I made the trip to the San Francisco Ad:Tech at the Moscone Center. It was a great trip for making new contacts and promoting the biz. We made a few side trips and a particularly good one was courtesy of my main marketing man JL. He sported a killer dinner at an SF landmark restaurant, Harris’ Steakhouse. Very nice. After that we posted up at great place called the Irish Bank. I had plenty of Bass and made some new friends that night.
The Rim of the World Rally 2006 is under way! Get on out to Lancaster, CA and check it out!
The in-laws were in town over the weekend and through Wednesay. It was great having visitors. On Saturday we had a good crowd of 17 people at our house. I handled the bbq for the afternoon. A lot of food was eaten, beers were consumed, it was a good time!
On sunday I got the chance to drive my in-laws giant RV. It is a bus style unit, 36 feet long. It is like driving your living room! It was cool.
I think a couple of punks launch a rock at my car on the way home yesterday. Or maybe it was a rock tossed up in the air by a truck. Who knows? Nobody knows… One this is for sure, I got hit in the windshield with a rock! I looked in my mirror and I thought I saw 2 figures moving around on top of a hill next to the road I was on, it was hard to see, there were a lot of trees and bushes plus I was going about 50 mph and looking backwards in my drivers side mirror. My window didn’t break. I did go back and get out of my car and look around the area. I didn’t feel like climbing up the hill. I just got a penicillin shot the night before and I was in no mood to do much. When I got back in my car I did another driveby and I didn’t see anyone around. But, I did see a CHP guy coming the other way. I flapped my arm out the window and he stopped. I got out and told him what I believed to have happened. He said he would call it in. I got back in my car and split. I was not feeling 100% so I left, I had no desire to stand around and wait for anything at that point. My window has a few small dings added to the collection.
All the guys from the office went to Opening Day yesterday and had a good one. The weather wasn’t so good but we sat in the loge seats and stayed dry. The Dodgers were down 8-1 and staged two rallies that got them to 11-10 but they ended up losing. We had lunch at before the game. You can’t beat their french dips. All good!
Check this out. One of my old skate buddies, Mike Collins, from back in the day made a cool skateumentary that you can find here. You need to login to MySpace.com to get to the video, I think. It is cool, lots of skating of course. Plus you get to see Mike Collins talk about what skateboarding means to him. Rock that shit!!!
Here is what I am up to lately. Clickety click to see my latest beast!! The handlebars are a mighty high 73 inches off the earth, the wheelbase is 102 inches. My car is 104 inches!!! The fork alone is 82 inches from crown to axle. Nice. It is easy to ride, turns take a wide, wide arc but that is expected. I built the main fork tubes out of 1 inch OD .065 steel tubing. The support tube for the fork is 3/4 inch OD .065. Adding a support to the fork keeps the fork from flexing to destruction. I may add a few braces to it to keep it as stiff as possible. I don’t want to bail from that high!! The rear part of the frame is from a GT mtb, the front half is a Murray. 2 people were kind enough to dump these bikes in the desert near my old house. I am going to add a rear brake and possibly a suicide style shifter if I can scrounge up some useable parts from my dead pile. Also a flat black paint job will complete the tall-chopper. I have named this one Sky-Jacker.
