no matter what I'm doing... It had made me really tired though. Even though I slept I got no rest and woke up early. I guess part of me didn't want to watch the television of my brain. I spent the next hour and half sleeping and waking in a chair... I heard Helen leave on her scooter, and I finally got up and showered and rode into work.

Blog like IM

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Hungry... just need breakfast...

work
work
work

got Caeser, a new/old dog lol.

blah

Yay Larry & Cathy & Becky & Will!
Need to call Becky... ugh todo todo todo

need to stop eating fingernails.

KungFu Hustle is best movie Ever!!!

Needs more techs.

My iMac is dead. :-( Helen is taking it to the vet later on today.

Guitar lessons going good, I need to practice more.
got nice calouses on my fingers from it.

Movie Night: Death Note

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:18:00 +0000

We went to see Death Note last night.

It was good, details to follow...

It's been a while...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:48:00 +0000

I just looked at my own blog for the first time in a while. Oberon is no longer with us. He died of kidney failure three weeks after we got him. Me & Pooks were really sad about it. We're looking into new dogs now though, hopefully we'll find one that fits us.

One funny thing that happened while we had Obe... Our backyard neighbor's dog came running into our yard, he'd gotten loose somehow, and of course ran up to check out Obe. He then went around the yard marking everything and just checking things out. It was a male boxer and he had a cold too, his nose was runny. He got next to Pooks who'd been petting & showing him some affection, when he did the barrel roll shake and flung droll and snot all over the place. Pooks had this look of absolute horror that she might get some on her. She squealed and shrieked, and the dog stopped and just looked at her like, "What's your problem?".

I found a friend of mine is unexpectedly pregnant.

I started guitar lessons. I'm having a blast learning it. I need to get a metronome to work on my timing. I still haven't tried riding the motorcycle with the guitar on my back yet... :-)

Speaking of motorcycles, I've been riding just about everywhere recently. I'm really having a blast and hating stop lights. I have also started using my head phones while riding, It's nice to be able to have background music.

Work is stressed, no one knows what's going on and things are seriously confused. The migration to the new system is progressing miserably and has seriously failed. I haven't heard of a single success story. So our IT transition, failed, my job, who knows.

On a good note, Pooks & I seem to have found a church we like. Avondale UMC, it's well lit, they keep the AC low, the stain glass is nice, and the pastor must have ADD. He was all over the place during the sermon on Sunday. He made an analogy between the sacrifice of William Walace in Braveheart and the sacrifice of Jesus. It's the first time I've ever heard "eviscerate" in church. :-) I thought it was great. Pooks and I are definitely coming back. We also like that church starts at 11am so we can sleep late.

Oberon is here...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Oberon has joined our family. He's a 6 pound rescue (skin and bones) from the Clay county animal shelter. We picked him up yesterday.

He's only about 8 weeks old and very much under-weight.

The good weekend in which Bobo tried to kill me.

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:48:00 +0000

I'm waiting for 50 frames of an animation to resize by 50%.

It's work that I did this afternoon.

It's work I can't get to because my company's VPN sucks balls.

That's the official computer term for it.

Pooks and I had a really good weekend. After waking up early Saturday morning.

(I had a nightmare that I was trapped under a net in the water. I was breaking the net off of my face to get to the surface, but it kept reforming and I would sink after getting a breath. I was yelling help over and over again b/c I knew I was dreaming and I needed Pooks to wake me up. She heard me eventually and woke me up fully.)

We made coffee and grabbed some snacks and rode our motorcycles down to a park on the river. It was a cool clear night and the roads were empty. We got to the park about 4am and we talked and drank coffee and watched the stars. We saw two satelites fly overhead. We prayed and sang some songs and watched the sun rise in the East. We left there to go get breakfast.

That's when Bobo tried to kill me.

Around 7am when we left people were coming into the park to walk their dogs. We had just pulled out of our parking spots while a lady ahead of us was getting out of her car. Pooks pulled around her with no problems but when I got close a little pamper pekinese jumped out of the drivers side of the car and ran right in front of me and stopped. "Bobo No!", the old lady shouted and she tried to shield Bobo from me with her body. I was not going to hit this lady or Bobo so I had slowed down as soon as Bobo hopped out. I think the lady was really stupid though, instead of putting the leash she had IN HER HAND on the dog, she tried to herd him, while still acting like a human shield, over to the sidewalk. Leash your dogs before you get out of the car or else someone may hit them. I was able to stop in time though, even though Bobo tried to kill me.

We had breakfast at Dave's and as we were leaving me Mom & Dad going in, so we all stopped for a long breakfast.

