In boring news, I have finally hired someone at the theatre. It has been about a month that we have been short handed. The grievance thing with our janitor is being sorted out. I have handed everything over to the professional grievance people. I faxed them and called them and gave them all the information I have on the situation. They will now deal with the union and possibly (most likely) some lawyers about the whole thing and that will be that.

In not-so-boring news, I bought a motorcycle today. I went over to Honda Motorcycles and bought a motorcycle. At the same time I got my insurance for the bike and registered for the motorcycle course given by University of Hawaii. Which is good, cause not only will I be able to get my state driving test wavered, but I will get an extra 15% off my insurance. Awesome. So now here is the shocker. I didn’t buy the ’96 Nighthawk. That’s right, I bought the 2005 Rebel. And do you know why? This is my logic of thinking. If I buy the ’96 Nighthawk, then the bike will not be warranted. Also, we would plan on upgrading to the Rebel sometime early in ’06 when Holly is graduated and we are not so tight on money. So we would then sell the Nighthawk (for not as much as we bought it) and buying the Rebel. Now If I buy the Rebel, then I get a warranted bike, I wouldn’t have to take a money loss for selling the nighthawk, the insurance cost of both bikes is equal, and if I put 1/2 of the money down that I was originally going to put down, then my monthly payments will still be only $60/month and then the other 1/2 of the down payment would be enough money to pay the monthly payments for about 6 or 7 months. This will get us through until Holly is graduated and money is not so tight. So, either way our payment situation is the same no matter which motorcycle we buy. The only difference being that if I buy the Rebel, we will have a new warranted bike and wouldn’t have to go through the hassle of selling and buying a bike in Feb (or whatever month in early ’06).

So there you have it. I now own a brand new 2005 Honda Rebel.

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.