I was driving to the local PG&E office so I could pay my bill (I’ve been locked out of my online statement thingy, so I was paying short on my monthly) and I got to the part of the road where there is a 3rd lane that goes onto the freeway. I am in the #2 lane, and directly up ahead there is a Mercedes station wagon that is blocking the lane trying to get into the #3 lane and get onto the freeway. I go around him and pull to the light (there was nobody in front of him). The light turns green, I start to go but I’m not racing away from the light. He starts to pull back into my lane behind me and lurches forward almost rear ending me! So he has the gall to start honking his horn, races around me, and gives me the dirtiest “I fucking hate you asshole!” look, all while using his cell phone. He then proceeds to get on the freeway, the whole time glaring at me.

What a fucking idiot! Doesn’t he know that there are people that will shoot you for looking at them wrong? Especially in Richmond? Road Rage is a huge issue nationwide and has caused a bunch deaths, all of them senseless.

I almost wonder if he was just “looking down” on me because he thought that since I’m not white, and was driving a pickup truck, that I was just some idiot who was driving without a license, day laboring type. Not that they are idiots, but that’s probably what he was thinking. I still know he’s an asshole.

If you haven’t watched Rookies on A&E, I suggest you give it a shot. It’s an insight of what the Field Training Program is like. I watch it and see the way these rookies go through the motions of becoming a cop, the mistakes they make, the triumphs they achieve, and see myself and my classmates. Of course, the results are the same, some make it, some don’t, some just decide that this isn’t the job for them.

I do enjoy watching the frustrations that the FTO’s go through, although I haven’t seen anybody get as pissed off as my last FTO did (of course, it’s probably not gonna make it onto TV as it would look bad) but I’m sure that they do, it just gets edited out. Sometimes I can spot the mistakes that they make right away, sometimes it’s apparent later (not too often though)

Oh man…just stuffed myself with tuna quesadillas, derishus, but now sooooooo full , blech!

Ok, back on track now.

So last night I get to work plainclothes, which is always fun. On my monday I worked plainclothes and ended up getting a blue card out of my night. Me and my partner went and assisted another district on a attempted strong arm robbery. We ended up finding the guy, who was with a bunch of his friends at a house. Marked units were out of sight but close by. Me and my partner came around, walked right up to them and detained 5. The marked units then rushed in. It was…very interesting to say the least. All good though, it worked out.

Sorry for being vague, but of course there is always a good reason for that.

Last week I got into this crazy ridiculous foot pursuit. me and my partner were rollin down the street and we see this guy riding one of those “Razor” type scooters that had the little two stroke engine attached to it. We roll up next to him just to tell him to slow down, maybe get off, I dunno..he wasnt wearing a helmet. He had two flashlights attahed to he front handlebars acting like headlights and a blinking red light attached to his leather jacket. We pull up and the guy turns, looks at us, eyes wide like saucers, jumps off, dumps the scooter and starts running the opposite way. The whole time yelling (I found out later he was just screaming “No no no no no no no!!!”) and flailing his arms! I jump out of the car and start running after him. It was like watching Benny Hill. The guy was running in circles, with me trying to catch him. My partner is running after both of us, doing his radio work and broadcasting what was up. The guy then runs across the street, and me in my fervor to catch him, plus the tunnel vision, just ran out with him without even looking to see if there was any oncoming traffic.

The guy then reaches the other side of the street, still yelling “nonononononono” the whole time. He does this crazy cartoon thing where he grabbed onto a telephone pole, swung himself around 360 degrees, and then kept running. The whole time I’m wondering what the hell this guy is running for, as he dumped something while we were running on the first side of the street earlier on…now this guy was no behemoth, but he was acting crazy, was about 6′ tall (which I know, me bein hella short means he’s much taller than me) so I pull out my baton, and finally catch up to him as he tries to run across the street again. I whapped him once and he dropped like a bag of rocks. I fell on top of him, my baton flying into the middle of the street, and locked him up till my partner could get there to help me cuff him. We got the cuffs on him, and pulled him up, and got him against a wall and did the regular customary search for weapons/drugs/contraband etc. Bunch of other units get there and it’s now all code 4.

I go back to see what he dumped, and it was a half eaten burrito. Beans and rice were all over the place. Wow. I ask him why he’s running from us and he tells me that he thought it was illegal to ride one of those motorized scooters. Plus he was on probation. He could have just taken his yelling, but he had to run. So, he ends up getting booked for some charges which became evident later on in the investigation, including riding without a helmet, riding without a license, resisting, and a few others. It was fun. Looking back, I should have looked for traffic before running out after him. But I was so focused, gotta control that for next time.