We did a lot more riding on Saturday, out to get Pooks' plates for her bike. The bike shop was having a customer appreciation lunch and we enjoyed hamburgers and talked with another biker there. We road home and took another nap. We were dead tired. Sunday was even worse, I got a bad sunburn on my head and so spent Sunday kinda feeling awful, probably a little sun stroke. All in all though it was a great weekend we had together.

I am preparing to move servers... still... in moving though I found a treasure chest of old chat logs. Lots of conversations with friends and things I had totally forgotten about. I'm really happy to have found them again!

Moving virtual data is hard work....

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Data has no mass... well as a form of energy it can have mass. So moving data is hard work, kind of like moving a ton of goo. I'm spending time moving my web hosting around, ugh, it's not something I'm enjoying doing. It needs to get done though.

I'm getting better at riding, I drove on my motorcycle into work this morning. I wouldn't mind taking some longer trips soon. Pooks got me a orange jacket road-hazard jacket to go over my leather one. I didn't wear it today, but I think I will attach it to my shoulder things on my motorcycle jacket to make it like a cape, that'll be cool.

I can't wait to get my helmet though, my eyes dry out in the wind, or I end up with tears coming down my face while riding as the wind pushes my eye moisture out the edges of my eyes. It's a weird feeling.

Pooks is now almost moved out of her old job, hopefully into a new one soon. We've been having problems getting to sleep recently. We get to bed but just can not fall asleep, like staying up later is a norm. This really makes for long afternoons where I feel like sleeping but can't.

Riding in this morning was great, it was cool & nice. A bit windy, but nice. I need to fix a mirror, it's a little loose in it's mounting, but really I want to replace them. I can't see around my shoulders, I need the mirror mounts to be a little longer for that.

Spent the weekend cleaning, the house really needed it.

Cover Letter...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:40:00 +0000

I.T in general and System Administration specifically are customer service fields. There are a lot of people in I.T. that give this philosophy lip-service claiming that they are there for the customer one second, but then bad mouthing them the next. I believe that Google provides real customer service as part of it's fundamental mission. Google understands what people need, ostensibly information, and at the same time believes in giving this to them with a service oriented attitude that does not talk down to the customer.

I believe this too and want to be part of the services that Google provides. I worked in the public sector at various service organizations and the best jobs are where a difference is made by using I.T. to help someone. I see I.T. as a way to change the world for the better by giving information, in a way teaching people to fish. I am able to communicate this vision well to my employees and peers, and to effect change through it.

I see working at Google as a chance to be a part of something bigger than myself, while at the same time being personally involved with the mission. I would enjoy working within Google to provide the services our customers need.

Thank you for your consideration.

--Donald Cowart

long weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Had a long weekend... I can't say it was really restful even though I did spend quite a bit of time screwing around. I think it's the things I 'need' to do looming over my head. Dishes, cat litter, laundry, chores, and damn dirty chores too!

I did have some fun helping Dad & his neighbor Rexx hanging new gutters on his house. More pics over on his blog entry for the day. It was fun b/c me and Rexx made jokes at Dad's expense. It was fun for us. I got to do pop-riveting again, which I haven't done since junior high school metal shop. I got to it pretty easily though, the rivet gun was a bit rusty though and stuck often.

Pooks and I spent time on Sunday cleaning and working. Well I cleaned and she worked. Well, by cleaning I mean I shuffled stuff around without really "cleaning". Full of sound & fury (&dust) but not much after that. I did find the broom though, it's been missing for a week now, so things have gotten dusty.

Rode motorbike into work this morning...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:13:00 +0000

and froze my butt off. It's 51 degrees F (11 deg C) outside and with the wind chill of riding at 30mph it gets really cold.

A long weekend, Helen's been sick and I've been taking care of her. It's been really stressfull and tiring. I slept through church on Sunday morning b/c we'd been up until 6am with Helen getting up and down since 2am. I tried to stay up but passed out on the couch. I didn't wake up until around 10am as Maggie was walking out to go to church. I didn't feel to bad about missing church, helping Helen during the night was more important.

I was off the bike for three days, just dead with work and helping Helen. I got back on Easter though and sang hymns as I drove around. That was my Easter worship, I prayed as I drove down to the river and then back and took a route to work to get familiar with it before trying it in rush hour traffic. It worked I got to work this morning with no problems other than freezing my butt off.

