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On Sunday Nicole say the injury on my right wrist/arm and I told her it was from re-assembling my scooter. Then I asked her of the scratch on my back was still there. I felt the scratch Saturday night and I have no idea how it got there. It’s long and thin and very straight. Nciole said there were actually several of them. Then she saw a small one on my leg (that was an accident from her though).

I said they were my Jewish stigmata. Then I started thinking about what form Jewish stigmata would take. 9 burn marks in a row. Dreidel letters raising up on your skin. “Gimmel! Damn! I’m going to get them all!”

So someone wityh an ecocruz scooter got a ticket for it not being registered. Apparently as of the first of 2005 you need to have any powered 2-wheeled vehicle registered in case a bored officer wants to make an issue of it. Volks Cafe made up some VIN tags and figured out how to get them registered. Monday I got my VIN and this morning I went to the DMV to get it done.

The first guy was confused and took all the paper work into the back office then came out 5 minutes later saying to have a seat while they called Sacramento. Then a woman came out and asked how many CCs it was. I told her it was an electric 750W motor and that she could see it in the parking lot. She came out and looked at it, thought it was neat, and we went back in where she told the guy how to deal with it.

The guy finished with his current customer and came back to me and managed to get my $17 for lifetime registration. I even have a license plate to show for it and everything but the plate doesn’t fit the bracket.

I walked about 3 miles yesterday but that doesn’t count. I haven’t made it to the gym since last Wednesday.

I got a new tire and tube and have it filled with EZ-Seal. We’ll see if this holds up to the Santa Cruz roads. I left my scooter at the Volks Cafe so they could bolt on a VIN so I can get it registered with the DMV. Apparently all the 2-wheeled motorized vehicles (even e-bikes) need to do this now. $17 for a lifetime registration.

I also asked them to look and make sure I assembeled everything correctly since there was a bolt left over when I was done. I have no idea where it goes. It’s small and hopefully, not critical.

Wow! I love the visual style of this movie and I love Robert Rodriguez directing. I liked the stories and how they intertwined, not explicitly, but seeing characters in the same scenes but from the vantage piont of other characters. Sure it was violent, but that was mostly covered in the comic book style. It was like watching a dream. Check it out!

So today was just a normal day. Nothing seemed out fo the ordinary. Except in the afternoon I felt like I was having a sugar crash and wanted to take a nap. Instead I made myself go do something and I was fine after that.

Jr. Techie finally got some singing magnets! I picked up a large and a small pair since my old set was getting pretty worn.

I also picked up a Five Iron Frenzy CD I didn’t have. That should be the last one because they’ve broken up. Looking at their site I guess I still need “The End is Here.”

My lovely wife, Nicole for making me swedish pancakes this morning. Mmmmmm….

My parents for sending me the books “Yiddish With Dick & Jane” and “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”

My Aunt Rita for sending me the DVDs “Gross Pointe Blank,” and “Shallow Grave,” and “Schindler’s List” (when it gets here)

Nicole for getting me a book on Jewish art called “Jewish Art” and the book “Why the Jews Rejected Jesus”

My sister for sending me the DVDs “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Orgazmo” (special edition), and “Jersey Girl” which taught us both that there’s more than one Jersey girl movie 🙂

And to Dan Galpin for bringing me some Original Cinn.

I started with a few Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Thins (my favorite cracker in the world. Then Nicole made me swedish pancakes and cooked up some nice fatty sausage.

Then I came to work and I’m having a coke, and I’ve had an Original Cinn.

10:50AM – Another Original Cinn
11:15AM – Another cinn down and the end of coke 1
12:00PM – Started second coke. 30 minutes until lunch
2:00PM – Lunch is done. I am soooooo full!
3:20PM – Another Cinn (well 80% of one, Dan had the other 20%) and half a coke is down.
4:00PM – Last Cinn consumed.
4:30PM – Company social. I had a corner piece of birthday cake and a few chocolate covered pretzels.
5:45PM – Coke 2 is finished
In the movie (Sin City) ate another 1/3 of the box of crackers and drank about 24 ounces of coke
9:20PM – 1-scoop cone of Cinnamon Caramel ice cream from Marianne’s

Current estimated calorie intake: 8000
Normal caloric intake for a day: ~1700

Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole’s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the only one of those I missed was Video Pinball.

Bermuda Triangle is a bad game.