posts about things that happen in real life
Sep 11 2007
Seven years ago today, Chad and I flew to New York City for my very first time. This is a super lame/boring/??? video I made about the trip. It’s probably the worst video you will watch all week.
Also, please note how much younger and less fat I look zOMG!!!
Aug 18 2007
Jul 6 2007
So… Maybe I’m a little jaded or something, but don’t you think a person would have gotten the hint that I’m not too interested in chatting with them by now?
I have no clue who this person is, but they’ve been on my Yahoo! messenger buddy list for a while. Here’s how tonight’s conversation is going…
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:08:37 PM): hello bor
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:08:43 PM): hello man
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:09:39 PM): hi
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:11:48 PM): cool bro
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:11:59 PM): u know, we havent really talked well
Hide Recent Messages (F3)
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:14:50 PM): u there ??
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:14:57 PM): yes
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:16:07 PM): are u in the UK ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:16:42 PM): no, us.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:16:48 PM): k
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:16:54 PM): wat u do ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:17:57 PM): not much.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:18:55 PM): really
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:19:07 PM): dont tell me u sit around all day
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:22:48 PM):
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:22:57 PM): got a wife ?
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:28:25 PM): u there /?
BUZZ!!!
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:32:21 PM): no wife.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:32:29 PM): um
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:32:33 PM): g f
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:32:37 PM): no
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:32:54 PM): um
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:33:00 PM): so wats up wiht u ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:33:15 PM): very little.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:33:43 PM): lol
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:33:46 PM): i can see
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:33:56 PM): so why dont u care for a woman ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:34:26 PM): too much trouble.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:34:39 PM): really
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:34:52 PM): so bro tell me, are u a mafia ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:35:24 PM): i don’t think so.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:35:42 PM): u dont
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:35:56 PM): well wats ur drive
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:36:38 PM): i have none.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:36:49 PM): k
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:37:06 PM): well i am into mafia stuff
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:37:37 PM): life is great
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:37:41 PM): life is sweet
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:39:22 PM): so tell me exatly wat u do bro
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:39:32 PM): we could be close u know
BUZZ!!!
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:44:17 PM): i mostly just watch tv.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:44:43 PM): so how do u get ur money to stay alive ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:45:59 PM): i get money from the atm, just like everyone else.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:46:41 PM): and wats the ATM ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:46:55 PM): cash machine.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:47:41 PM): cash machine?
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:47:55 PM): i dont understand tht?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:51:42 PM): you can look it up on the internet.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:52:03 PM): u tell me
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:52:31 PM): i’d rather not.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:52:44 PM): why ?
FANLESS (7/6/2007 10:54:18 PM): well, what if I make a mistake in my explaination of what an ATM is, and then you’re on some trivia television show where you can win millions of dolars if you can answer a question about an ATM, and you get the answer wrong because I misinformed you? I would feel bad about that.
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:54:50 PM): na bro
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:54:55 PM): it cool
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:55:02 PM): i am in Nigeria
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:55:13 PM): cat do dat here
fegoson47 (7/6/2007 10:55:18 PM): so tell me
fegoson47 has signed out. (7/6/2007 10:57 PM)
Jul 1 2007
There are so many things in life that I just don’t get. Like why do men have nipples? Or, why can’t people figure out the difference between “then” and “than”? Why do I get so annoyed by bad grammar, when my own grammar isn’t so polished? But at the top of my list of things I just don’t get has got to be… Why are people reading this??
Seriously? Half a million+ people want to see what I put on these innernets each month? (ok, fine, only 52,002 distinct hosts served, but still… You came back 10+ times?) You do realize that I am fat and lazy and really don’t care about this stuff, right? I mean, I only type the stuff that oozes out of my brain. It takes entirely too much effort for me to scoop out the good stuff. It might be worth it if I were getting paid or something, but in the case of this here web site/blog/waste of space/whatever you want to call it, I actually end up paying for it to be here.
Anyways, I changed the layout a bit because, believe it or not, I actually care a little bit about your well being and I felt that the previous color scheme might be a little too hard on the eyes. I hope you like this one a little more. I have a feeling it might be too wide. You should just get a better computer/bigger monitor. If you don’t like it, please bitch about it in your own blog, and be sure to link here so I will find your banter in my referrers!
Also, if you want to advertise here for the rest of 2007, it will only cost you one 8 GB iPhone. I’m not too good to sell out!
PS (and this is a very important PS): Yvette will flash you her boobs if you go to http://miamirhapsody.blogspot.com/! IT’S TRUE!! I actually can’t stop clicking over to there!
Jul 1 2007
Watching MX!
So, this might be pretty nerdy, but I’m fine with that. I am right now watching AMA Motocross from the Red Bud National in Buchanan Michigan, LIVE ON THE INNERNETS zOMGZ!!!
