Some people are so gullable....

Yesterday I was tooling around the countryside on the bike and came upon a county deputy who had pulled over a small pickup with a trailer loaded down with brush. I slowed down to about 25 as I passed them and didn't think much of me doing anything wrong. Well, no sooner did I a hundred yards past them the deputy was on my ass. So I pulled it over and shut the bike down. The deputy stepped out of his cruiser and walked up to me and asked for my liscense and insurance. I obliged and asked why he had pulled me over. His reply, was that I had ran through a stop sign and my pipes were too loud. I asked which stop sign since there was none in the few hundred yards since passing him, and he said he thought I rolled through one over a half mile the other way. I complimented him on his amazing eyesight and explained further that I had been on this particular stretch of road for several miles and hadn't seen a stop sign since turning on to it. The deputy told me to sit tight while he ran my liscense so I pulled out a smoke an lit up, which really set this giuy off for some reason. He stompled back toward me all red faced and completely irritated telling to put out my smoke, but then stopped, turned about face and walked to his car. Several minutes later he returned handing me my liscense and insurance card. He then walked to the opposite side of my bike and stared at my pipes for a minute before telling me again that my bike was too loud. I told him I met state requirements for noise and pollution, and asked what the problem was. Believe it or not he then asked if he could take it for a spin, I was dumbfounded but responded quickly by saying I would only if he let me follow in close pursuit in his patrol car with sirens blaring. I really did ask him that, but during this exchange I started hearing people laughing and turned to see the little pickup and trailer the officer had pulled over previously sitting behind the deputy's car. Next to the pickup was one of my fraternity brothers (who I ride with quite often) and his wife just laughing there asses off. I was still in the dark about the cop, but they quickly revealed that the deputy was my bro's cousin who had just made the force. I thought this guy was acting a little funny but had no idea I was being set up. Come to find out later, the deputy himself has several pretty sweet bikes.

Since I am on the topic of my bike, I am getting ready for the summer riding. Tomorrow I am equiping the ride with a new set of bags. Will show pics soon. Well I have taken up enough of your time and it is a beautiful day again, so I will strap on the leathers and report back later with any @#$%ed occurrences.

Later,

DB

Why is my head itching?

EEEWWW!!!

DB

KC a great place to party...and eat BBQ

Wow, what a weekend. I just spent the last four days in Kansas City with around 1200 other psych major students. Now that might sound pretty drab and boring, and if there was a presentation to be heard or discussed it was, but as soon as a day's events ended that all changed. These people know how to party. Until this weekend, I would have said that frat boys were the only ones to throw a party worth remembering, but I was wrong. It seemed like the geek you sat next to during a presentation to during the day turned into the pole swinging diva after a shot of tequilla and a Long Island ice tea. Now before you swing into some wild assumption, this particular person was also being egged on by her boyfriend, but I think you get the picture. Plus, it seemed like they were bottomless pits. There was no end to the concumption, even after we were being excorted out at closing time. Most of these people partied well after four each night nad were up by eight to present. I am damn glad both of my oral presentation were on our first day, and all I had to do for our poster presentation was stand their next to it and hand out pamplets. But now I am home and back to business as usual.

I now only have a few tweeks to make to my final paper and prepare yet another presentation along with a powerpoint. Fortunately, this one only has to cover fifteen minutes and there will only be thirty or so audience members. The SWPA presentations had to cover around an hour a piece. My final paper is a literature review of peer-mentoring that covers a historical timeline, uses in the business world, and uses in elementary and secondary education, but its primary focus is peer-mentoring in th higher education setting. I had to read over 240 articles to find the fifty-three that I actually used and the paper topped out at thiry-six pages inculding references. Not the longest paper I have written while in college but by far the best and most rewarding. Well it getting late and I need some sleep before the week officially starts.

DB