Nothing really of importance to report at the moment, I guess… I did get my new handlebars and I absolutely love them. Now that I have the shorter stem, the bike fits better and my right elbow no longer aches like a motherfucker at the end of a ride. I didn’t really want to wrap the bars with bar tape; I wanted to leave them bare. Problem is, the cable routing isn’t internal so the cables would not only be visible, but so would the electrical tape I used to keep the cables in the grooves. Gayness. The bar is carbon fiber and carbon fiber is dead sexy. Hence my desire to not tape the bars and cover that up!
So on Thursday night I was coming home from work, riding up Broadway. I look and I see like 8 police cars pulled off onto a side street and wonder what in the FUCK so many cops were doing in one spot. Turns out that a car had somehow ended up on its top. I have absolutely no clue how it happened since the side road in question is fairly wide and didn’t have anything I would consider hazardous. There were also no other cars in the vicinity. Sometimes I wonder about people… sheesh!
Musically, I’ve taken a liking to Lacuna Coil of late. They’re a goth-rock sort of band from Italy that have actually been around for a good while but didn’t really become popular until their single “Heaven’s a Lie” started getting some airplay. The lead singer is a female and I believe the rest of the band is male. The lead singer has a great voice and is wicked hot to say the least. I guess you could compare them to Evanescence but in my opinion Evanescence sucks and Amy Lee’s voice really gets on my fucking nerves. Not so for Lacuna Coil. Alas, their CD “Comalies” appears to be pretty good from what I’ve heard on their fan station on Yahoo Music.
Speaking of which, Yahoo Music has definitely been worth my $7 a month, that’s for sure. There’s some stuff that Rhapsody has that they don’t and vice versa. The thing is, it’s $3 a month cheaper than the basic Rhapsody subscription and allows you to transfer the music they offer to a compatible device. Rhapsody charges something like $15/mo for this capability. I don’t have a compatible device yet, but once I can manage to stop spending money on my bike I’ll probably buy one. Deciding which one to buy is kinda tough, but I think I’m going to go with the new Iriver H10. It’s actually been upgraded to 6GB of storage, which is plenty of music for my needs. Sure it’d be nice to be able to hold my entire mp3 collection in one player and carry it with me everywhere I go, but I don’t really need that capability. It’s not like I couldn’t just plug it into my computer and sync over some new music whenever I feel the need. I do that now with my Rio and it only holds 1.5GB of stuff. Heck, I don’t change music on it very often at all. Most of the stuff I have on it has been on it since I got it! Anyway, I’m going to bed. I’ve rambled enough.