Work hard, play harder, sleep later; Experience as much as humanly possible within the limits of physical law.Friendly but very intense, sometimes almond-joy nuts; I'm my own biggest fan + my own toughest critic, exactly like you.
Troop Support Rally / National Guard Deployment July 4th Weekend, 2007
Trailer for Motorcyclenight.com DVD
A dream to some... a nightmare to others!You can hold a reel of film in your hands and it's all finished and complete - beginning,middle, and end are all there that same second. The film exists beyond the time that it records, and ifyou know what the movie is, you know generally what's going to happen before you walk into the theater:battles and excitement, winners and losers, romance, disaster; you know that's all going to be in there.But in order to get caught up and swept away in it, in order to enjoy it to its most, you have to put itin a projector and let it go through the lens minute by minute. So you pay your nickle, get your ticket,settle down, forget what's going on outside the theater and the movie begins for you...
My first impressions are always wrong... At about thirty seconds old I was placed in my mother's arms; she says I opened my eyes, took a long slow look all aroundthe delivery room, and then closed them and went to sleep. I probably thought I had everything figured out! Pretty much every moment since has been a lesson in humility.
About every five minutes I do what he did & see what she saw.I have a lot in common with this guy...This guy is my hero......and this kind of thing happens to me every day.
When I see '9:11' on the clock I feel lucky to be alive. My heart goes out every timeI see a plane in the air, and when emergency vehicles go by. I try to thank every soldier, cop& firefighter I meet. This flag is no longer a chip on my shoulder.
Clark Kent is the city engineer's technician at a municipal DPW. I testify in court, get knee-deep inwater breaks, play tomb raider in the cemetery + ride shotgun in the sewer-sucker truck, sometimes allin the same day. Having a short attention span helps a lot... I also spend a lot of time at the computerdrawing maps: underground utilities, truck routes, event layouts and court exhibits for city, state,county and federal law enforcement. But I'll let you lead the way because I have zero patience forfollowing a map when I'm on the bike - I'd much rather get lost than sit at the side of the road readingone! My hypocricy knows no bounds.
I try not to take things too seriously - it's not as easy as it looks. I'm the only one that can make meuncomfortable & the only one that can make me happy.
Little kids like motorcycles because they have faith. If I really had faith, I wouldn't be afraid of what I haven't experienced yet.
I would look forward to it instead.
Bikers are more exposed than most travelers, but they experience the road and scenery more vividly. Iwave to anyone that looks. I don't own rain gear but I dry out. I don't like to carry baggage so I end up with over-stuffed pockets. Idon't carry a map but I trust my sense of direction and I learn best by getting lost. I neverremember the names of streets but if I've been there once I can get there again. I'm good at readingsigns but I ride very hard, and I often blow right bymy exit. I like quiet farm roads best but crowded highways are a rush too. Some people's bikescost more than I earn in a year, and some will never even sit on one. I've realizedthat very few people ride at the same speed, and noone sees exactly the same thing over the bars,but I'm getting better at sharing the road. I'm the only one that can be blamed if I feel road rage: with humility, bad drivers are just as easy to avoid as they are to spot. When I was younger I drove like a complete asshole, then for awhile I got in the correct lane early so I could block other people out. Now I get to it early so I can help others get there safely. Someday when I lose the urge to fight the ones that still drive aggressively, I will have arrived.
Art interpretation is a rabbit hole for me, especially the subconscious audio/visual/physical communication we get from film. I have regrets about once per minute, and what other people think means everything to me. I like to puzzle over the great ironys of life; there are plenty inmine. And I have a huge problem with karma: who the hell am I to decide what someone else deserves? For mewhat goes around doesn't always come around, and things don't happen for a reason, but everythinghas a reason... give me a couple days and I'll think of a good one.