Monthly Archives: February 2022

Getting Parked and My Opinion

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Man, talk about digging up the past! I wrote this essay after writing an essay, twice, about the subject of motorcycles and urban parking. Andy has been a good friend for longer than he has known me, having … Continue reading →

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#1 What Are We Riding For? (The original, from whence The Geezer came from ;-) October 1999

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Now we’re really in the Wayback Machine to 1999, the very first Geezer with A Grudge column (before it was called that) in the original Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine. I wrote this first essay on a dare from … Continue reading →

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#77 On Being Alone

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is another old one, from 2008, and another Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge column. For me, today, there were a lot of insights into my own personality here that I didn’t unpack until I’d been … Continue reading →

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#84 Because It Is Still There

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Yet another one from my deep, dark, boring past and the 84th Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge Column. All Rights Reserved © 2007 Thomas W. Day George Mallory, the British mountaineer, supposedly told a reporter that … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Dawson City

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is another old won, originally a Geezer with A Grudge Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly column from 2013. All Rights Reserved © 2013 Thomas W. Day I’ve written about this a couple of times, but on a vacation trip … Continue reading →

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Miles and Miles to Travel (1994)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is a really old one. I was living and working in Colorado at the time. An old friend called wanting to celebrate his recent brush with Microsoft fortune and fame by inviting me to his place near … Continue reading →

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#133 The Trouble with Being the Solution to A Big Problem

Posted on February 9, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This one, published in Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly and in the Google blog, drew a lot of heated gibberish responses. That pretty much made it one of my all-time favorites. It received 3,400 hits on the Google blog, which … Continue reading →

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Reality vs. Delusions

Posted on February 9, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This was good in 2009 and it is gooder today. Back in 2009, a friend was trying to run a recording studio in Hudson, WI. Hudson is one of the many cities in our area that poorly tries … Continue reading →

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Aerodynamics or Butt Cracks

Posted on February 9, 2022 by toomuchexperience
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The Best We Can Do?

Posted on February 9, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Another missed “gem” of opinion and bias. Originally Published March 2009 and in Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine On the right, that showroom picture? That’s “America’s Most Beautiful Motorcycle.” According to the 59th Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, … Continue reading →

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