Spontaneous Two-Wheeled Vehicles
Once again, I have nothing in particular to talk about, but I feel the need to post anyway. General update time...
There was recently a thread on the WKYN boards about whether or not people are planners and how it has affected their lives. As a general rule, I'm a flexible planner with both long term and short term goals, but I don't always have the details in stone on things.
This weekend, our plans were the same as they had been for every weekend for the last few months; some cleaning, likely breakfast out with some friends, and the one-off outing. This weekend's one-off was bowling. My school always does a faculty versus students bowling thing near the end of each quarter.
I've made a pretty good friend this quarter, and as it turns out, he and his wife are CF and totally get along with me and T. The four of us (actually 5, they had a friend with) did dinner and a movie for our one-off the weekend before, and that was also the meeting of the spouses. So S&L were at the bowling thing, and they live some ungodly distance from us/campus/the bowling alley/civilization. They ended up crashing at our place after bowling because it was near 2am and they were not up for the drive. We went to breakfast on Saturday and ended up deciding to sleep over at their place on Saturday night. It was just such a great weekend of general hanging out; grilling, movies, board games, booze. Awesome.
T has a 2005 1600 Mean Streak which has been sitting all sad and alone in our backyard because, as he found out only after purchasing it and selling his sport bike, that he's more of a sport bike kinda guy. So we've been talking about selling the cruiser for a while now, though we haven't gotten around to it. As it turns out, S&L have a cruiser, too (I don't remember what kind, though). We spent some time on Saturday checking out both bikes and we have plans for Memorial Day weekend now to work on T's bike and get it back into shape (change fluids, mainly) so we can go for a long ride together. I'm thinking we can pack a picnic lunch. I just found an awesome website with motorcycle road trips by state, and found a great day trip I'll be showing S tonight in class.
By the end of the weekend, T said he was actually getting excited about riding. I think the thing with cruisers is that they're better when you have someone to ride with. The sport bikes don't necessarily have/need that element.
I've always liked the cruiser, so I'm totally stoked for this upcoming weekend. :)
Also this week; black tie event. Fun to dress up, but it's freakin' country music all night and it's a Marine-focused event. I'm going to have to drink copiously to keep my eyes from rolling right out of their sockets. I'm getting all dolled up proper, though, by a stylist and everything. Pictures will likely be posted.
There was recently a thread on the WKYN boards about whether or not people are planners and how it has affected their lives. As a general rule, I'm a flexible planner with both long term and short term goals, but I don't always have the details in stone on things.
This weekend, our plans were the same as they had been for every weekend for the last few months; some cleaning, likely breakfast out with some friends, and the one-off outing. This weekend's one-off was bowling. My school always does a faculty versus students bowling thing near the end of each quarter.
I've made a pretty good friend this quarter, and as it turns out, he and his wife are CF and totally get along with me and T. The four of us (actually 5, they had a friend with) did dinner and a movie for our one-off the weekend before, and that was also the meeting of the spouses. So S&L were at the bowling thing, and they live some ungodly distance from us/campus/the bowling alley/civilization. They ended up crashing at our place after bowling because it was near 2am and they were not up for the drive. We went to breakfast on Saturday and ended up deciding to sleep over at their place on Saturday night. It was just such a great weekend of general hanging out; grilling, movies, board games, booze. Awesome.
T has a 2005 1600 Mean Streak which has been sitting all sad and alone in our backyard because, as he found out only after purchasing it and selling his sport bike, that he's more of a sport bike kinda guy. So we've been talking about selling the cruiser for a while now, though we haven't gotten around to it. As it turns out, S&L have a cruiser, too (I don't remember what kind, though). We spent some time on Saturday checking out both bikes and we have plans for Memorial Day weekend now to work on T's bike and get it back into shape (change fluids, mainly) so we can go for a long ride together. I'm thinking we can pack a picnic lunch. I just found an awesome website with motorcycle road trips by state, and found a great day trip I'll be showing S tonight in class.
By the end of the weekend, T said he was actually getting excited about riding. I think the thing with cruisers is that they're better when you have someone to ride with. The sport bikes don't necessarily have/need that element.
I've always liked the cruiser, so I'm totally stoked for this upcoming weekend. :)
Also this week; black tie event. Fun to dress up, but it's freakin' country music all night and it's a Marine-focused event. I'm going to have to drink copiously to keep my eyes from rolling right out of their sockets. I'm getting all dolled up proper, though, by a stylist and everything. Pictures will likely be posted.