In detail (which is the nerdy part), I have the video playing in Windows Media Player via Windows XP on my iMac, thanks to Parallels. Then on my iMac’s 2nd monitor, I have the same video playing in Quicktime, but delayed a bit so I have an ad-hoc instant replay. I just have to move my head to the right a bit to see what I just saw again. The twist to this is that I’m actually not listening to audio that accompanies the video… I am instead listening to the live audio feed because I have a very non-gay boner for Jason Weigandt, (that was meant as a joke!) and, frankly, I feel that his announcing makes the racing a lot more exciting.
Finally, on my laptop, I am chatting with my buds (just make up a username… leave the password box empty), watching the lap times (I miss being able to color label the riders like I could with the Supercross timing thing), and looking at the track map and just getting annoyed by mototalk people, and extra frustrated that I can’t interact with them because I let my membership lapse and I don’t have $30 ear tagged for a renewal.
If watching MX on the net isn’t your cup of tea, you can watch the 2nd Motocross class moto at 6 PM on Speed!
So, that’s what I’m up to on this rainy first day of July. Come to think of it, this is pretty much how I spent 2 Sundays ago, too. And actually, I guess that if I’m going to paint a picture, I should tell the whole story (WHAT? I have no idea what I just typed!)… My MX Sunday actually started late Saturday night when I was trying to be asleep by midnight so I could wake up by 6 AM so I could watch FIM World Motocross via MediaZone.com, but I ended up falling asleep somewhere around 3! I woke up at 5:50, on the couch, so I loaded the video stream from Sweeden on my iMac (in Windows) and tried to watch it from bed. A few laps into the 1st MX2 moto, I fell asleep. I woke up many laps later, and Josh Coppins was quite a ways back. I think this was the 2nd MX1 moto, but I really can’t remember. I kept waking up, watching a lap or 2, and then falling asleep again. I still don’t know who won the MX2 overall, but I plan on downloading and watching the motos again later tonight, or maybe tomorrow.
I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL I CAN WATCH EVERY AMA MOTOCROSS/SUPERCROSS RACE LIVE ON THE INTERNET!! Even if it’s only the 1st motos like now. It gives me enough of a mental image of whats going on that I can run the 2nd motos in my head. Especially with Jason’s excellent announcing.
P.S. In making this post I pretty much missed the first lites moto. Updating the blog was a bad choice.
Jun 23 2007
Stephen Murray gets jacked at the AST Dew Tour
Bummer!
Jun 21 2007
Me: Jules (or Jewles, as I like to call him), did you know that Hitler started the Holocaust because a Jewish prostitute gave him syphilis?
Jules: I don’t think that’s true. Where did you hear that?
Me: Digg!
Jules: (eyeroll) That’s just a conspiracy theory.
Me: Yeah, right! You just have trouble believing it because you don’t want to believe that a jewish prostitute would give anyone syphilis.
…
Me: Everyone knows that a JEWISH prostitute would charge extra for that!
Jun 1 2007
FECK! I just had a whole bunch of stuff typed here about my new laptop, my busted knee and phone, but I accidentally hit the back button on my mouse and now it’s all gone.
I’m way too lazy to type it all out again so you get the nutshell edition! I’m an idiot for not saving often.
Tried to take a picture of construction finally happening at the 12th and Washington Starbucks today, but I just got snow on my screen and actually had to pull the battery to get it to function as a phone. My phone also stopped getting a working signal while I am at home a few weeks ago, and apparently this ailment has spread to work now too. In short, I am in dire need of a new phone. The problem is that the Apple phone doesn’t come out until sometime next month (oh hay it’s THIS month now!!) so I have to work with a mostly busted RAZR and wait for the iPhone, or take it and get a blackjack instead. I am very undecided on what to do.
Speaking of busted, have you seen my right knee lately? This knee has been giving me grief for 3 years now, and I have no idea why. As far as I know, I never injured it. I just remember waking up and being like “Oh hey, my knee is sore!” and it’s pretty much been that way ever since. Except sometimes it’s a lot more sore than usual. Like for the past week or 2! the dang thing swelled up and has been super sore/tender. Again, I have no idea why and I have no plan to find out why/treat the problem. I have faith that it will return to it’s usual lower level of pain sooner or later. It hasn’t been too much of an issue lately… I just try to stay off of it other than walking to work, which is super close. However, I am quickly running out of food so I might be having a lot of meals delivered if this thing doesn’t sort itself out in a hurry. A ride all the tori anus way to Publix at this point in time (and pain) is not sounding like such a great time. Maybe if they had a killer sale on ice cream or something it would be worth it. Otherwise, I’ll keep La Sandwicherie and Cheeseburger Baby on speed dial. Except… I have to limp outside to even make any calls! Hurry up with the iPhone already!! I’m getting hungry.
P.S.:
LOL SOUTH BEACH!! (or some beach)
May 28 2007
Live from in front of my building!!
Check out my ghetto setup! I couldn’t angle it to fit the camera in, but it’s sitting on the tripod in the background.
