Dude, downtown Las Vegas is 8x cooler than the strip. Every time I go down there the street performers get better and better. Next time people will be lighting each other on fire and playing hot potatoe with burning babies or something. You can’t beat a guy riding a 2 stroke dirt bike all over the inside of a giant metal globe. I thought he was going to fall over. Apparently if he goes real fast he can get upside down in there (something about physics). They put 2 guys in there on dirt bikes, I was hoping they would hit into each other and we could see some bloody carnage but no.

2 guys riding the globe–video

That’s my dad at the end getting his mind blown. Next they threw in a guy standing in the middle. If you watch real close you can see one of the guys on the bikes take his hat then later put it back on his head.  The show would have been much cooler if the guy standing in the middle was a dwarf. But you can’t get everything you ask for.

2 guys riding the globe 1 standing–video

In this last one they got all three in there. Looks like they have done this a zillion times.

3 guys riding the globe–video

Last time I went up to Ikea I bought a bunch of this cheap material. The stuff is thick as hell and I didn’t think about the thickness until I started sewing it. It ended up being really hard to keep those seams straight. But I would have to say it ended up pretty nicely. It is a take off of that camo man bag I made for Sdot.

Technically it is a beta release bag since this is the first time I have ever sewn button holes. I could have added one to the top of the mix tape holder, but I am sort of done with working with it.

It seems like all everyone is talking about these days is the high price of gas.  Well when I left to PR gas was right around 3.19 a gallon and now its just over 4 bucks. Thats almost a dollar in six months (I can add too)! I found myself needing to do some serious changes in my driving habits to make it by . My current job is about 50 miles away from where I live. As of right now I work 4 days a week.

First thing I did when I got back from PR was register my scooter. It does not get super great gas mileage but it’s better than my car. I was driving it around Provo a couple weeks ago when some jack ass rap kid in a Escalade points and laughs while passing me.

Dear I belong in 2004,

How much does it cost you to fill that beast up? How much does it cost me to fill this beast up? Who is laughing now.  Ass.

With all my love,
Brikon

He was probably laughing because I am a bit tall and my scoot is a bit small. On top of that I was wearing a poncho that I bought from a yard sale about an hour earlier. Whatever.

Fast forward to a couple hours ago. I am driving home from work in my Scion Xb. People are passing me left and right (actually only on the left side since I am sitting in the slow lane and doing 60 mph in a 75). As they pass me they do one of two things

• give me a full 180 degree head turn which in turn makes them look like the elusive human owl and stare at me until they get too far ahead.

• give me the chin up in staring in rear view mirror, staring until they get too far ahead

Dear Owl Head and Chin Ups,

I know you are most likely awaiting the resurrection of christ while staring into my windshield for that long, but I am getting 40 mpg. What are you getting going 80mph in a 75 in your lifted F250 Ford Super Truck? Ass.

Your pal on the freeway,
Brikon

I am going to do what ever I can to save money on gas. Even if it includes driving like an old lady or looking a bit ridiculous on my scooter.

Back in Utah and living with my lovely parents until I can save enough money to pay off my credit cards and move somewhere else. My parents and I took a drive up Payson canyon and went for a hike up to Red lake. It was really quite amazing. Makes me realize just how much I missed the mountains. Crazy there is still snow up in the mountains I guess Utah got a lot of snow while I was in PR.

Half way hiking up to Red Lake, I noticed something peering at me through the through the trees. I thought at first it was a tent, but as we got closer we found it was just two big blue tarps strung up against some trees. Apparently used for some sort of makeshift shelter.

Do people here do this often? I mean making a sweet shelter out of dead branches and two brand new blue tarps. Do normal people eat a couple chicken flavor Top Ramen (leaving about 10 unused packages and all the wrappers). Do they get all blitzed off of little baby sized Coronita’a (leaving all of the bottles) then run around chopping down trees (cutting near the base, leaving the top fallen down where ever it falls). I am assuming they used some of the trees to make a fire but then got a little carried away.

Since I have been home I have gotten many offers to go hiking, camp for the night then hike out. Now I know the way the locals do it.