hey everyone
tonight i'm in a teensy weensy "town" in arkansas where the biggest business appears to be the truck stop. palestine, arkansas, exit 233 off i-40. got unnecessarily stressed out driving down here thinking I was going to run out of fuel, but i think the fuel guage on the truck reads low to hopefull prevent you from doing that.
i have some nice pics for you guys but i need to remember to find my photoshop elements cdrom when I'm home next time so i can resize my pics to display here.
today(and yesterday) i took my bike out for a ride. yesterday I was in southern illinois and today like I said in ark; both of these places are really flat and I can go streaking around really fast on my racing bike. in flat open rural country like this you can really get away from it all, get miles away from the noise of truck stops and the highway.
rear wheel on my bike was gettting seriously wonky and my bike was wobbling to the point of being unrideable.
stopped by the roadside to see if I could do anything about it. maybe the tube was knotted or something. turns out that the problem was loose spokes. I tightened them up with such tools as I had available and voila, the wobbly wonkiness was gone, though the wheel is still way out of true.
one problem with riding around these wide open spaces is that people don't tie up their dogs and you get chased a lot. a good defense is just to squirt them with your water bottle. works great. i don't like gettin chased and they don't like gettin squirted.
yesterday night was the first time i finally saw some buffalo in my trucking travels. somebody had a few in pen a few miles out of effingham il. then today i came across these curious horses with donkeylike grey bands around their noses. I asked the farmer across the street from them what kind of horses they were and he said them are mules. them might have been the first actual mules i've ever seen. I don't know. there's plenty of horses in mass but not a whole lotta mules. then when I was heading back to the truck stop I saw a bald eagle flying around in a field off to my left. wow, i wasn't expecting to come across one of those today.
thinking about some buddhist stuff lately. there are no gaps in the dharma but it's easier to see in some situations than in others. easy if you're leaning on your bike watching spent rain clouds drift across the sunset, harder rush hour traffic, but that's just stuff that affects your perception.
i have deep streak of pessimism and the phrase "i can't" is rather toxically deep in my foundations of consciousness, but i'm trying to fight it. couple of days ago I was just driving along thinking about whatever and i had the thought "amina hasn't let losing her leg stop her from being sexy" and right when i had that thought, my mind just shut completely off and i was just sitting there in the truck driving along. just the consciousness of someone who didn't become and "I can't" person shut off the "I can't" in my mind; just shut it off like a light switch, if only for a little while. got to thinking maybe after a couple of years of trucking I'll see if they still have those jobs where you go over to japan for a year to teach english. that might be fun, then after i could head over to europe. well whatever.
heading on down to texas tomorrow to deliver some laundry detergent. whoopeeee
but really, if you have the will to, you can add some fun stuff to this trucking business.
aleikum salaam
lizardo
tonight i'm in a teensy weensy "town" in arkansas where the biggest business appears to be the truck stop. palestine, arkansas, exit 233 off i-40. got unnecessarily stressed out driving down here thinking I was going to run out of fuel, but i think the fuel guage on the truck reads low to hopefull prevent you from doing that.
i have some nice pics for you guys but i need to remember to find my photoshop elements cdrom when I'm home next time so i can resize my pics to display here.
today(and yesterday) i took my bike out for a ride. yesterday I was in southern illinois and today like I said in ark; both of these places are really flat and I can go streaking around really fast on my racing bike. in flat open rural country like this you can really get away from it all, get miles away from the noise of truck stops and the highway.
rear wheel on my bike was gettting seriously wonky and my bike was wobbling to the point of being unrideable.
stopped by the roadside to see if I could do anything about it. maybe the tube was knotted or something. turns out that the problem was loose spokes. I tightened them up with such tools as I had available and voila, the wobbly wonkiness was gone, though the wheel is still way out of true.
one problem with riding around these wide open spaces is that people don't tie up their dogs and you get chased a lot. a good defense is just to squirt them with your water bottle. works great. i don't like gettin chased and they don't like gettin squirted.
yesterday night was the first time i finally saw some buffalo in my trucking travels. somebody had a few in pen a few miles out of effingham il. then today i came across these curious horses with donkeylike grey bands around their noses. I asked the farmer across the street from them what kind of horses they were and he said them are mules. them might have been the first actual mules i've ever seen. I don't know. there's plenty of horses in mass but not a whole lotta mules. then when I was heading back to the truck stop I saw a bald eagle flying around in a field off to my left. wow, i wasn't expecting to come across one of those today.
thinking about some buddhist stuff lately. there are no gaps in the dharma but it's easier to see in some situations than in others. easy if you're leaning on your bike watching spent rain clouds drift across the sunset, harder rush hour traffic, but that's just stuff that affects your perception.
i have deep streak of pessimism and the phrase "i can't" is rather toxically deep in my foundations of consciousness, but i'm trying to fight it. couple of days ago I was just driving along thinking about whatever and i had the thought "amina hasn't let losing her leg stop her from being sexy" and right when i had that thought, my mind just shut completely off and i was just sitting there in the truck driving along. just the consciousness of someone who didn't become and "I can't" person shut off the "I can't" in my mind; just shut it off like a light switch, if only for a little while. got to thinking maybe after a couple of years of trucking I'll see if they still have those jobs where you go over to japan for a year to teach english. that might be fun, then after i could head over to europe. well whatever.
heading on down to texas tomorrow to deliver some laundry detergent. whoopeeee
but really, if you have the will to, you can add some fun stuff to this trucking business.
aleikum salaam
lizardo
Ah yes, here it is:
http://suicidegirls.com/girls/Salome/1617346/page4/#post11966295