Hym ha Fiddler

Shanika and Kadizzle set off to try a motorcycle in Sydney, Montana.   It was a pleasant drive into the oil rich country of the west.  Always Kadizzle is bumfuzzled by all the idle equipment in the boomtowns.  The oil boom caused so much to be built that is now sitting idle. A lot of people lost a lot of money.  Convenience stores with ten counters and endless isles of soft drinks are empty with next to no customers.

About forty minutes or so before we got to Sydney, Shanika called motorcycle Willie to let him know we would arrive.  Willie turned out to be a fiddle f**ker.  You know the type person who finds it difficult to walk in a straight line.  A normal person about to try to sell a motorcycle would make sure it had oil, it would start and have it ready to go, but not Willie.  When we arrive Willie is in the garage with the cycle torn apart changing the oil.  So after a constant stream of pauses and meaningless conversation it finally comes time to start the motorcycle.  It starts right up, amazing.  Willie had just put a little charge on the battery.  However, it would not start again.  The battery was bad and could not hold a charge.  This meant some more fiddling.  The motorcycle had to be pushed out by the truck and jump. started. 

Kadizzle took the BMW 650 thumper for a spin.  It was a nice cycle but just did not seem to fit Kadizzle's profile.  Shanika tried it and decided it was too big.  So back to Hazen we flew with no cycle.  Some good conversation, a nice drive, and some wasted gas.  Such is life.  The coffee just finished perking. 

When old Kadizzzle was a kid people would ask the usual question " What do you want to be when you grow up?'.   Kadizzle wanted to be a bum.  Kadizzle has been watching bum videos on Youtube.  Winky doesn't like it.  Shoestring is the bum making the videos.  He is a very professional bum and just happen to pass through Bismark a week or so ago according to his video.   Youtube is amazing.  If you can get enough people to watch your documentary on being bum you can make enough money to buy a couple sandwiches.  In fact people have sent Shoestring money to help him be a bum. 

How the mind works.  This train of thought at five A.M. made Kadizzle think of singing the old depression song halaluja I ama bum.  Kadizzle broke out with this song in New Zealand and low and behold the lady running the Airb&b knew the song and started singing along.

Back to bumming.  Shoestring has a terribly mangled hand.   Shoestring got off a moving train and fell.   He pushed himself away from the track by putting his hand on the rail.  Whoops two fingers gone.  There is a story he tells with the event how the police immediately issued him a trespassing ticket in the ER while his cut off fingers dangled in the glove.  If you are tired of virus news watch Shoestring and learn the art of bumming.