Today is the day!
It’s like moving day, innit?
I’m transferring my domain and hosting to a new host and registrar and, with that, will come the required site outage for a few hours to a full day.
So…if you happen to stalk stop by here at all in the next day or so and don’t see my site, fret not. I’ll be right back on the WP 2.6 platform with a snazzy new template and a whole bunch of new stuff you can dig on.
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Really?
I mean, geez. I know that Caucasians are the minority in Harrisburg but has it really come to this?
Our relationship began in March.
I posted an ad on Craigslist looking for the perfect match.
And a couple weeks later, we finally met at a place in York.
It was love at first sight. And now- I can’t go a day without seeing her. 
My scooter is the best acquisition I’ve made in the past ten years.
I appreciate it more than my iPod. More than my disc golf discs. More than my lapt..er, maybe not as much as my laptop…but nonetheless. Owning a scooter for transportation around the city has immeasurable benefits to being stuck in a car all the time.
I know I’ve wrote of this before- but I’ve never been one to shy away from redundancy so here are a few more reasons that riding a scooter is better than driving a car-
- I get FAR fewer parking tickets on my scooter than I do in my car. Just today, in fact, I had to go down to city hall to see good ole John with his bowlcut to pay one of three parking tickets I have out there in order to stay off of the ‘boot list’. I had a few errands to handle which required pickups and dropoffs so I opted to drive my car. After paying my parking ticket, I stopped over at Roxbury’s on State, plugged every quarter I had in my pocket into the meter and went inside. I came out to smoke a bit later and sure enough- there was that ugly green envelope on my windshield. When I’m on the scooter, I just park that sucker on the sidewalk. And there ain’t no meters on the sidewalk.
- I spend five dollars per week on gas to drive many, many miles more than I could on five dollars in a car. Seriously. Five bucks. Ride it every day and get probably sixty five or seventy miles out of every one and a half gallon tank.
- Did I mention less parking tickets?
- It’s a very social way to get around. Seriously- at least twice every time I’m out, someone stops me to ask about gas mileage, license requirements, comfortable amounts of distance to drive, etc.
- You see more on a scooter. It’s amazing how much more I notice while on two wheels compared to being boxed into a car. Unfortunately, I notice the piss-poor driving habits of many drivers- specifically ones yapping on their cellphones. But it’s a great way to really see the city.
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I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said “Sit down” I stood
up.
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn’t sail but she sure could
sing,
I pushed B-52 and bombed ‘em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on
standing
I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to
landing,
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said “Come down” I threw
up
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it’s really hard to
hold your breath.
I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the cosmic kid in full
costume dress
Well, my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little
place in the stars
And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car
I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but when they said “Pull down” I pulled
up
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