I locked my garage key in my car.  In the garage. 

I don’t claim to be intelligent.  Sure, I may have a huge ego… I may think that I’m pretty clevel.  And sure, I may very subtly attempt to manipulate people into thinking I’m a brain… but the important thing is that I don’t explicitly claim it.  In fact, I go the other way entirely… I’m a self-deprecator guy. So what’s the point of this little tirade?  Well, it means that I can act and call myself an idiot without losing any face.  It’s nice… because deep down, underneath my fake ego that’s hidden under my fake clown-suit… I’m a big moron. 

So I locked my keys in my car.  I saw a guy walk out of a little person door inside of the garage door, and I thought to myself, “self, you don’t need to keep your key on you because you can walk out through the little man-door.”  Idiot.  You still need to get back into the garage.  I didn’t call my landlord… I didn’t call the garage guy.  Instead, I waited outside the garage… in a dark alley… under a dim streetlamp… for an hour.  People were walking by thinking that I was about to rob them.  I was trying to look as inconspicious as possible… which means I strait looked like a villain lurking in the alley (this was well past sunset btw).  I was listening to Notes in Spanish with my head buried in the transcript for the podcast which ultimately made me look fishy as hell.  Sigh.  I hate being that guy.  So finally, after about an hour and a quarter a family-packed Skoda drove up to the gate.  As soon as the car disappeared into the door, I put down the transcript and followed them in.  Pure terror on this poor lady’s face.  I tried to be as peaceful looking as possible which means I was smiling.  For those that don’t know me, I don’t smile all that much.  I laugh a lot, and I’m more or less happy, but I need a reason to make the smiley face.  So in retrospect, I think the smile was in poor taste because I probably looked like one of those crazy clown-guys.

Anyways, about the MotoHippie stuff… it’s coming along very slowly.  The biggest stumbling block is not having a damn bike.  I may have one as early as next weekend, but I’m thinking it’s going to be a little bit longer.  The next delay is the fact that I can’t swallow my pride and just use a pre-existing blogging system to create my site.  I mean, I don’t even like using myspace (basically because it’s more or less the opposite of creativity) because you’re so constrained to other people’s themes and the requirements of the site, but how can I deny that more than half of the referrals to MH come from myspace?  Sorry, got tengential for a moment there… I’m going to have to suck it up and install something on MH.  I’m leaning towards wordpress, but I don’t know.  If you have any suggestions, let me know.  I’m looking for both flexibility and power.  I don’t want to be locked into any certain design, but I still want all the functionality of having permalinks and anonymous commenting while maintaining the ability to put crap wherever the hell I want to.  Uhhg.  I should just hire someone who actually knows how this stuff all works.