Leather Jackets and Sailboats

Man I've been bad at this.
Like real bad.
Crap even.
I had grand plans of blogging down everything, but then when it comes to it I just dont create the time. It's like everything I guess, you need to make time, commit, make things happen.
I think my core issue is that I have tried to make my blog something its not. I have tried to make it sound intelligent and insightful, rather than just writing whatever the heck I feel like, and if noone reads it thats ok, because its for me, not you -but any enjoyment you get from my ramblings is of course a bonus.

So heres me getting back to basics:

Things of note from the weekend:
The Leather Jacket
On Friday at some stage I randomly decided I wanted a leather jacket. It somehow got into my head that leather jackets are the pinnacle of coolness, and I should get one. I think it may of been inspired by watching some "Happy Days" episodes on youtube... Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli aka Fonzie is just the tits.
So come Saturday morning I manage to convince my flattie Nick to come op shopping with me in my hunt to find a sweet leather jacket.
3 suburbs, 6 op shops and 3 and 1/2 hours later, I am sporting the sweetest leather jacket. Not only is it awesome, warm yet breathable and nice and soft, but as soon as I don it I feel its instant effects. 20% more manly, and 20% more dangerous.
Stuntmen wear leather for a reason.
For the remainder of the weekend I have been advocating the leather jacket to as many people as possible (In fact, I think I'm going to name it, something tough of course like "butch")...
I hope that I can convince enough people to get them so that we can start a gang, it would be a biker gang but there is a distinct lack of bikes, so maybe a street gang.

The Sailboat
Last weekend, the purchase of a sailboat become a mutual goal with my flattie. This weekend, it was sailboat shopping time. Trade Me was on, and we went and looked at a whole stack of boats, big, small, buoyant, not so buoyant, you name it, we saw it. We found this one beautiful wee wooden number, a "Cherub", which is a two man trailer based sailboat that has all the trimmings. The mast is huuuge, the sails are massssive, it has a spinnaker and all, plus you have a trapeze set-up for when you are flying along, the two of you have ropes attached to harnesses that go all the way up the mast to hold you in as you stand on the edge of the boat to balance it as you reach warp speed -like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lZhFsFqhY.
How fun does that look!
Needless to say, it has been purchased, at $600 a real steal and the 50/50 split between us both makes it really affordable.
Now the fun comes... will keep you posted on the capsizes and calamities that are sure to follow!

Anyway, I'm supposed to be cleaning my room. NOT writing rando stuff on the interwebs.

Peace out :-)