Return-Path: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:05:55 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: east@dnrc.bell-labs.com Sender: east@dnrc.bell-labs.com From: "Nikki O'Quinn" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: EAST digest 437 X-Comment: East Coast Motorcyclists Mailing List On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Dave Petke wrote: > If a newbie can add $0.02 . . . . A fresh perspective is always appreciated! > In defense of Martyn, after all the talk about long distances, lack of > vacation, and who flames who all to hell . . . . It's a lot of work to put > these things together, and you can't please everybody. I believe that is the moral of one of Aesop's fables... > For me, it's all summed up in one moment . . . > > Bugger the telephone, the bank, the tax man, and even my clients who > couldn't even format a floppy if it were the only thing that would rescue > them from the bowels of hell. . > I sit in the driveway before a big trip (doesn't matter where I'm > going), on my loaded down bike, engine idling away. . . . I put on my helmet > and get a grin so big, a plastic surgeon couldn't get rid of it. . . . and > that's what it's all about. . . > > Am I the only one who does this? Nope! :-)) I am intimately familiar with that feeling! Even blowing a shift lever seal on the way to RCR VI couldn't wipe the smile off. I bought a quart of 90WT filled 'er up and pressed on. I also enjoy figuring out the best route to get there. Not too much on the super slab, not too far off the beaten path. Enough twisties to make it interesting, but not exhausting. Nikki O'Quinn DoD #1517 nikki@dma.org '86 R80 Albatross ah661@dayton.wright.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A spirited woman will be a vexation as a wife." - Solomon from Proverbs "That guy doesn't know the half of it!" - Dave O'Quinn