My vacation winds to a close

Today is Friday. I go back to work Tuesday. I get to go back to being a Harley mechanic that lives in the Alps. Sounds awesome, right? Thats cuz it is.  Hey, I get to be proud, I worked hard to get here.

In the past few days, we have visited Aix les Bains, one of my favorite places in this country, home of an 11 mile long lake and a shitload of old people.

Nice, right? Then, yesterday, Daniel and I loaded the bikes in the car and headed down the hill and rode around Grenoble for a couple hours. Actually found a good burrito, and had some port flavored ice cream. Yes, port. Fookin great, it was.

Look real close, there we are

Today, we hang out here.

Gonna do this.

And then this.

Saw this bitchen car yesterday.

Ok! Question. How fucked is Khadafy? Answer? Totally. Other news. Scientists believe that they have found a planet that is largely made up of diamond. Neat, huh?

Ladies.

The Gracie family of martial artists, inventors of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and all around bad asses, have started 'Bully camps', where you ship your kid to California and he or she gets taught how to deal with a bully.

C-YA!!

Sounds great, but is this bully thing a real thing, or a made-up-by-the-news thing, like the summer of the shark in 2001? Remember? A shark bit a Mississippi kid, and the news took it and ran with it, reporting on shark attacks like crazy, until we were all too terrified to take a shower, much less drop a toe in the ocean. Did you know that there was not an increase in shark attacks that summer? Terrorist attacks, yes, but not shark attacks. So, are there more cases of kids being bullied now, versus when I was a kid, or is it the news making us afraid for our kids? I suspect its the news. These are the people, after all, who will break into your favorite T.V. show at a quarter after 7, and say something like,' Is there a threat to your safety at you workplace?' or ' Is your childs crib a killer? Tune in tonight at 10 and find out!' So you, doting parent, get to sit in a pool of your own flop sweat for 2 and a half hours to watch the news. They scare the shit out of you to get you to tune in. The more you know. Mark Twain said it best, he said it about newspapers, but I think it applies to T.V. news too, ' If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the paper, you are misinformed.'

C-YA!!