To The Metal

Big news of the day is the alleged death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of US Navy Seals. The government reports a DNA match, has handed us some footage of a bloody room, and says he was buried at sea according to Islamic law. That’s fine and dandy. Now that 1 terrorist mastermind is dead, what about the rest? International terrorism based in radical Islam did not die with him – so what’s the plan? Do we pack up our tents and go home? Do we go underground and continue the mission behind the scenes? Just because we’ve cut off one head of the hydra – there are still plenty more out there. Did eliminating him create more terrorists in the name of justice? Will there be a retaliatory strike against our homeland as a result of the death? What’s the plan, Barack? I’d definitely like to buy a drink for the team that pulled the trigger, but I can’t say I feel any safer now than I did before news of him going for a permanent swim.

A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of Cocoa in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watched as he wiped a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his Hot Cocoa. ‘What’s the matter, dear?’ she whispers as she steps into the room, ‘Why are you down here at this time of night? The husband looks up from his Cocoa, ‘It’s the 20th anniversary of the day we met’. She can’t believe he has remembered and starts to tear up. The husband continues, ‘Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating? I was 18 and you were only 16,’ he says solemnly. Once again, the wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and sensitive. ‘Yes, I do’ she replies. The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. ‘Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?’ ‘Yes, I remember’ said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continued. ‘Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, ‘Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years?’ ‘I remember that, too’ she replied softly. He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, ‘I would have gotten out today.’

Hopped on the bike around lunch time, headed into Jersey via the back roads from Unionville, NY… ended up going in a big circle at one point but then landed on Sussex Cty Route 519, took that until I hooked up with 94 south. I took that to route 80 West, and after crossing the Delaware took a little break. I grabbed route 209 north, and took that up through PA, past Bushkill Falls and back into NY over the Dingman’s Ferry bridge. That hooked me up with 206 again, which I took north back into PA (crossing the Delaware for a 3rd time…lol). Took 209 back into NY where I hopped on 84 a bit outside Port Jervis, stopped for gas in PI and now I”m thoroughly enjoying my couch. Not too many retards on the road that I saw today besides the 4 girls in a Nissan as I was trying to make my way through traffic going over the mountain on 84. These cunning runts decided to pull out in front of me without looking, then when realizing the tractor trailer ahead was going slower than they wanted to – brake checked me and pulled back into the left lane. That’s when they FINALLY noticed me and started to pretend I wasn’t right there praying I had a claw hammer to put through their windows.

My longest ride in some time – my hands are tingling, but damn it was worth it. 🙂

For the past 2 years I’ve lived in a cellular dead zone, so I needed to pick up a Verizon Network Extender to get service.  Essentially it’s a small cell tower that routes all my calls over my Internet connection.  It has worked well until the past few weeks where I started to get static and then I lost the GPS link, and finally it could no longer connect.  I put in a call to Verizon, explained the issues, they had me run a few checks and without hesitation – are shipping me out their brand new 3G Network Extender.  I know a lot of people who complain about Verizon – and even I have had issues in the past related to crappy phones, but overall – there’s a reason I’ve stuck with them for over 10 years now – and the service I consistently get from them is it.