Items on an agenda that has no purpose

I think it is time I rewind and have a look into my past. I am also beginning to write a short book. The title will be later divulged as my first choice is already a New York Times best seller. It will be a sort of diary of stories in my life that follow a re-occuring theme that I have always dealt with. It will also act as a sort of guide to one who approaches the same situations I was dealt. I really don't know how good it will be or if it will even be literary correct. I honestly don't really care. I'll print a few and give them to my friends and that will probably be it.. But it's something to take up a little time. Research will require a little digging, maybe to more unpleasant memories, and hopefully to days where I wore a smile permanently.
Everything has been done
There is nothing new
No one is original
Your definately not the first
Only someone in a long line of poeple repeating history
Like a record skipping
Repeating a song you wrote
Only the band is 50 years older than you
And on a best hits LP
Give up. GIVE UP. give up.
it's pointless and redundant.
you'll never succeed
Once again, you are definately NOT original.

96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Tough Ghost

OKTOBERFEST!!!!!!!

We made it to MUNICH! I miss karlsruhe already but it's great to be in a new city again with endless new possibilities. I landed at central station where i was bombarded by leiderhosen clad bovarians and rickshaws. Poeple stumbling everywhere drunk as fuck at 3 PM. Two lone straight edge kids in a strange drunk town. I did by chance see a guy walk by wearing a youth of today shirt which made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I kept that with me of course. I managed to spend about 5 fucking Euros on a fucking phone call to meet up with a friend of a friend in karlsruhe. Money weel spent because Angeliki showed us hte town by bike and took us to a amazing vegan restaurant to eat. Munich is actually pretty impressive once you get away from the octoberfest part. I got to see the Munich river wave and watch surfers shred it at night with lights on it. I was so syked. I really would like to try surfing it but i hear the locals are quite terratorial. It is also getting pretty cold out hear. The leaves they are a changin'. Our news friends showed us a great DIY tour and Angeliki gave us a place to stay at her flat. So, polo tommorow!

Jim Henson developed an allergy to fleece.
Tough ghost

Switzerland to Germany

The train ride was alot easier using our new sheet technique. We arrived in the town of Karlsruhe, Germany. This place is amazing and i highly recomment visiting. it is very nice and small with alot of nature surrounding it. The prices for food were fair and the poeple very nice. Many poeple spoke english and we met up with my friend hannes from the candy colored clowns bike polo team. He gave us a palce to stay and showed us around. We ate lot's of good vegetrian food at a place called VIVA. We also visited a rad BMX museum. I spent alot of my time riding my bike and playing bike polo with the candy colored clowns and the rest of hte karlsruhe bike polo crew. Hannes was so kind to give us a place on his couch to stay and show us around. It's been great here but tommorow we head on with the trip to Munich. right in time for OCTOBER FEST! fuck me. On a better note, Fixie Inc gave us new mallets from their prototype stock. I'm excited to test out the new mallet ont he rest of europe.

The loser of a traditional medieval jousting match was expected to offer sexual favors to the winner.
Tough Ghost

Commuter trains take forever

We left Barcelona with many thanks to Camilo and pointed our fingers towrad switzerland. After boarding many different trains for a few hours at a time, we arrived in geneva switzerland. we immediately got on the internet and found where they were playing polo and headed out tot he courts. we were welcomed with open arms by the crew and we had some awesome games. Geneva def has their game on lock. Manuel offered his flat to us for the weekend so we headed to his flat to cok some dinner. He prepared us a swiss dinner and we hit the hay.

They following day we rode around the city and found a "baby beach" where there was a jungle jim through out the trees made from used bike tires. It was a site to see, and being a cyclist i appreciated it much more than the average person. Heading over to the gold sprints in a underground art community, we found only a few trick riders hanging out. The gold sprints never happened but we did get to meet some new poeple and hang out at a fresh bmx skatepark.

Yesterday, we hopped on the bandwagon with a protest riding a free train to Bern. It was socialists fighting for whatever, we got a bunch of free food on the train and then headed to the polo courts.. While fixing my tire, one of hte polo players ran into us and we headed to the courts only to fight FOOT HOCKEY being played. So we made some makeshift courts and payed outside the court. Gabor also showed us his bike workshop in a crazy old barn next to a train yard. He has some sweet as vintage bikes. We took the train home and walked a festival in the streets. Some good sleep is what we needed. Bike polo tommorow!

The game of checkers is banned in North Korea.
Tough Ghost

Fuck

Secret shoppers.

A flight, prostitues, roller blades, bike polo

Arriving in Paris, we assembled our bikes outside the train station in the center of the city. Our tires were flat so we started walking in hopes to find a bike shop. Let me just say that the first bike shop we came across was in barcelona. We ended up getting air from a Moped shop and immediately getting a flat and then going back after to changing the flat to get more air. We rode around Paris and found where they play polo and had a snakc in front of the eiffel tower. We didn´t have any money so we didn´t go up in it. Then, we rode to a park outside of town that was FULL of prostitutes. We camped there. In the morning poeple were jogging by our tent and everything. haha. We rode around Paris a little more and got a train ticket to Barcelona where we hoped to have beeter luck meeting new friends. I found out that McDonalds had free wi-fi so i bought a fry and got to work networking and upon leaving, i walked out into the street to see non other than a man who had time warped into 2009 rocking roller blades, no shirt, ripped up checkar board shorts, and big ass head phones, skitching down the street. I was speechless. I had enough of Paris, on to Barcelona where we met a man from Holland. He was super funny and made the train ride ( when i wasn´t sleeping ) pretty hilarious. When i arrived in Barcelona, i was immediately struckk dumb by how big tourism was there. Las Rambla at any time of day is FILLED with thousands of tourists, locals working, street pedalers, and policia of course. Other than that, Barcelona is Amazing and filled with rich culture and ART! The train we rode into barcelona on was destroyed by a train crew from end to end. So good. We got some food and met up with the bike polo players at La Apirin, which is where they play. They call it that because it is a circle like a pill. The court was sandy and slippery but they play well and i had alot of fun playing with them. A kid named Camilo offered us a room at his flat while we stayed in barcelona and we could not refuse! Life has been gret since. We have been exploring the city while our backpacks are safe at his house. We went to all the land marks of barcelona and even took a 38 mile bike ride up the coast to a small village and went swimming at the beach. Tommorow we will play more bike polo and then probably head to geneva on tuesday!

Buzz Aldrin left a Playboy magazine on the surface of the moon.
Tough Ghost

Bike POlo world Championships

What can i say, Seattle took it against East van. An exhuasting but amazing weekend full of amazing polo and good friends. Met many of the euro players and I'm really looking forward to playing with them over there. Though we did not make it far in the winners bracket on sunday, i did manage to win the "World's Fastest Shot" at 74 MPH !!! Take that home now.

I am here stuck in the london airport because i missed my first flight to paris because of stair complications getting off my flight. They took my cable cutter at security check. I'm surly and wanting to get on with my trip. Airports suck and i can't wait to be back on my bike again cruising through new streets

Chihuahuas, when placed under extreme stress, have been known to eat their young..
Tough Ghost