Hi there, welcome to the BLOG of my life as a Vagabiker. Beryl calls me a 'Free Spirit' my Grandpa a B.U.M. of no fixed address. Kelly says I'm 'off the wall'. I think that the Toad is closest saying I'm the Cat in the Hat it's fun to have fun—but you have to know how.

These are the stories of my unique, home-and-job-free Natness.

Naturally, quasi-legal events are fictional. Everything else is the unvarnished truth.

Archive for January, 2005

In 2004 I kept track of where I had slept… which was amazing

Friday, January 28th, 2005

I always assumed that I stayed with 30 or 40 different families over the course of a year.  For a lark I decided to keep track.  I am amazed.

When I’m at their (your) house I do some, or none, of: Cooking, Cleaning, Walk Dogs, Pick up Dog Poo, Clean/ Wash Dishes, let in Cable repair-men, fix your bike, eat your Snackwell’s, Baby Sit, play baseball (or what-have-you) with your kids, Entertain with stories of my travels…

Many thanks to every one on this list.

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HOME INVASIONS: Fat Nat in your living room this weekend

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Hey,

That’s right. NBC will be giving a 2h broadcast of Race Across America this weekend. 2pm, but I’m not sure what time zone that’s for, so check your local listings.

Given that out team (Action Sports, with the Arch Biker, Billy Innes, and Dr. Evil) won the event, set a new course record, and won the largest prize amount ever, they’ll probably give us a little air time. (more…)

ToFiNo BC, Greatest place on Earth

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

Hey, just a quick note here.

It Victoria is still covered in Snow. I fled to Tofino BC (think of Monterey California, but never having had someone cut all the tree’s down). At present it’s the ONLY place in Canada which isn’t covered in snow. The pass into here is so snowy that I haven’t been able to leave. Though Hiking in the Old Growth of the Pacific Rim National park (southern most rainforest in North America), and walking Hunna (Sam’s POS puppy that I actually I get along with well when it isn’t biting my feet). (more…)

Itch Reief, & the Subie Rocks

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Have you ever wished that you could just jump right out of your skin?

Day 1:
Dr #1 “Do you have any drug allergies?”
FN “Not that I know of”
Dr. #1 “Take these antibiotics for 10 days, and come back to me if the fever/ headache, and lump in your neck are gone”
FN “Roger, Roger” (more…)

Snow in Victoria

Friday, January 7th, 2005

I decided to have a personal challenge with myself to see how many different skinsuits I could have on e-bay simultaneously.

Yeah I’m teeing off on e-bay. The motivation is that my address is once again 101 Subaru Loyale Lane, and gas prices still haven’t gone down, and it’s snowing in Victoria!

Trivia IX

Which of the following is/are true:

A) Have you ever had an itchy foot? Looked at it and though ‘damn flees’. But then 30 minutes later feel your face heating up. Upon looking in the mirror you notice that your entire body is now covered in a rash of red dots, which itch. But if you touch them, they begin to itch 10 times worse. (Do you think it’s possible to dedicating 30 minutes to scratching your entire body?). Wearing any clothing, rubs the bumps and makes them itch worse. Logically one would go naked, but there’s no heat in the house, and there’s a snow storm outside.
Victoria never snows, this must be Hell.
But the Archbiker said that I would know I was in Hell because lots of friends would be there.
ARGH – I need to go and see if I can’t set a new scratching record

B) It’s now 4 am, and I’m awake. What’s on my mind? I was wondering if it’s possible that in time before the dinosaurs (or Jesus) there was human civilization which abused their planet so much that it wasn’t an ice age, but their own greed and lack of environmental respect which reduced the planet to the amoeba level.

Then I wonder how long it will take the world to recover from us when only the cockroaches survive. Our greed of cheaper McBurgers, and Faster, larger SUV’s aside, don’t Mess with Texas. Maybe the earth will give a little shrug to help down the high rise buildings (yeah the ones which house the friendly people from Visa, MC, and those cell phone companies would defiantly fall first). Then tufts of grass will start making their way through the endless asphalt the of Disney Land parking lots. Certainly new bacteria will evolve, and thrive by consuming only Styrofoam coffee cups.

C) 7 days ago on my ride I started feeling funny
for the past 6 days I’ve had a splitting migraine
For 5 days I had a fever
For the past 3 day a lump the size of the top 1/3 of a golf ball has emerged in my neck
I wake up at 3 in the morning dripping with sweat
I wake up at 6 am freezing cold
Every day I think I’m getting better, but realize it’s the same
I’ve slept 10-12 a night, and am still tired
I’m out of breath ‘speed walking’ across the street

D) My cell phone is now cancelled, because the plan that I was sold doesn’t exist. If you went to any other store and they lied to you about what they were selling you, would they have the audacity to charge $100 when you called them on it and returned the item?
[-“Sorry for charging you $3000 for this Cubic Zirconia Ear Ring which we claimed was a diamond. We’ll refund you the $2995 difference we owe you from the mix up, but it’ll be an extra $1000 as a restocking fee”
-“WHHHHAT?”]
How there are not laws against this? The Bell Mobility people are tyrants!

E) RAAM has a 2h special on NBC January 22, check your local listings

Loose Ends

Subject: Tyler Hamilton is a Sham

You Liar, fraud and Cheat. You got caught not once, not twice, but 3 times. The only reason you even kept your tainted Olympic medal is that No American has ever lost a gold medal, and the Powers that be weren’t about to let it start happening now.

“How Can Kneeling Cowards know what a fall is?” –Monsoon Wedding

Subject: USA Election

Thank goodness for the USA’s double term rule. Either way they’re SOL.
I’m preparing for the changing of the guard by learning Mandarin.

Subject: Credit
How is it that I’ve never, ever had a job for more then 2 months, and I get approved for any credit card I apply for?

Subject: You know your room mate is a Coke Head when…
-He sleeps in until 6pm a few days a week, and doesn’t own a PS2
-He gets Paid $400 on Friday, and Monday needs to borrow money for ‘food’
-The day before he ‘sleeps in’ he gets a LOT done