Castle Shima

Sondra, do you think we can get a couple of plates that dont look as if someone wiped their ass with them?!
-- my comment to the waitress during Friday's dinner. She was grossed out by the dishes as well.

Tower View
Bullets and Bottles
This past weekend, I got to ride with another Ken.

Kenny Labbe of the US Postal Service team rode with myself and another 150 riders for a local charity event. Although Labbe may not be a household name as Lance Armstrong, it was still an honor to ride with a member of the team. Its abit humorous too since Labbe is the really a US postal carrier.

We had so much fun riding through the wind tunnels and the construction sites, but as with any major bicycling event, I ended up losing something. This time it was my temper.

On the 40th mile of the 45 mile ride, I was riding at roughly 17mph and leaned forward to rest my shoulders. As I leaned forward, a soda bottle flew past my field of vision and realized that it had missed the back of my head by a inch or so.

The teen that decided to take a shot at me was riding in a silver Mustang and laughing as the driver sped up. Suddenly found themselves caught in traffic of a two lane road. Then the driver began weaving in and out of traffic when they saw the man on the bike giving chase, trying to get away. At one point, the driver had to hold his lane because of the motorcycle he saw on the side of the road, thinking it was cop.

Unfortunately, when he saw that it was one of the event's safety motorcycles helping a cyclist with a flat, the Mustang cut through traffic again and escaped.

Even though I was up to 27mph and the traffic slowed them down, I knew I couldnt have caught up with the teens. On the other hand I did have a clear line of sight on the car and its passangers. If I had been carrying my pistol, I would have been able to fire the entire ten round clip into the Mustang.

I know it was my road rage flaring again. I know that the right thing to do would have been to get the license plate number, call 911 on my cell phone, and report an attempted battery. The driver's license would have been suspended as well as fines for both the driver and the passenger. That is, if the police bothered to persue the issue, which tends to be ignored unless there is physical harm or a casaulty.

As another cyclist told me, God will get them in the end. Quite frankly, I want first crack at them before Him.

Its too bad that something like this has to mar a good event, which ironically, was a charity for kids.

So parents, please warn your children. If they are inclined to give their lives so willing, then there are a few of us more than willing to take it from them.
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Dark By Any Other Color
This week's article from Tongue Tied has reader feedback about how the banning of the movie Song of the South. I didnt realize the main actor, James Baskett, was the first black American to ever win an Academy award.

Apparently people would rather see this movie as a racist media instead of one of the most renowned Disney period piece films.

Thank God I have a copy of the movie laying around.
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Out in The Yard
Party! Party! *THUDUNK!* Dude, you fell!
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If the pilot thinks you are too fat to fly, perhaps you should take the train.
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Fox News wants to sue Fox Broadcasting because of a Simpsons parody. Doh!
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Background Noise
The Radio Music Awards is on the television right now. Bleah.

Michael Jackson is giving some speech about a new collaboration going on with various artists. This is along the same lines as We Are The World.

Is it me or does Jackson look like a walking skeleton now? Ewww...

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* I will never forget those nights.
* I wonder if it was a dream.
* Remember how you made me crazy?
* Remember how I made you scream?
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