So I have been out motorcycle shopping. I found one that I could afford and one that I want. The one that I can afford is a 1996 Honda Nighthawk 250cc:

The one that I want is a 2005 Honda Rebel 250cc:

It looks as though I will be buying the ’96 Nighthawk. I do like it. It will be a great starter bike. But when Holly graduates and has a job, we will upgrade to a better bike. Oh yes.

So my goal today is to buy a helmet and to have a motorcycle in our driveway by the time I have to go to work tonight. I will be heading off to the dealership in about an hour or so with $1000 to put down. They said that they can arrange to have it delivered to our house since I have never ridden a motorcycle before. But over the weekend, I will be heading across the street to the shopping center parking lot when it is empty and learning to ride it. I’m excited. I’ll post actual pictures of the bike after we have it. Yay.

Today I went to see an ’83 Honda Shadow. It was a nice bike. Old, shiny, black, windshield, runs, small, and comfortable. What else could you ask for. Oh yeah, a lower price. He wants $1600 for it, but that is not happening. Blue book value is $1250 and the bike needs a new rear tire (estimated value of $100+). If I can get him to sell it to us for $1000-$1150 or so, I think I will snatch it up. But only after getting my license. I plan on going to DMV this week to transfer my NYS license to a Hawaii one and taking the Motorcycle permit test. I feel confident about that. Then I am going to look into taking a beginners course for motorcycle riding. And if I do that, then I don’t have to take the DMV road test. Awesome. Anyway. Here is a picture of the bike I looked at today.

Ok, So I’m a little excited. We decided that with our busy schedule and lack of vehicles that we need to purchase a motorcycle. What this means is that I will be purchasing a motorcycle. What that means is that I will finally be transferring my NY license over to a Hawaii license and going to DMV to take a motorcycle road test. Sounds easy enough. I just need a motorcycle. So I have been looking all over for one. Of course one small problem is money. We can only afford a motorcycle that costs $1500 or less. I think it can be done. If all goes well I will have a motorcycle and a license to ride one in a week. Think I can do it?

On another subject, I am creating another ad for Karatedepot.com. It required me to take some reference photos of a naked female back. Well, mostly naked. She was wearing pants. I discovered that I don’t know too many females that would be willing to let me take photos of them topless. Who would have thought. So naturally my wife filled in. Take a picture, put it in Photoshop, add some text, the KD logo, and wham, you have yourself an ad.

Oh, and in case no one noticed, I added a new profile pic of me with my currently short hair.

I’m a little confused I guess. Maybe someone didn’t look at my profile. I hate to break it to ya, but I’m not Quentin. Sorry to disappoint.

Well, this past couple of days has been both a bummer and nice at the same time. Holly’s vacation has finally come around. We have spent lazy time watching the TV and eating cake and waffles and had time to be smoochy. But one thing that was unexcpected was my arm. While at work someone asked me what I did to my arm. I told them it was a mosquito bite. Little did I know that my “mosquito bite went from this:

To this:

All within 3/4 of a day. Well, at the time it wasn’t quite that bad. But as you can see it is now. So I went to the doctor. She measured how big it was, gave me some antibiotics and told me “Take two of these and call me in the morning.” So the next day I went back and she measured again. Hmmm, it got bigger. Damn. So they hooked me up with more antibiotics. I feel great. And by that I mean, my arm hurts and my stomach feels like crap and no food sounds good to me. I have been lounging around the house. Holly’s co-worker and class mate had a birthday on Thursday, so Holly invited her over for a yummy waffle brunch. I had been to the doctor that morning and unfortunately couldn’t hold myself up during bruch, so I had to go up and lay down. I feel bad I missed most of her visit. That night I called in to work. On Friday, I didn’t have to work, and I spent the whole day resting. Ha ha. Actually, I spent the morning at the doctor and the whold afternoon getting rid of our old fridge, a BBQ grill, and our old rug. To do that I borrowed a friends truck and drove said items all the way to the Salvation Army in Honolulu (where we were assured they would take our items) and immediately turned away because there was some rust (ok, a lot of rust) on the items. This was the second day I was wasting on this dumb fridge. So we drove back across the island and straight to the dump where we waited 30 minutes in a line just to get to the heaping pile of scrapped crap. Then we returned the truck back to my friend and headed home. We arrived back home around 3pm. Then I plopped on the couch and sat around like a lump. Today (Saturday) I sat around even more and watched mindless TV. Tonight I venture off to work where I will sit around wanting to do nothing and having to do “stuff”. What a bummer. My arm still hurts. I am still taking antibiotics, I still have no energy, my stomach still feels like crap, and I am constantly hot. How was your week?