Hola chicos y chicas!

It's been a very long time since I posted anything but would like to say that I have been reading my Xanga digest nearly everyday.

A quick review of my life since January...

I taught 2 courses at my old college last semester.  One was a essentially IT project management (which I have done professionally for over 14yrs) and the other was on Internet backbone networking (boring shit).  They required a lot of work, the pay was terrible and I enjoyed it to no end.

Right now I'm teaching a distance learning graduate course on Information Systems.  It's an intro class but at the grad level it requies a truck load of work.  The online aspect of the class is OK, but I prefer the in-your-face approach.  I find that I spend a lot of time checking for plagorism.

My motorcycle is down for the time being.  Some sort of fuel problem is my guess, but I can't figure out what it is.  The carbs seem to be working right, the fuel filter is new, the fuel tank screen is clean, vacuum lines are unblocked, etc.

Compression on the cylinders is 150 which is normal for the engine.

It runs fine at idle but when I ride the bike and roll on the gas hard it sputters, backfires and dies.  The whole situation is pissing me off and I'm losing out of classic riding days.

Since I use the bike as to commute in good weather (good = no snow, hail or torrential downpours) this is seriously annoying me.  To add insult to the matter I had to drive into NYC last week and when I went to go home my Jeep was gone.  I had my RX-7 stolen out of my driveway about 10yrs ago so finding my Jeep MIA wasn't exactly a good feeling.  "Raging fucking loonie" is a better fit, but I digress.

Seeing as how there was a ton of festival style garbage in the street I figured that the cops towed the car because of a parade or street fair.  No signs indicating that I parked in a No-Go spot, but this is NYC.  There are rules for the rules and to hell with any standardization.

I call the towing department and after an hour of bullshit they give me a website to check.  There is no record of my Jeep.  Now I figure it was stolen but I see a little link that says to call the local PD precinct if the vehicle was moved due to a parade.

I call up, give them my license plate number and the officer says, "White Jeep?  Oh, thats on Madison around 85th street.  We moved all the cars near the museum.  No tickets were given out.  Have a good day."  CLICK.

What is this?  An Easter Egg hunt?  Still it beats a $300 tow charge or a $150 parking ticket.

My company starts up in September.  I've been doing freelance IT consulting for about 2yrs and have enough clients now to hire on a few "work for hire" people.  I have to admit that I love what I do for the most part, but a steady source of income would be nice.

My plan is now to grow the business for another 2yrs and get it to a point where I can mananage a number of people and projects part time.  During this time I want to get my teaching certification and try to get into a tenure track at a local college.  I really enjoy teaching and this seems like a nice way to have the best of both worlds...stability and freedom.

Heading to Florida to visit some relatives this weekend and then making plans to go to Baja Cali for a vacation in August.  While I'm there I'm seriously going to look into buying property.

Later!