The latest (buy maybe not greatest) project!

This is a motorcycle that I got from a lady who wanted it "Out of my driveway!"
When she asked if we would take it I said "free motorcycle? HECK YES!"

The catch: It has been sitting in her driveway for two years! It doesn't run, and is dry as a bone. It does turn over though. Its in peices right now waiting to be fixed and turned into a sweet cafe' racer!

Peddlers Pocket

http://joshbenserblog.com/pedalers-pocket/

This guy is an amazing friend of mine (for all of you who don't know him)
check out this sweet plan to make a difference in peoples lives with bikes!

"I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike! I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride where I like!" lol.

my computer is a zombie

It's been a decent amount of time since I blogged, the reason why? my computer died. Hard drive just up and toasted itself one day. Lucky for me!

Ok, so unlucky, but the first time it did similar things I went in to Best Buy and they said "Its a program issue, so its not under warrenty"

Needless to say I did not pay them. I went home and figured it out myself.

the next time I try doing the same thing, doesn't work. So I try reinstalling the OS...and then it really doesn't work. Bring it into Best Buy "Oh, yeah, its your hard drive." Just goes to show you you might not want to jump to conclusions at the "Geek Squad" desk.



Any way the computer is finally back up and running now...of course I have to start from scratch and reinstall all my programing and such, but at least I have it back.

Vinyl

When was the last time you were excited about opening up a new record? shoot, when was the last time half of us OPENED a new record...(and I'm not talking about the digital file)

Well last night I was excited, why? because I just purchased the new Coldplay album, "Viva La Vida". By album I mean record, as it "record player". thats right, I got a Vinyl record. It's so much fun! I can't even play the thing (yet) but I'll tell you what, its about the coolest thing I own right now.

Now I just have to go find a record player to buy...hum...

ps: it came with the CD also, so I can listen to that...but I want to listen to the record! so cool.

Epson Stylus Photo r1900!

This is an amazing printer. It came in the mail tuesday, and I printed with it yesterday. A kid in a candy store where every thing was free would not be as excited as I am right now! This is a semi-professional printer. which is to say, its to good to print documents. It's a 13 inch wide format printer that can print pages 13 by 44 inches! Thats amazing. And its sitting in my living room.

Its amazing!

and I got it on dicount!

Which is even more amazing!

Feb...spring...and the smell of burnt rubber.

Ok, back to the good old crazy Chuck and his silly car blog posts!

It's February! Hooray! The drag strip will (With any luck) be sticking it to the financial crisis and opening up for those of us who bite the bullet and fill up our tanks multiple times a week because we are addicted to making our cars move quicker than the guy beside us.

Note: if you have a sports car...buy a motorcycle, you'll save gas that way.

Any way. I'm itching to make the trip out to Dorchester Dragway and test out my new set up...with any luck it isn't going to be the same very long.


For the rest of you who are laughing at all the silly car people...you guys have a good one too.

"Its not about how many miles you get...its about how much fun you have with in those miles"

*WARNING:: Political Rant* Mr. President, you are a liar.

So today congress voted on a bill. This bill is the single largest spending bill passed by congress. This bill dwarfs the stimulus package that was passed under Bush, which the American people said no to.

This rant is about the bold face lie that has been handed to the American people. Barack Obama said that the government needed to be transparent, but this bill was finalised behind closed doors. Barack Obama said that all bills would be open to the public for 48 hours before being passed into law...the bill was not even completed until late last night, and it was voted on today.

The American People have been lied to and many of us welcomed this with open arms.

The bill was rushed because Nancy Pelosi needed to go to Italy to receive an award. Why is Nancy Pelosi even getting an award from somebody in ITALY!? Why is she getting an award from ANYBODY!?? Politicians shouldn't get awards! If they do a good job they get re-elected...besides, its their JOB to do a good job...that's why we vote for them in the first place.

Now, I'm just a simple guy who gets most of his info from the news and talk radio. So far I have heard nothing actually good about this bill. I love the bit about some ridicules amount of money going to help the salt weed mouse, or what ever. WHY ARE WE GIVING A MOUSE MONEY!? I don't care if it's endangered...the bill is supposed to stimulate the ECONOMY! The salt weed mouse will NEVER BUY ANYTHING...and as such can NEVER help the economy.


_Side note_
("Oh, but it's endangered and we need to take responsibility for killing it off"...I agree that we need to take care of the planet, but we need to let a dead horse, or mouse, lie. PEOPLE are dieing because of stuff we've done wrong...PEOPLE are more important than a freaking mouse. If I lose control of my car and hit a person and a mouse...who should I bring to the hospital?)
_End side note_

I'm not saying that its bad to try and help the American people out (after all, it's partially the governments fault we got into this mess) I'm sure that there must be some good in this bill. Sure, OK, pass it, but only after it's been read, amended, cut down to size, got all the junk pulled out of it, and made into an actual bill that could actually help instead of a dumping pot of random spending.

But no, what do we get? We get, "Oh, this is a good bill...trust me, you don't need to read it...its only like 1000 pages, there is no way we hid anything in it. Oh and about that whole "we'll let the American people read see it first" thing, forget we said that." And THAT is what I'm saying is WRONG! WRONG WRONG WRONG! BAD IDEA! You NEVER EVER EVER sign a contract involving money if you don't READ IT FIRST! because if you did there is a chance that you get RIPPED OFF!

Oh, but politicians never rip people off...right. Because we know when we are going to get ripped off...because that makes sense.

The Government has finally proven once and for all that it is broken. The People in charge right now can not operate the thing we call government correctly. I was riding to work today and I was actually scared for the future. What in the world are we doing? How did we let this happen?

God bless America...we're gonna need it.