BMW Drivers

As everyone know the Majority of BMW drivers are w*&%ers (with the exclusion of Streak) now i used to think that it only applied to car drivers but I was wrong.

Yesterday I was on my way home and this short f*(kwit on BMW 1200 something or other was at the lights infrount of me. We both took and got past the traffic, then I got past said twat, at this point I was only thinking he was a bit of a prick as he had bought the bike matchign BMW canfus protective gear and helmet that matched the bike. Then as I was going past traffice that was stop he was right my ass. I mean his wheel was a cm from my back one. This is a bit off putting as I had reached a point where i decided that I didn’t want to be in the middle going onto a round about he did. So he blows past me.
Being on a sports bike I pass him on the next streight and then he sits between two cars trying to pass them both, to get passed me again and then he switches lane with only inches to spare.

Then this morning another BMW (online using the in good weather) rider blow past me, after blinding me on a streight that realy is very dangerous. This rider had thought I must show I a c%$t and buy all the BMW gear as well.

If you want to ride motor bikes get a desent one and not a f*&^ing BMW.

getting to work

Today I saw one of the most amazing views as I was coming to work. As I started to go the hill into Belfast, my eyes where meet with a Belfast covered in fog.
Thats not unusual but it was the way the fog had formed that was amazing, the hills behing belfast had no hint of fog and the scrabo hills (form newtownards) were surounded by fog but now on them. I hadn’t encountered any on the way in either.

It was as if someone had pushed the fog from strangford lough and but it over belfast.

Was a really cool to see

got to love microsoft marketing approach

Ok so Im a slave to the system, I work as network admin using server 2003 and windows xp. I’m pritty much a Microsoft user at home as well.
All that aside I still dont like the microsoft approach to things, it like being part of the borg from star trek. But at lest Micosoft do come off with some appsolute amazing marketing tacktics. The lastest one I’ve read is about how they are better then Lunix.

Ok so lets look at how microsoft are not better then Lunix.

Virus are more common on Microsoft OS across the range.

Microsoft have a history of relsising software that is not fit for purper, ME and Vista (full range)

No one in the IT industry want to tuch a microsoft of until at least SP1 is on the go

crashing.

Marketing department forces software out and trys (badly) to make Microsoft look like the dogs ball, and uses bulls*&t facts to get the job done. My personal favour was with vista trying to tell the world that it was good and there was no problem with it.
Ok Lunix is an open source OS and is constaly being up date but it has two major advantages ITS FREE and it WORKS.

First matach of the season

Ok so the rugby pre-season friendly on friday night didn’t accourding to plan. 

The night started well, I got to ards rugby ground for about 6.30 and we all went out for our worm up.  It started to rain.  Not a problem it is Newtownards after all and we expect this sort of thing.  we do the worm up and it goes well.

Match time come round, 7.30 kick of, the Reg does his bit about the rules etc and we get under way.  It starts well for Bangor for the frist 15 minutes we are running at 200%, cometting well and looking strong everywere.  But then it all starts to fall appart.  Ards back line get quick ball to the wing and they are in for a try.  It was a tight match the would way through it  and you see the review of the match here .

The one major down side to the match was the ref.  As it was a friend he was form Ards club and boy could you tell he was.  Every time we started to build mamentime he blow up, and there where time it was for f*&k all.  I mean he pind one of the my team mate for tackeling on the ards players, and came of with some bullshit about my team mate was off his feet.  Also during the game at two different points Bangor had men down injured, its rugby it happens, but when the ref notices he normally stops play until the play is back on this feet or has left the field.  Not this twat, 3 to 5 minute are players where on the deck and it was only when the nearly got stood on that he stopped paly. 

The worst thing about the ref was that when he was telling you what he was pinning you for it was like being shouted at by an old style army sargent major.  I mean it was like being brough to the headmaster office in primary school.

F*&k it its over and done with and the it a new week for training etc.

Getting to work

Today I probable had one of the best runs into work in Months. 

This was for a few reason, 1) it was dry.  By dry I mean it wasn’t raining, but parts of the roads where between wet and damp. 2) My dads bike felt perfect, you know when everything feels right and you just know that it is perfect. Finaly there was hardly any traffic which meant that I could cruse between 55 and 60 mph, until I got to 30 zone and then it was speed limit time.

God it was nice to get to work like that.

Rugby time

Ok so its that time of year again.  I’m training twice a week and felling fitter and stronger then ever.  So far no injuries realting to rugby, but that could all change next Firday.

I’m on the squad to play Newtownard.  It a major gruge match as Newtownard is the nearest town to us and everytime we play its a hard match. I’ve only played against Ards once before and that was a few years ago.  I wasn’t as fit as I am now, but it was hard going.

And on the down side my boots (only a year old) are pissing my off.  One fo the studs came out in training last night, and I tought that the screw section might have been broken, but I was wrong.  I clean it out this morning as I was going to bring them to a shoe repaire shop to see if they could do anything about it and discovered that the whole screw section was out. That was better than I though, grabed a spaire stud and screwed it in. When the strud was in place I gave it a bit of a tug and out it came. 

Now I’m no stud expert, but I better that this means a new pair of boots.  I really hope not as they are only a year old.

Back in the saddle again.

Ok so its about 3 weeks since I did an inpression of a young clark kent learning to fly.  Since then I have driving 4 wheels.  Yes it was nice to have metal around me for safty and the ability to listen the music on the way to and home from work.  BUT THANK GOD I’m back ont two wheels.

