today is a great day... today is the 35 anniversary of the birth of one of the world's souls that never made it far enough in his human form...

martin was an amazing fella, he was witty and intelligent beyond his years... he had an amazing way about him that was purely magnetic... his penchant for making people smile was uncanny... and most of all he was a good human... a truly good person... he loved the hoyas, baseball and what we all did most of the time... SKATEBOARDING :) dude never got to see the 1990's, never got to see so much, but in his short life, he saw a lot and touched a LOT of us... miss ya man.

so i take off on my scooter this morning, and i decide to take a new route, one that would take me through the side streets of salisbury and with that, it took me by the graveyard that saw my first friend... this graveyard is very near another good friends old house, the old graveyard that backed up to our first LUON halfpipe way back in the day, and home to the rope swing that swung over johnsons lake... well anyway, i stopped in to see Martin and about halfway up the lane i realized that it was in fact his birthday... kinda odd how i ended up there on that route, and then finally deciding to go up to his grave... all on his bday... anyway, i wanted martin to be googled and this is the first time ive had the chance to make that happen... so here you go marty!

so with this post, i wanted to attach a passage from a book that i am reading right now, "No Death, No Fear" by Thich Nhat Hanh and it goes like this:

"Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. We do not have to go anywhere in order to touch our true nature. The wave does not have to look for water because she is water. We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God"

this is fairly incredible news that has come out recently... basically my company, navtrak helped a company recover a stolen vehicle and the story is amazing...

here's how it begins...

"Jorge Vazquez of Houston's Latin Specialties did his research and knew that a GPS vehicle tracking system would make his specialty food service business more productive. However, he never thought he would need to use the service to stop the theft of one of his trucks, in the middle of a delivery, and in broad daylight."

and here is my favorite paragraph... (notice where he talks about our customer service....)

"On April 28th, one of our trucks was stolen while making a delivery in a supermarket," reports Mr. Vazquez. "Thanks to the Navtrak GPS system and the prompt help of their customer service department, we were able to track the truck down and relay its real-time position to the Houston Police department. The thief was apprehended, our vehicle recovered (upwards of $100,000 in cost) and our cargo salvaged (another $15-20,000 in cost) - all within an hour of it being stolen. The most rewarding thing, however, was the feeling of being able to fight back and not just be another defenseless 'victim'."

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this is great for all of you who have a bit of segway envy... i know i do, i want to own one, not sure why i do, but i do... :) anyway... here is great pwnage for a segway rider!!!

hahahahah check out this video

so, i wanted to start tracking this, and what better place...

my handicap index as of today is 10.2

if i get below 9, i can play from the black tees in the club championship and potentially make the city team! a goal that i set for myself at 25, to do by 35... hmmm... is it happening???

later

not sure what is going on lately, but i have to say my golf game is off the hook right now...

last saturday, i shot a 79 at green hill, and yesterday on my birthday i shot a 78!! yeah, amazing to me.... i must say, im just as surprised... anyway, its been about 6 years since i last shot this well, and im hoping to keep riding this train.

the round on saturday featured two drives that totalled 775 yards, 3 birdies, doubles on 1 and 10, and lots of pars... the round yesterday only saw one birdie, 5-6 great long drives (300+) and again 2 doubles!!!

so, if i can rid my round of those doubles and sink a few more putts i might just keep it in the 70's all year!!

what a great way to start my 35th year.

i just watched one of the most powerful speeches by barack obama.

i just had a killer crab dinner at the old mill in delmar with a lot of my closest, bestests

and in nine minutes im 35.

holy shit.

:) here comes more fun!

because change for the sake of change is a REAL possibility.
because it would be fuckin killer to have a man of color represent our melting pot.
because it would be cool to have a guy who can go talk to a nation that we may have shunned in the past.
because it would be change of regime in a city that needs it.
because he _may_ start to eliminate lobbyists.
because he may be able to get a lot more of our friends, relatives and people OUR generation will have to take care of... more taken care of with better health care opp.
because i just have a great gut feeling about this guy and what he believes in.
because he has inspired my wife to say this... "i havent watched much of mccain babe, but i gotta say, whatever he could say that would go against what barack just said... i mean, wtf, would he even be human?"
thats powerful.
and... just because i predicted all of this way back when he made that speech in 04
i knew it then. and i told friends. staunch connies...
they laughed :)
im laughing now