HEY!! Can I get a edge in Word Wise?
Don't you just hate it when your having a conversation with someone but the conversation is nothing but them talking? Keep waiting for the edge of the talking to pause a momen'et so you can get in a word.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Way Of The Wind (Update) (2nd update) (3rd update)
3rd
(Looks like my first article for Alamance is a go. They now want to come out and get some pictures of me and the cycle this week. My son has a nice camera and was going to do the pictures but the weekend was a busy one for him so we never had the chance. Plus it was burrr outside. Once they decide, and/or, get enough feedback to do more articles then I'll get me own camera for road pictures.)
2nd (I have just been informed by Mitch Boehm - the editor of Motorcyclist Retro magazine that was put on hold for economic reasons - that he will be going private with the renamed magazine of the same concept. The http://www.motorcycleretro.com/ site is under construction now plus issue one will be available in May. I'm excited can you tell.)
If anyone out there want's to know, my way of the wind column will be picked up for a trial by a local magazine called Alamance Magazine. The other magazine I was looking to get in with folded for the time being and another does not want to expand out this far for now. Economy woes and all.
So now I have a deadline for January 26th to get my article in, edited, approved and printed. Although I was going for a motorcycle specific media, this one will work out fine and give them something for the men folk. I have to keep it nice and clean because the goal is to attract younger readers as well as keep to being family friendly. This will be a test to see what the feed back generates for the magazine but I'm pretty pumped.
3rd
(Looks like my first article for Alamance is a go. They now want to come out and get some pictures of me and the cycle this week. My son has a nice camera and was going to do the pictures but the weekend was a busy one for him so we never had the chance. Plus it was burrr outside. Once they decide, and/or, get enough feedback to do more articles then I'll get me own camera for road pictures.)
2nd (I have just been informed by Mitch Boehm - the editor of Motorcyclist Retro magazine that was put on hold for economic reasons - that he will be going private with the renamed magazine of the same concept. The http://www.motorcycleretro.com/ site is under construction now plus issue one will be available in May. I'm excited can you tell.)
If anyone out there want's to know, my way of the wind column will be picked up for a trial by a local magazine called Alamance Magazine. The other magazine I was looking to get in with folded for the time being and another does not want to expand out this far for now. Economy woes and all.
So now I have a deadline for January 26th to get my article in, edited, approved and printed. Although I was going for a motorcycle specific media, this one will work out fine and give them something for the men folk. I have to keep it nice and clean because the goal is to attract younger readers as well as keep to being family friendly. This will be a test to see what the feed back generates for the magazine but I'm pretty pumped.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Win A 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster
Some of the fine folks over at www.xlforum.net are having a raffle for a 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster. This bike is being raffled off to some lucky person and the proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. Tickets are limited to 300 and cost $100 a piece so you can bet someone is going to have a great ride for summer, [and] know they helped with the fight against cancer. While I'm not at liberty to say who, but one of the members of the forum has a child with cancer. They have been doing a lemonade stand to raise funds to find a cure so this could really give a boost for them as well.
Good luck if you decide to enter ... and tell 'em Wooley sent ya
Some of the fine folks over at www.xlforum.net are having a raffle for a 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster. This bike is being raffled off to some lucky person and the proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. Tickets are limited to 300 and cost $100 a piece so you can bet someone is going to have a great ride for summer, [and] know they helped with the fight against cancer. While I'm not at liberty to say who, but one of the members of the forum has a child with cancer. They have been doing a lemonade stand to raise funds to find a cure so this could really give a boost for them as well.
Good luck if you decide to enter ... and tell 'em Wooley sent ya
Sunday, January 04, 2009
The Eagles band coming to North Carolina
They will be in Greensboro to perform on January 17. Prices for tickets are $60 to $190.
When I first saw this announcement I was interested but at those prices ... well. In a better economy those don't sound like a bad thing but hey, a few can still afford it I guess.
They will be in Greensboro to perform on January 17. Prices for tickets are $60 to $190.
When I first saw this announcement I was interested but at those prices ... well. In a better economy those don't sound like a bad thing but hey, a few can still afford it I guess.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Christmas Battery Minder
Man what a vacation holiday season this has been. I've been off since Christmas eve and a whole lot has happened in those days. On my way home from work Christmas eve my alternator went out on my truck. Had to wait until the twenty sixth to get it fixed for a couple hundred dollars I'd planned on using for tires.
We got some bad news that yet another family member passed away on the twenty fourth of December morning. This was sad as she left behind two college aged children and a cool husband.
