It has been quite a busy couple of weeks at work. We had a Huge report to go out to the Corps, and they wanted 40 copies (one for each of the corps offices libraries around the US). We also made 3 copies for us (1 unbound, two bound) It would have been a big feat to do 43 copies of even a small report but this one was 3 volumes because it was so BIG. Volume 1 was the report which turned out to be about 330 pages, Volume 2 was Appendix A which was tables of all the artifacts found and it was 400 pages, and Volume 3 was Appendix B,C,D,E which was another report, artifact pictures, and more tables it rounded out at about 160 pages...If your keeping count that about 800 pages times 43 copies, roughly 35,000 pages. Needless to say it took up 10 ream paper boxes, and we joked we might need to take the HEMI truck to deliver it to the printer company (it also had to be perfect bound, like a book). We told them they had a week to bind it. As i carried it out the door to put it in the Tundra, people kept asking me if i was going to try to take the Scooter...Naw i said, even though i think i could make a little trailer for my scoot. Speaking of which my scoot needs a name, we already have Tomtom the tomtom, Sammy Santa Fe, Loui lumina, and Emma the baby (we named her!)...So The scoot is a Baja Sun City 150..what do you think his/her name should be??
Smell- It's amazing the smells you discover when you riding that you never knew were there, or grossly misjudged the strength of until now. I begin with negative and finish with positive on this sense. First discovery, the stench of the homeless village under I-10. It makes perfect since that it would not smell great, but it makes your heart hurt for this people even more when you smell the strength of the urine and unclean smell, and this is with the area being pressured washed twice a week. Second discovery...Food Smells. New Orleans is known for is wonderful food, but does it really have to tease me like this...Does it not know that I don't have the time nor money to stop and try it...
Taste- This links back to smell a bit...I can almost taste the ham, egg, and cheese Po-boy at the pink Po-boy place on St. Claude and Elysian Fields (Gene's Po-Boy), though I have never actually tasted it. The drive by McDonald's is a sensory experience too...Ahhh chicken biscuit (sometimes I bow to this temptation)
Hear- Of course you can hear a city with its emergency vehicles, construction, street cars (clang clang) and car noises, but riding a scooter adds to this. Not only do you hear more city sounds but you hear them better. Also riding a scooter adds another dimension , I listen to every bump and sound the scooter makes and the sounds that come from the road, just to make sure I am not losing parts of the scooter, or my lunch off the back (I know i should have put it in the seat storage, but so much easier to just bungee it to the back). My hearing came in handy several times when I have lost reports off the back (just once), and this morning when my lunch fell off (under seat storage from now on).
