@#$ Mondays
Date: Oct 2
Mileage: 16
Ride type: Commute
Bike: LHT
Temp: 82p.m.
October mileage: 43
Year to date: 1652
ordinary morning trip. first mile of afternoon trip was sort of a doozy. within first quartermile form work, a college thang managed to almost pin me against a parked car. she had room on her left, but BOY, i was looked at her sidemirror a bit more closely than i would've liked. sometimes i want to mount little metal spikes on the side just to scratch those that come too close. then, maybe 50ft futher, a car passes me with an ugly black chick yelling "BOO" at me. i mostly laughed, but wished to myself that she die of a stroke sometime tonight. then, maybe a quartermile further, i took a quick left into a parking lot and sortof slammed across the lip of the curb. it was taller than usual, and low and behold part of the backend of the LHT fell off.
ends up the Carradice bag bracket i have mounted managed to pop off, well the wire portion that extends from the base, popped off (in this pic, that means the 2-prong wire support came out of the black base towards the left) and was sent scurrying across the parking lot. the bag stayed on b/c it's attached to the seat. it (the support) also managed to wriggle free from the support strap around it. don't know, it was all quite loud. i can obviously still ride with the bag hanging freely (afixed to the seatpost like originally-designed) but that's annoying. the support shouldn't have broken. i never carry more than workclothes, lunch and school papers, with nothing heavier. might have to call PeterWhite and get his 2cents, but he's not much of a talker, so i'm not looking forward to that.
i'm also pissed at humanity today. we're really no better than warring Chimpanzees. Jim gave a thought-provoking-but-depressing account of gun control today. guns are for the sole purpose of either killing people or animals, and neither is particularly cool. we can kill animals in a more humane way, and killing people is generally considered wrong unless it's for religious (Muslims, Jews, or Crusading Christians) or economic (Bush, Chaney, et.al.) reasons. and i hate my students at school too. they're bright, diligent and successful. they also have no souls or any greater sense of purpose other than making $$ and stepping on those that get in their way to do that, i.e. getting into name schools with other bright-but-souless teenies. i teach at a great school, from a "testing" perspective. i have the brighest of the best. BUT they're users. in fact, they're selfish users just like their yuppie, babyboomer parents. we're are at the crux of 25 years of the Republican Revolution, a selfish, narcissistic, vapid, greedy and morally-corrupt nation. sounds like Classic Rome or the great British Empire, hell like imperial Spain for that matter, doesn't it? our time has waned and we are on the decline. the babyboomers, through their greed and vapidity, will take us economically down the tubes with their "entitlements" and necessary penis enlargements and breast augmentations, while their own personal selfishness will allow us to NOT fund Social Security et.al. and THEIR president, the Imposter Shrub II, will-and has-made the entire world hate us more than ever. and i teach the offspring of these bastards.
happy Monday folks. it only gets better. Whew!
Mileage: 16
Ride type: Commute
Bike: LHT
Temp: 82p.m.
October mileage: 43
Year to date: 1652
ordinary morning trip. first mile of afternoon trip was sort of a doozy. within first quartermile form work, a college thang managed to almost pin me against a parked car. she had room on her left, but BOY, i was looked at her sidemirror a bit more closely than i would've liked. sometimes i want to mount little metal spikes on the side just to scratch those that come too close. then, maybe 50ft futher, a car passes me with an ugly black chick yelling "BOO" at me. i mostly laughed, but wished to myself that she die of a stroke sometime tonight. then, maybe a quartermile further, i took a quick left into a parking lot and sortof slammed across the lip of the curb. it was taller than usual, and low and behold part of the backend of the LHT fell off.
ends up the Carradice bag bracket i have mounted managed to pop off, well the wire portion that extends from the base, popped off (in this pic, that means the 2-prong wire support came out of the black base towards the left) and was sent scurrying across the parking lot. the bag stayed on b/c it's attached to the seat. it (the support) also managed to wriggle free from the support strap around it. don't know, it was all quite loud. i can obviously still ride with the bag hanging freely (afixed to the seatpost like originally-designed) but that's annoying. the support shouldn't have broken. i never carry more than workclothes, lunch and school papers, with nothing heavier. might have to call PeterWhite and get his 2cents, but he's not much of a talker, so i'm not looking forward to that.i'm also pissed at humanity today. we're really no better than warring Chimpanzees. Jim gave a thought-provoking-but-depressing account of gun control today. guns are for the sole purpose of either killing people or animals, and neither is particularly cool. we can kill animals in a more humane way, and killing people is generally considered wrong unless it's for religious (Muslims, Jews, or Crusading Christians) or economic (Bush, Chaney, et.al.) reasons. and i hate my students at school too. they're bright, diligent and successful. they also have no souls or any greater sense of purpose other than making $$ and stepping on those that get in their way to do that, i.e. getting into name schools with other bright-but-souless teenies. i teach at a great school, from a "testing" perspective. i have the brighest of the best. BUT they're users. in fact, they're selfish users just like their yuppie, babyboomer parents. we're are at the crux of 25 years of the Republican Revolution, a selfish, narcissistic, vapid, greedy and morally-corrupt nation. sounds like Classic Rome or the great British Empire, hell like imperial Spain for that matter, doesn't it? our time has waned and we are on the decline. the babyboomers, through their greed and vapidity, will take us economically down the tubes with their "entitlements" and necessary penis enlargements and breast augmentations, while their own personal selfishness will allow us to NOT fund Social Security et.al. and THEIR president, the Imposter Shrub II, will-and has-made the entire world hate us more than ever. and i teach the offspring of these bastards.
happy Monday folks. it only gets better. Whew!
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