We had a dinner party to attend Christmas Eve and it went nice and smooth. Then it was Christmas morning before we knew it and we opened up our presents - which one of them for me was a battery minder - and my son gave me the one for the bike. Been wanting to get one of these for awhile to keep those expensive batteries nice and charged up. The unit he got me will do up to five batteries at one time. After doing the gift deal we headed over to the Mother in-laws for breakfast and more exchanging of the packages . Looks like everyone got something they could use this year without all the extra things that never get used.
Then the next day is when I got the alternator replaced and Saturday was slated for new tires on the truck. Luckily we had received some cash which we could use for these and have money left over to get some things done on the wife's car too. Whoops! While getting the tires done the guy comes out and wants me to take a look at something. Wholly crap, my brake pads on the front are almost gone. This was not what I expected to hear and it dug into the cash so nothing is left to do anything to the car with, well , not without getting into our own piggy bank. But those babies where worn down to about the thickness of a nickel and a few more miles I would have been into the rotors which would have been ba ba ba baad. The rear brakes still have some life left in them, perhaps ten thousand miles. It's a good thing I decided to go ahead and get the tires when I did because we were going to the mountains to Boone North Carolina and then over to the Blueridge parkway. Had I waited on the tire bit, the brakes would not have been known to be that far gone. Being in the mountains on the parkway far away from anything would not have been the time to find out the brakes were shot.
Monday came around and the trip was a nice slow pace in which we stopped at Mast General store that has been around since 1800 something. Very cool place to visit but don't plan on buying a coat there unless your a skier. The coats were something like four hundred on up.
More days come and go and my brother and his family finally make it all the way from Switzerland. One of my other brothers came down and we got to feed them all before sitting down to a little guitar playing. I dusted off my old Bass and one of my amps and we had a good time. My brother from Switzerland and I had played together in the past but my brother from Eden and I, for some reason, had never played together before. Weird huh? Maybe it's because our music tastes were different way back when.
All in all this has been a good vacation but then I got one more surprise for the New Year I did not want ... a summons for jury duty on Monday ... again.
Man what a vacation holiday season this has been. I've been off since Christmas eve and a whole lot has happened in those days. On my way home from work Christmas eve my alternator went out on my truck. Had to wait until the twenty sixth to get it fixed for a couple hundred dollars I'd planned on using for tires.
We got some bad news that yet another family member passed away on the twenty fourth of December morning. This was sad as she left behind two college aged children and a cool husband.
We had a dinner party to attend Christmas Eve and it went nice and smooth. Then it was Christmas morning before we knew it and we opened up our presents - which one of them for me was a battery minder - and my son gave me the one for the bike. Been wanting to get one of these for awhile to keep those expensive batteries nice and charged up. The unit he got me will do up to five batteries at one time. After doing the gift deal we headed over to the Mother in-laws for breakfast and more exchanging of the packages . Looks like everyone got something they could use this year without all the extra things that never get used.
Then the next day is when I got the alternator replaced and Saturday was slated for new tires on the truck. Luckily we had received some cash which we could use for these and have money left over to get some things done on the wife's car too. Whoops! While getting the tires done the guy comes out and wants me to take a look at something. Wholly crap, my brake pads on the front are almost gone. This was not what I expected to hear and it dug into the cash so nothing is left to do anything to the car with, well , not without getting into our own piggy bank. But those babies where worn down to about the thickness of a nickel and a few more miles I would have been into the rotors which would have been ba ba ba baad. The rear brakes still have some life left in them, perhaps ten thousand miles. It's a good thing I decided to go ahead and get the tires when I did because we were going to the mountains to Boone North Carolina and then over to the Blueridge parkway. Had I waited on the tire bit, the brakes would not have been known to be that far gone. Being in the mountains on the parkway far away from anything would not have been the time to find out the brakes were shot.
Monday came around and the trip was a nice slow pace in which we stopped at Mast General store that has been around since 1800 something. Very cool place to visit but don't plan on buying a coat there unless your a skier. The coats were something like four hundred on up.
More days come and go and my brother and his family finally make it all the way from Switzerland. One of my other brothers came down and we got to feed them all before sitting down to a little guitar playing. I dusted off my old Bass and one of my amps and we had a good time. My brother from Switzerland and I had played together in the past but my brother from Eden and I, for some reason, had never played together before. Weird huh? Maybe it's because our music tastes were different way back when.
All in all this has been a good vacation but then I got one more surprise for the New Year I did not want ... a summons for jury duty on Monday ... again.
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