or "how I spent my easter weekend"

Snapped by a photographer on my way from the Rock Store in Malibu.

Sunday was a great day to ride. All the police were doing a saturation patrol on the 15 to vegas, and the bikers were out in force.
Beautiful weather, and lots of cool bikes on the road

Finally friday... And the road is calling.

Once again, many apologies for the long delay in posts. I find that time spent riding my motorcycle around LA seems to have a higher return value than sitting in front of a computer.

I'll be adding photographic evidence of said trips here.

On the work front...
Despite the current software cycle, I’d by lying if I said I was as stressed as the same time last year. Our department has more staff, and I find that I don’t have to do everything to get all that I’m responsible for completed, which is nice. Today we are finishing up the majority of our beta testing, and our test-complete day is today. I can already feel the urge to take off early, suit up and put some more miles on the triumph. I’ve managed to keep the flow of data from our group to the management contained to a web site, which has really made things run much more smoothly.

In other news I haven’t really been posting too much about the events I’ve been to lately, mostly just by phone post. a quick re-cap:

- Doc Martin’s 25th anniversary of acid house with DJ Pierre was off the hook! amazing show.

Movie Reviews in One Sentence:

- Transformers -- The Ultimate Summer movie; Humor, Action, and Gigantic Explosions; very entertaining.
- Ratatouille  -- Another slam dunk by Pixar; Stunning animation, and a great story.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- The Darkest HP yet; pre-pubescent angst meets ultra-baddies; tweens shall swoon.
- Wizard of Gore -- Another dynamite performance by Crispen Glover, strange, twisted, and very LA.
- La Vie en Rose -- Ultra depressing and tremendously sad, a must for francophiles; a rental for the rest of us.


Hot Track: ”Behind the Moog” by The Girth - Theodore Girthkins telepathically summons another funky house banger on Funkfield
Cool Site: pownce.com - Kevin Rose (of digg) new project site

On Saturday morning, the calm serenity that lay over my neighborhood was shattered as I sparked 900 cc's of British steel to life!

After a great deal of planning and scheming, I'm now the proud owner of a Triumph Thruxton motorcycle. It feels good to finally fufill the promise I made to myself that I would own a motorcycle if I lived in Southern California.

( You are mine! )

A few details:

1) I had the rear fender removed and re-positioned the turn signals.
2) I replaced the back wheel with a larger Metzler performance tire.
3) I installed Predator exhaust pipes and re-jetted the air box.

This has resulted in the following:

1) A very unique looking bike!
2) 14 Extra hp from the engine (around 83 HP total)

I look forward to diving deep into LA's true underbelly. Expect several posts regarding a few adventures from  the road.

Closer, Closer...very soon.

Oh yes, you will be mine...