Yes, in my humble opinion, there are probably a few good posts that need to be written, but they can wait until next week. In the meantime, here's some useless rambling, in Frenchy's Reader's Digest form.
The surprise 30th birthday party I threw for Sleeping Beauty in the Kingdom of Rhode Island can only be called a success, though it had more than one chance to be a complete disaster.
The best thing about pulling off a surprise party is that feeling of satisfaction when it all comes together, and you see the look on the surprise party victim's face at the moment they notice familiar faces in an unexpected place. The worst thing about pulling off a surprise party is your significant other figures out that you have the ability to hide things from them, and do it well.
As they say, no good deed goes unpunished. The full story should appear here next week if I can remember how I used to string my incoherent thoughts together into some semblance of a yawn-inspiring tale...
Now that the big party is over, I can finally shift all my planning energy to another motorcycling Expedition, this time to British Columbia. I already have the rough draft Map-kin prepared, sent invitations out to the original Great Unsponsored Nova Scotia Expedition Team, and, thanks to a cryptic email I received today, I learned there is some real yet preliminary interest from a real French television channel about including this ride in a French documentary being shot about 'Bikers in America.'
While I give it about a .001% chance of happening, if it does, the joke will be on them when they find out that Frenchy doesn't actually speak French. Hopefully they realize this small yet important fact after they pick up the bar tab!
To complete my pointless brain dump, a revamped website for the Rant is in the early planning stages. Not that I need more room for my pitiful posts, I just hate writing on Blogger.com more and more every day (might even be time to dust off the ol' GFY award.) More information to come as I figure out the best way to not lose any of the Faithful Fifteen in the migration.
And that will all happen, I am sure. For now I am trying to get my fill of doing nothing much at all, and so far it's working out quite well. Full-on ranting will probably resume next week.























































































































