all sorts of 'firsts' to report

Wowie! I've spent the last 18 days in CA working working working. Hardly saw anyone. Been doing the 12 hour days 6+ days a week to get a big project done for work. Which I still love. How did this much fun and yummy validation escape me in my earlier years? Sure glad I'm tuned in, now!

So i was also cat sitting while I was there. For Mougie - a personality-ful and sadly flat faced persian. No kidding, the poor dear's face is flat. He burbles when he breathes because he's got no sinuses! I know he was bred that way, cannot figure out for the life of me why. His human, Renee, was just on the first of a series of trips to Europe to ride a BMW mororcycle through the Alps - German to Italy and all around. She had a blast and if I can find her pics I'll throw in a link. She got back home on Thursday.

Saturday she threw leathers at me & said come on, let's got for a ride. Sure, what the heck, I can be a passenger. We got dressed, pretty heavily, and I'm thinkin hmmm - and we walked out front to her Honda 600 sport bike. Lane split our way up to highway 9 and f2kin zoomed up that hill. She stormed it! I especially liked the bit where the a** in the vette tried to race us around a curve. Hah! We won hands down!

So I'm perched up on the back, on what feels like a bandaid on a piece of metal, knees level with my chest, clinging on to her like a baby monkey hangs on to its momma. We hit Skyline and then she opened it up. At one point I glimpsed the speedo - she asked me later if I did cause she could feel me see that it said 84. I was rather wishing I hadn't known that! Man, is she a superb rider. I loved it - especially the return trip, when she took it a bit easier on me.

It was load of fun rolling up to Alices & getting off the bike. Not too many 2 hetero chicks on sport bike combos up there. All in all, I will do that again. Hopefully soon! I noticed today that the insides of my legs feel like I had a serious workout at the ad/ab machine - I was really hanging on with everything I had.

So my other new thing is that I am stuck in Chicago for 24 hours due to weather related flight delays. No clothes. No one to answer too. Blogging from the Red Carpet Club in the airport, I stopped in here to get online and get a room. There are about 500 people in line outside to get a voucher. Heck with that. Gonna close up now, get to the hotel and perhaps find some trouble.