So my dad very kindly (or stupidly on my last years recond) has lent me his limited edition 1987 yamaha FZR 750.  This is a lovely bike, a race at hart and soul with no signs of age (give a few months). 

On the way to work this morning while getting use a not only a new bike a different manufacuter altogether I notice that I was leaving more of a gape and my speed was down a bit.  This wasn’t deliberate it was just happening.  I didn’t tey to push my luck at all in any situation or two reason.

1) My wife isn’t over the moon about me being back on a bike.  This was proven by when she told me that her dad had give up ridding a motorbike when he came off and though that you only have so much luck, and she didn’t want to be on her own.

2) The bike is on lone.  It not mine.  I am aloude to use it until I can afford to get a new bike or fix up the very very very badly damage 600 that is in his garage.

So hears to a new start on the bikes.

Is it a bird? Is it a plain???

Nope, it just IB doing his supperman impression,  again.

Thats right foke I did it again.  I came off my motorbike in style.  This is what happened.

I was driving home from work and in true Northern Ireland style it had been raining from about mid day ( I said driving,  it was more like aqua plaining with skill).  So I was crusing along a 1/2 mile streaight only doing 45-50 mph in a 60 zone, mostly due to the weather but also I was a bit consurned about the trye pressing in my font tyre.  So I’m cursing alone aobut 20 feet (maybe more) behind a Honda 4×4 and happy with the way things are going.  Then I see breaks light of the honda come on.  by this stage he was was the end of the straight and I thought that some in front of him had paniced when they came to a connor  and I start to apply my breaks, as you do.

That when things strated to a wrong, badly wrong.  Remeber I’ve been riding from about 2004 and it always raining in Nothern Ireland so this shouldn’t be a problem right??  WRONG.  As I start to break I feel the bike slide, now I’m think S*&t I might hit this car in front (bering in mind that 20 feet in the wet will close down pritty quick when you’r sliding). Nope that not going to happen,  about this time I can fell the back end start to come round, now Im thinking oh f%^$. I know at this stage I should have let off the breaks, grabed the cluck and started to apply the breaks agian slowly, but I panic, I didn’t any of this because all I could see in my mind was that I was going to go into the back of the honda, not about 15 feet away and I appeared to be stopped. 

The back wheel keeps comming round and now I can feel the front start to turn as well, at this stage I knew i was off.  next thing I know I’m hitting the ground and my head is rolling arround in my helmet, all I can hear is the gravel hitting the out side of my helmet , after about 5 second I’m motionless and the world has stoped spinning, I know I’m not dead as I’m still breathing and sound is comming in thought the helmet.

Next thing the guy from the Honda and the girl from the car behind is comming over check if im ok.  Which I must admit is very nice of them.  They wouldn’t let me get up at first incase I had a back injury, which luckly I didn’t have, I knew this as I could wiggle my toes.  I then took the helmet off, I know it was the wrong thing to do but it was the only way I could answer the man from the honda’s questions. He asked my if i need an ambulance and said no, as I didn’t see the point in wasting the ambulances time.

I called everyone to let them know what happen, so in the 15 -20 minute it took my dad to get to me the man stayed to make sure I was ok, which I was glad of.  I also took a look at the bike.  I could list whats wrong with it, but it’s short to list what right.

The bike engine runs, the break leaver and cluch leaver are in tacted, wells are good and the fame is sould.  Appart form that it totally f*&$ed.

And to top it off I have to use a car for the foreseeabel.  At least I’m getting at a supperman impression, but I still need to work on the landing.

Death Of Micheal Jackson

Incase you’ve been in a different universe for the last 3 weeks or so, some of you might have noticed that Micheal jackson is dead. 

It a shame he is dead as he made some really good music, no matter what you thought of his personell life.  Did he do it ? didn’t he do it?  We will never know, and to be honest I dont really care.

For about 15 years now I’ve not listent to any of his music, reasons (1) during my teens I did want to listen to any of his stuff as it was seen as childish and I was growing out to be a man, (2) after years on not listening to his music I forgot about it.

So I was round at my fokes having dinner the other night and my brother was there with a copy of the BAD album.  When he told me it was his I said “I’ll be having that thank you very much”  So I’ve been listen to it agian and again and again as I drive the to work in the car (I broke my bike agian).  And it true, MJ really did make some of the best pop songs around.

As it had been about 15+ years since I had last heard the album I got a supprize Not only did it have Dirty Diana (this has some of the best guitar work for it time) it also have smoth criminal, that has one of the coolest videos.

Any way no to the bit that really fucking my off.  Yes he was without a doubt one of the best musicans of our life time, yes his later years where surrounded in contravesory.

BUT FOR GOD SAKE LET ME REST IN PEACE.  The worst thing about his death is that it going to turn into an other Princess Diana.  Where 10 years after her death people are still going  about how it effected them.

Death of Team mate

I got a reather strange text message from my rugby coach on Monday telling me that there was a funneral on Thursday and all where ask to attend.

At the time of the text I was getting of a plan to attend the Citrix IFORUM in Edinburugh.  So when as my wife to check out the club website and see what was going on.

When She told me who it was I was shocked,  it was one of the guys i trained with, he was only 31 years old.  I then phoned my Coach to find  out what had happed. He told me that they where playing touch and he had just scored a try and then had a massive hart attack.

I attended his funneral on Thursday Morning.  Everyone who was there was still in shock over what had happened and couldn’t beleive it.  He will be sadly missed at the culb and at training.