Frog DNA and Fish Tacos

So I'm sitting in my apartment sweating mind you due to the fact that I'm on the 8th floor and well....heat rises. Anyways I had a craving for some Taco Del Mar down the block so I put my pants back on because walking around in boxers might not go over well in public and off I went. I took a second to say hello to Mt. Rainier and began my urban absorption of Pacific Ave. I love the city. I got to the store and I was greeted by a nice fellow with whom I placed my order with. That in itself isn't weird just the young woman at the table behind me was. She saw that I have tattoos running the length of the back of my arm. "OOOOH I bet that hurt!?" she says. Of course I made a quick assessment of her hotness level and kindly replied " Yeah it sure did!" I don't know what started it or if she was fucking with me but she began to fire all these odd facts and conspiracy theories at me. It was crazy !! She asked me if I was a member of the band called "Band of Horses" because I had a BoH tee on. She then told me she was stung by a bee once because she was wrestling a boy at school...then told me about a species of ant that seeks out human flesh to consume and not only that he talks to his other ant buddies and they plan then conduct "flesh raids" on villages ...somewhere in the world I didn't catch the name. I was so amazed by this yet freaked out at the same time I mean I couldn't wait for my fish tacos yet I kinda wanted them to take a little bit longer for fear of missing more of these revelations. The final factoid dropped on me was about a frog in I think North America that you can freeze completely in a block of ice Then you can thaw this frog out and he/she will still be alive due to there being a chemical in the frogs blood that keeps froggie from freezing. Now that in itself isn't the best part ..the best part is that governments are trying to harness this power and splice this chemical into human DNA so lets say astronauts won't freeze or they can be frozen for deep space travel. But what this young lady thinks is that whatever government or country harnesses this technology they can rule the world by somehow through more science freeze the continents they don't like and with this chemical injected into "ice troops" they can overthrow warmer people.

I got my taco to go and bid her a good evening. In hindsight she had very pretty eyes.

Is There Anyone Out There!?

Is there anyone out there that follows this blog ? If there is thank you. Also on a side note have a wonderful weekend! Its gorgeous here in the Pacific Northwest so enjoy it while you can. Tell someone that your thinking about them today and that you care about them. If your near her hug your mommy today....tell her that you love her as well. Go somewhere that overlooks something right before sunset and enjoy. It can be a building or a rock cliff or a treehouse ...use your imagination. Make someone breakfast tomorrow ...or at least coffee. Surprise your lover with a highschool makeout session in a car in the parking lot of the movies.....see where it goes.

Smile.

Find the song "Tennessee Whiskey" get it and listen to it...then go out buy some Tennessee whiskey and California wine and "sure have a good time!"

My City

I was inspired by a blog I'm following to post some pictures of Tacoma. I'm falling in love with this city.

These were taken in my neighborhood

Views from my awesome as hell apartment.

Thanks for the inspiration Ms. Jensen

What are you doing!?

You know what I like and crave relationships. I love to talk and entertain people meet new people and such. But for some reason I haven't been doing this for awhile. I would sit in my apartment alone and think "I can't go out and sit by myself ....I'll be that creepy bicycle guy in the corner". You know something.... even though I'm a guy its hard being alone and not having someone in your life on a regular basis. I need that.... we all do ...its nature versus nurture baby and I want some nurturing sucka!

I know I know your thinking Jesus man all your blog entries are sad and boohoo ...well I say no more! I live in an awesome, gritty, beautiful city and I'm going to take advantage of it. Thursday night movies at the raddest joint called the Red Hot ?! Heck yeah! (bartender bought my beers! I love girls with tattoos!) I'm going to start showing you the American dream from a bikers point of view ..from an urbanveloists' point of view. I'm going to share with you my everything like always. Case in point I'm still alone and without friends due to there jobs that take them to foreign places and such but I'm making new ones. I'm still without love in my life ..pure love the kind that makes you gooey inside and warm with want and feelings of being wanted...updates to come with that as well.

So in closing my travelers I will share with you this: I need to treat my life like a drug .....become addicted to this drug ...grow it then peddle my drug on the grit city streets to get others addicted to it.

P.S. Tall Girl why can't we be friends again?!

Being Alone and the sense of direction

I hate that feeling that you get when your alone. Not alone like i have on one in my life but "Alone". I live alone I have no roommates or live in girlfriend or sweet lil puppers that needs me to live and be taken for the poops. It makes me depressed and then in turn effects my relationship by manifesting venting sessions and snide comments or hurtful accusations. I analyze things that need not be and turn them into horrible bickering sessions that before you know it something hurtful has been said.

Its selfishness really I AM A SELFISH PERSON! I have the ability to be truly loving and warm and confident and well just as one person said it " climable". But when my immature ADD self has no hobby or constructive activity that occupies my mind and body I get lonely and bored. Which in turn becomes needy and wanting. I've thought about hypnosis. I want my bad thoughts department in my brain to be wiped out and then I can have a clean slate and be the person I know is awesome.

But that won't repair the damage that my selfishness has caused ...that my friends will take time. I know I can love and imbue that sense of warmth and comfort and overall big bear protection that women crave and need like a cat looking for the warm towels just out of the dryer. They kneed the towels with there eyes half closed settle into the warm pile and purrr with utter content. That is until the hyperactive destructive brat shows up and squirts that comfy cat with a water pistol.

I need someone to take away my water pistol.

Wheel of Fortune

Sometimes I feel like that contestant that wait's patiently for Bob to say " COME ON DOWN". Then slyly bidding 1 dollar just so I can win and get up with Bob give him a man hug and behind him opens your fate. Plinko.....thats your challenge. And you walk up to it confidently knowing full well this is your game. You have studied the very bounce and angle of each and every Plinko puck. You get three Plinko pucks and you skillfully play the first two. The crowd is going wild they have never seen such a comfortable and loving player/couple. Then all of a sudden you get complacent or cocky. You abandon your strategy and choose another Plinko puck path. And you fail .....miserably. You move on with some door prizes and some memories. And you begin to think about the decisions you have made and what could have been and should have been. You remember how loved and wonderful you were up there slinging your Plinko pucks. You remember how natural it was.

Kinda like life huh?

Jolted

We all have stories or memories that jolt us awake at night or make us quickly and violently shake our heads to clear the memory of such an event in our lives. I had a jolt the other night... I was back in Iraq remembering the fact that I forgot my clear-lensed glasses so I could see clearly without tears flooding my vision as I rode in the gunner's hatch of a an up-armored "hummer". I remmeber the three men with AK's and RPG's that in the middle of the night decided it was time to shoot at me ....and I remember depressing the trigger of a light machine gun with a laser clearly painted onto the chest of the center man and effectively cutting these gents in half.....I remember dreaming about the 6 hour "firefight"that ensued that night and the bullwhip snaps that are indicative of bullets flying ever so closely to your own head...the "ting ...ting...ting" of bullets slamming into your truck from some very angry people to your front/left.

Then being teleported via dreamscape to the scene of which you dealt with a dying child who was shot in the chest and having the bullet travel in such a way that it took all but a sliver of her pancreas out of her lower right side and exiting her young body and slamming into her 4 year old sisters leg .....then you are transported to the helicopter ride in which you stabilized this young girl so she could get surgery at your base ......and how you stood outside the surgery suite for 4 hours waiting for this innocent child to make it ........only because you can't help but think of your own sweethearted daughter who you know you would do anything for......thats when I'm jolted awake...........man I miss war...........