THE NEGATIVE REACTION

I WISH

Cody came back and we had an AWESOME weekend to finish off his visit. His flight was at 12:15. We got to the airport early and of course his flight was late. It was tough for me to see him go. Life would be much easier if he still lived here in Minnesota. The airport thing is getting harder on me emotionally. I guess I should just buck up and deal with it, but sometimes I guess shit just isn't that easy.

I wish I had more time to spend with my son. I already have regrets about Karis getting married and moving away. Although the stress in my life is considerably less, not seeing my son gets hard. This must be the trade off I will have to deal for a long, long, time. At least I have a great support system in my finace.

The "What The Fuck" quote of the month goes hands down to Karis. She called my employer and told Gail (one of the owners) that, "It's Karis, you know, the one Karl has said all those great things about." Thanks for confirming to my boss that your still totally fucked in the head. Gail was pretty shocked by what she said. "Why would you SAY something like that to someone's boss?" "What was she thinking?" Ummm Gail, that's easy - she doesn't. More and more frequently I've found out.

I wish I had a notebook computer. Then while I'm in my car and thinking about all the crazy shit going on in the world, I can drop some SERIOUS deep thoughts. As it stands, I get back to my office after hearing Dennins Prager and just go blank. Perhaps when we get our basement room finished, then B and I will have our computers set up and doing that will much easier.

Oh well - did I mention I got my board together and it looks pretty good. I'll let you know how skating goes this week. B already warned me that I better not break anything prior to our wedding June 4th. It's going to be hard for me to get past being a pussy and not taking chances. Yeah, I don't want to slam. But then again - I also want to push myself. Getting back into skating is going to be more of a personal goal for me. Getting back what I once had - and then pushing it a level further. Just feeling a personal achivement is what I want. Do it for fun, do it for myself.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh more projects to keep me busy as well. I want to start a magazine about tranisition skating only. Pools, ramps, vert. No mundane street skating. Yeah handrails and ledges are cool. How many times do I have to see somebody do the same trick over and over? It's getting to a point where it's bascially add more steps, longer rails. Yippey skippy dee. I think vert and transitional skating is what separates the good from the bad.

Project #2 - Start a company that deals with public places that skateboarders have "ruined". I saw a local TV station do a piece on a company called "skatestoppers". They put up stupid looking clamps and metal hindges so skaters cant grind ledges and pinic tables and the such. I want to find a better alternative that would incorporate exisiting and new construction that skaters COULD use and it would not affect the objects being used. I've already come up wiht the material I'm going to use and will contact several companies.

Project #3 - Start another company that is a mobile repair service. This has come about due to the fact that we may be losing ALL of our licenses with the carriers we rep for. Verizon, Nextel and T-Mobile are all threatening to yank our licenses if our numbers don't come up in the next few months. I'll have to talk with Tom to get the specifics.

Alright - that's all I got for now. . . . . .

LATERS EVERYBODAY!