 Seems as though life is passing me by
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On the way to work this morning, I met a group of long time riding buddies as they were headed to the Bikes, Blues and BBQ blow out. Couldn't join them. Also missed the Arkansas rally last weekend. Geez! I need a vacation! All work and no play is making Ed a dull boy. Strange how life gets in the way of having fun. 
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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Hang in here, Eddie! Your days of leisure will come....eventually....I hope....for your sake! (...hmmmm...I didn't sound too sure about that, did I?!)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Also missed the Arkansas rally last weekend.
Well next year we'll just need to have the rally based in Hot Springs, come to your business, kidnap you and your bike at gunpoint and put a "gone fishin"...I mean "gone ridin" sign on your door. Believe me it could happen, many of us carry...  
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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A brilliant idea! 
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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"Strange how life gets in the way of having fun."
Amen to that. I have come to realize, much to my dissapointment, that being in a 100% commisions sales job. I am now never off the clock.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
Seller of fine automobiles.
Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
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Ed, take time to make time to enjoy yourself. It took a heart attack at age 43 for me to realise that life is to short not to enjoy yourself. Since then I've learned how to balance work and play. Go have fun 
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Bar Shake
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There's an old saw that goes: No one has ever reflected back on their life from their deathbed and said "I wish I would have worked more".
Look at your life and see what you will wish you would have done, and then do it. While you still can.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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On the way to work this morning, I met a group of long time riding buddies as they were headed to the Bikes, Blues and BBQ blow out. Couldn't join them. Also missed the Arkansas rally last weekend. Geez! I need a vacation! All work and no play is making Ed a dull boy. Strange how life gets in the way of having fun.
I can relate. I was out toouring 225 days last year and it'll be close to that again this year. Really cuts into the riding time, and it always seems that those days off are the ones nature decides to offer rain. Still, I'll get some riding in this week and next and I'll just bank the memories for later when I'm on the bus watching America go by.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Should be Riding
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Neil Peart methodology or is the reason he can is because of folks like you?
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Yep, pretty much. Load in starts at 8am for a 7:30 pm show start (3 acts). Backline gets an area to work in about 9:30 or 10 prepping for a 3 pm sound check. Every tour is different but most days are like this; bigger shows start load in earlier.
A few lighting friends who've worked with Rush tell me Neil gets his coach driver to stop around 7~8 am where he and his assistant/security unload the beemers and take to the highway for 7 hours, arriving in time to sound check and rest up for the show. His drum tech just dreams of riding like I do when I'm building the kit...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Only good riding I got in this summer was my Niagara trip. Went on some other rides but short ones. I spend 11 hrs a day at work. Worst part to me is a feel I am missing my dogs lives. When I was self employed I was with them all the time, they rode with me when possible. My grand kids too, but to a lesser degree as they will be around a lot longer.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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We are our own worst enemies buying into the corporate "what have you done for me lately" scheme that drives us harder for less, then one day we wake up and what the heck! we all bought into it, did not rebel or push back at all, so now we are stuck with it. As for me, i work hard but my corp time is on the clock, they don't like it i will go else where, life is truly way to short unfortunatley and we don't seem to figure that out until time begins to run out. Kind of sad actually
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary
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Until my wife is out of grad school (spring 2013), my nose will be against the grindstone. If the stubborn economy would turn around that would reduce my stress level as well.
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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hmm with the gdp issues as well as the issues in europe and the like i would not count on that to quick, IMO only of course, but i am in corporate fianance and country lending risk analysis so its my best hedge.
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
2013 T-Bird Storm and Luvin it!
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary
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I took a vacation last week and for the first time in years didn't take my laptop or blackberry. Liberating.
'06 TBA - Black, AI and Snorkel removed, K&N Drop In, Gutted Stock Pipes, 145/42, 2 turns out.
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I took a vacation last week and for the first time in years didn't take my laptop or blackberry. Liberating.
Next step (just a suggestion)... take a vacation from the TV. I find that quite liberating!
Live to love, love to live.
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