Onto other news…me and the Ramune are now officially engaged as of 1300 hours on 10-20-08. Tentative date in september. Hooray!!

Money is tight right now as I’ve got a bunch of things to pay for. My red light camera ticket, traffic school, replacing the ignition and catalytic converter for my truck after it got stolen, property taxes, xmas is coming, and there is really no overtime available for me in my current status. Sigh….tight tight tight.

Happy Halloween to y’all, be safe. I know I’ll be trying to stay that way.

Higher Love from the album “Songs Of Faith And Devotion” by Depeche Mode

The other night I was doin my usual duties, and in the course of a traffic stop me and my partner ended up deucing a couple of drivers (2 seperate cars) that happened to be brother and sister. It was a first in my book. I don’t expect to repeat that scenario anytime soon.

Things have been going well so far. My Sgt’s have told me that I’m doin good at work, and are pleased with my performance. In all, I am havin a great time. No complaints. I just wish that I could fall asleep when I got home…that is still a problem. Sometimes I only get 4-5 hours of sleep, and sometimes it’s broken up by whatever is goin on outside. Sigh…the joys of workin mids.

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

Today I completed a bike course so that I could be certified and do some ot gigs involving the bikes. We went and did some simple stuff that I had no idea how to do before, such as change a tire, mounting and dismounting the bike in different ways while the bike was moving, jumping curbs, etc. We finished off the day with a ride from the station to the Marina to Crissy Fields, then back to the station. There were some hills, but all in all I actually did better than I thought I would and completed the whole thing with only mild discomfort.

Here are some pics of the day. Enjoy!

I’m watching Rocky II, YO ADRIAANNNN!!!!!!!

Ya gotta kinda feel sorry for a character like him at the point he falls to in the beginning of the movie. He had it all, then it just *POOF* vanishes.

Ramune is in Hawaii right now with her mom. That is her birthday present to her. She already got me a Honolulu PD shirt, trying to see if she can get some patches. YO RAMUNEEEEEE!!!

On other things, we were looking for a serious asshole the other day. He threatened the mother of his child with death, her sister and the rest of the family and also to kidnap their child. Then he tried to do it. After having previous DV issues, denying that the kid was even his, beating both of them, following mom around and stalking her, this guy now thinks he can get away…well, he’ll find that difficult to accomplish after we find him and lock him up. Rat.

I started riding my bicycle again through Golden Gate Park. It’s a good ride…and helps out with the cardio that I have been lacking. I need to find myself a workout partner. That should do the trick.

I saw Death Race yesterday and found it to be frackin FANTASTIC! It has everything a guy wants/needs, Fast Cars, Hot Chics, Explosions, Guns, I mean, other than the hardcore sex lackin, it was perfect!

Tomorrow I am gonna go visit Moby and check up on his status. He had surgery today to put some kind of metal on his clavicle to keep it from moving around or something like that. I can completely sympathize with his pain, after all, I’ve been there right?

Don’t forget, if you have an 08 R6, I have the manuals on the R6 page up top. Check it out, download, whatever.

I’m watching Pornicopia with my buddy Moby (who is totally not into anything hetero), but we just finished watching 10,000 B.C. (kinda lame)

I’m over at his place cuz he got into a motorcycle accident yesterday which fractured his collar bone in 2 places. He was cut off by an errant driver, while in a turn, which when he slowed down caused him to straighten up and go into the gravel on the side of the road, causing him to lose control and get flung 50 or so feet through the air right into a speed limit sign. It’s good that the sign wasn’t a solid sign but one of those “perforated” sign posts. Otherwise, it may have turned out mighty rough. He has road rash on his right side, some bruising, as well as a few bruises on his head from the helmet.

So thank goodness it coulda been worse and it wasn’t.

Work is good so far..I’ve been sick so I’ve been inside mostly. Except yesterday, I got sent home because I looked like shit. Everybody made a point to tell me that I looked like shit. I felt like shit. And so I got flushed out of the station like a piece of shit. Nawwww…just asked to go home and come back the next day.

So I got my tank decals today, and now I’m not sure how I want to configure it. I replaced the decal on the tail, and removed both of the original Yamaha decals on the tank. However, I only put one side on, and put fairing decals on both. So I kinda need help in deciding how I want to configure it.

A: Tank decal and full fairing decal with the same symbol on it.
B: Tank decal and remove the symbol from the fairing. (just keeping the U.N. SPACY on it)
C: No tank decal, and keep the fairing as is with the full decal.

UPDATE:
I removed the tank decal. I’m waiting for a few BattlePod decals to come in. Those will go on the front of the fairing, like fighter jets kill marks