So some notes after the first week & a half of riding...

noreply@blogger.com (Big Guy TD) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:01:00 +0000

Cold & hot... wear gloves & a jacket. The wind is really cold. I really notice it once I go inside after having been out. Once I come inside my body gets really hot. I guess it's trying to overcompensate for the wind chill. Wearing gloves is great if (like me) you don't have a windshield. Your hands freeze up fast. Of course this is in FL so "cold" here is anything below 60. I'll let you know how hot weather riding is once May/June gets here...

For me, never having learned to drive a manual transmission vehicle, learning to operate the controls was challenging and Very frustrating. I had never ridden a motorcycle before either so my brain was working hard at assimilating a lot of new information. I still stall out starting from a stop occasionally, especially if there's a slight rear incline to the road. The solution give it more gas and GO. I still have to break my car habit of giving it gas and expecting it to move... the manual transmission needs a little more of a "hands on" approach than I am used too.

I was also having a problem shifting gears and knowing which gear I was in after I had shifted and then not shifted for a little bit (forgetting which gear I was in really). I found that saying the gear shift out loud really helped with that. So you can hear me saying, 3 (downshift), 2(downshift), 1 as I come to a stop. If I try to many things I can screw it all up though, shifting while turning, while trying to hit the turn signal while screwing with the high beams(at night) I'll over rev the engine and clatter up to speed. My clutch probably hates me by now.

Remember the MSF class training, the slow speed & at speed turning were things both my wife and I had re-learn. She got a silverwing 04 and I got the shadow sabre 07 and so the training we got had to be re-introduced to our brains for the new hardware. It's very easy to lose focus and look at something on the side of the road while turning. That always gets me in trouble (wobble/unsteady turns). So remember to turn your head and look into the turn.

I know the ride2die site has gotten a lot of traction on CL recently for better or worse, but because of it I made us get real heavy-duty motorcycle jackets and gloves. Yeah it scared me, a lot of the accidents there were preventable, both by the riders and by the idiots in the cars. What really got to me were the very nice looking women with half of their skin scraped off. That's just sad... Anyway, to prevent that from happening to my beautiful woman, we both got nice gear. I'm still waiting for a helmet though, they gave us ones as part of the deal on the bikes, but my big ass 25" head wouldn't fit anything they had in the store, so I (they) are waiting for it to come in.

If your a new rider and see that I got an 1100cc bike and think, "Hey he got one with no-experience, I should get a 1300 then since he's a jerk and I'm cooler!" Get it and you will have some problems. I got this bike for ME and me only, I am 6'4" and 350lbs, my ass is fat and tall. I tried sitting on several bikes at the dealership and the problem I had was that while turning the wheels I would hit my knees. The 1100 was the lowest cc bike that I didn't have this problem on. So it fit my height. In the MSF class, I got around this by being on a dirt/street bike, taller than normal bikes, but on it I had problems accelerating. I knew that I would have the same problem if I got another 250cc bike, so I knew that I would have to go larger just for that. I also weighed that against my desire to get a bike that would last me for a while. So I knew I wanted to go for a higher cc engine. So think (honestly) about what you need and Why you "need" it when choosing a bike.

I love my shadow sabre 1100 though. It's not too much power, it gets me up to speed quick (when I shift gears right). I don't feel like I'm thrown off the back of the bike when I push the throttle. It is comfortable (for me) to ride.

Funny story... as I took my first ride around the block (without my helmet or adequate safety gear) I came up on one house that is notorious for having little chiquau, whatever Yappy-ass dogs, that roam free. So coming back up to my house, the three little bastards came running out to chase me. One of them stood in the road right in front of me for about five seconds before he realized in his small dog way, "Oh shit he's coming right for me!" So he takes off down the road right in front of me barking at me with his head fully turned around 180degrees from the way he's running. It was the funniest damn thing. I stopped to turn the corner towards my house and I see my wife laughing in the driveway at the spectacle. The little dogs were following me up the road barking at me like some mini-demonic color guard. It was hilarious.

On another animal related note, cats will always go for what's familiar. So if a cat walks across the street in front of you, it is either leaving home or going back to it. If it gets scared it has a high likely-hood of darting back across the street in front of you and not simply running away. Your luckily I was going slow Mr. White-cat-that-ran-in-front-of-me.

I went out last night riding, the moon was mostly full, lighting up the road in a pale silvery light. I was cruising down the road listening to the wind, watching for animals, checking cross streets for headlights and feeling peaceful the while time. Now that I've started I really enjoy riding, even with the problems I have, I can feel the freedom it provides. I feel closer to environment around me, i hear more things, smell more things and see more clearly on the motorcycle. Everything comes into a vivid focus that I never feel in my car.

--Donald