May 19 2007
You may remember Brandon being in Motocross Action a couple of years ago. And you may have seen him in Parts Mag and various local publications, but today he is on Racer X Illustrated’s website. I wonder if they know that this is the same guy that got drnk and went for a swim in one of the Lowe’s fountains!?
So much style!
May 18 2007
I like to start my stories at the start, but in this instance it’s kind of hard to say where the start really is. Taking it to an extreme I guess we’d have to go all the way back to 1989 when I had brain surgery twice in 2 weeks and missed like the first 6 weeks of my freshman year in high school. That eventually led to me leaving Yakima (and my parents!) at the end of the 9th grade and moving to Othello so I could be with all of my old friends. It was during my sophomore (or maybe junior) year that I happened to sit in on a presentation of Walla Walla Community College on college day or at a college fair or something. Hearing about their “Irrigation Technology” program stuck with me and after a 2nd senior year and still not having enough credits to graduate, I decided I was over high school and moved to Walla Walla. I started classes in the fall of 1994 and one of my classmates/new friends was Brian Weinmann. The following fall Brian had a new roommate in Brandon from Prosser. Brandon and I quickly became great friends. In the spring of 1997 Brandon graduated from WWCC and moved to Pullman to attend WSU. At the end of 1997 I moved to South Beach and after 8+ months of vacationing, I started working at Lazerland. That’s where I met Chad and eventually his sister Kim.
So fast forward to the spring of 2000, and Brandon is graduating from WSU. Somehow we stayed in touch through the years and I had been dying for someone from Washington to come visit me on the beach. As a graduation present from his family, Brandon flew to Miami to hang out with me for a week or something. I didn’t have a car so I asked Chad to make an airport run with me. Kim tagged along too. Matter of fact, I think we went in her car. That was when Kim met Brandon.
Kim and Brandon on the night they met.
Kim claims that she didn’t really like Brandon that much when she first met him, but it looks like she’s getting pretty friendly with him here. (hey, who’s that big guy on the left? NICE VISOR, DORK!!) Brandon flew home a day or 2 later.
On the 2nd weekend of December in 2001 I flew back to Washington for Family X-mas. Flights from Ft. Lauderdale to Seattle were crazy cheap! I mean, my round trip airfare was $105.50 and I told Brandon that he should come back down for a visit. His airfare was $111.50! My parents drove me back to Seattle so I could fly home and I met up with Brandon there. We flew to Florida together, and I had asked Kim to pick us up at the airport. She claims that when she saw him at the airport that she could tell that there was something different about Brandon and that she liked him then.
I don’t even know who that guy in the hat is! He just appeared in the shot.
Needless to say, a lot of Brandon’s time in Florida was spent with Kim. Then he flew home and after a couple of months Kim flew to Washington to visit Brandon. And then he flew here a couple of times and I think she went there one more time. All of a sudden 2 of my friends were a couple!
Well, by the start of 2003 we were planning Brandon’s move to Florida! It ended up being one of the greatest road trips ever!
So on May 14th, 2003, Kim and I flew to Seattle Yakima. My parents picked us me up and we drove across the Cascades to Yakima. We met up with Brandon at Miner’s. Kim went home with him and I spent a couple of days with my folks. Kim had flown to Seattle a day before me. On Sunday May 18th Brandon said good bye to his friends and family and embarked on a journey with a destination of a new life in Florida. I met up with him and Kim (and Sadie!) in Connell Washington and we drove to Coeur d’Alene Idaho. It was only 2-3 hours of driving, but it worked out as a good primer for the following 6 full days of driving.
Here we are on Connell Washington. That was 3 4 years ago today.
This is all MY stuff! I even added more stuff once I got to Washington. Like a box full of CDs that I left at my parent’s home when I moved to florida, and a case of Widmer Hefeweizen, my favorite beer which wasn’t available in Florida at the time.
NO TURNING BACK NOW!! (This is one of my favorite pics from the trip, so I had to include it.)
I think this was in Post Falls Idaho. We had a contest to see who could go the longest without talking. Naturally, I won that contest! Brandon said it’s hard to breathe without talking. Whatever!
We stopped by Wal-mart for Red Bull (and other things). In the following days you’ll see how Red Bull was a big part of the trip.
More pictures here!
May 5 2007
I just uploaded every picture I had in my phone to flickr. There were 76. I didn’t take all of them… Some were sent to me in messages.
Also, you may have seen a lot of them in previous posts.
Oh, and some might not be safe for work, even though I took them at work.
Sep 15 2007
Nelson BC, 1996
Here is a picture of me and Brandon with a border patrol lady at the Canadian border. We were on our way to a BMX competition at The Garage Skate Park in Nelson, B.C.
I think this was 11 years ago this weekend.
By FANLESS • Uncategorized • 1 • Tags: Back home, years ago., Brandon, IRL, Pictures, Riding