My base camp/staging area for my jaunt to Lake Powell was the city of St. George, Utah. I took to cruising/wandering the main strip and this White Building all lit up caught my eye. So like a curious cat that needed to be killed I decided to check out the White Building.
At first I thought the White Building might be a government building like the Los Angeles City Hall. But as I got a closer look it said St. George Temple. Temple? What are Jews doing in the middle of Nowhere, Utah setting up a temple? To answer my questions, I decided to enter the visitor's center near the entrance at the front gates. I said my "hellos" to the elderly caretaker gentleman, as I started looking around at the exhibits. 
After reading the captions next to the exhibit, I learned the Temple was built by the followers of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormons. Panicky, I said to my self I have to leave before its too late. It was too late, someone had eyed me for being a non-LDS and came forward to proselytize my ass into being a Mormon.
I was ready for any brainwashing . I had already deprogrammed my self from the Catholic Church at the tender age of 7 by playing hooky all through out Sunday school. So by the time my confirmation was supposed to take place the teachers said I had never taken any classes and was not eligible for confirmation. My parents were dumbfounded and aghast.
But I met my match that evening. Her name was Euget Tronnar. A French social worker doing missionary work in St. George, Utah. Why did she have to be French? I dig French women: Audrey Tautou, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, etc. She was a brunette, with a supple figure and she smelled nice.
I have a familiarity with these types of situations, its like the pretty sales girl who makes her hard sales pitch and we all know sex sells.
"So what do you think we do in the temple?" she asked with her lovely French accent.
Orgies was the first answer that came to my mind. Burnt offerings, human sacrifice, deflowering vestal virgins were some of my likely responses. But instead I said, "You pray?"
"That's not the only thing we do in the temple," she replied. Oh, so this how she was going to draw my interest. Guess what we do in the temple? But what I really wanted to know was her own personal conversion into becoming a Mormon. Tell me of the the time when heroin addiction had sunk you so low you were whoring your ass on the Paris streets, or the time when ennui and depression had so blackened your life the only option was sticking your head in an unlit gas oven, or the time when you were made a hopeless dungeon slave. But Mormonism came into your life and saved your from the dregs. Where was the redemptive value of being a convert to the Church of LDS? She blew this inquiry off and went on with her Disneyeque sales pitch.
Model of the Temple and that little flash is the summer home of Brigham Young.
Have been going to the gym Jesus? Because you look so big and muscular. What do you do to make yourself look so big? "Take on the burden of all men's sins" you say. Looks too heavy for me, man. I'll leave it to the religious professional like Jimmy Swaggart.
I took the DMV Motorcycle Exam at the Montebello DMV. Why Montebello? Compare it to the other DMVs and the answer is obvious.
Ride Rite allows you to retake the motorcycle skills test the following weekend. Why did I choose a weekend with rain? I didn't even have the proper motorcycle riding rain gear. I am such a noob (this will be my 3rd day on a motorcycle). I had on a white undershirt, long sleeve Champion lycra shirt, Addidas Munster Rugby track jacket, and over all that a Carhartt black jacket, and blue jeans. I also had on my Smith and Wesson service boots. The rain soaked my Carhartt jacket, but not the Addidas track jacket, my jeans were completely soaked through. My ass was wet for the better part of the day. My socks got wet and of course so did my feet. This was not one of those warm rains. It was a chill (for an Angeleno) bitter rain.
I dressed as a LOLCat for work. The company I work for is in the insurance industry. Most of the people didn't know what a LOLCat is. The 10% tipping point for LOLCats meme to be popular amongst people working in the insurance industry has not been reached. The knowledge of the LOLCat meme could be demarked by which department you were working in. If you were in the IT department or sales and marketing you generally knew what a LOLCat was. If you worked in the Accounting Dept you were clueless.
Shogo Yahagi is a motorcycle enthusiast and protagonist in the anime: Megazone 23. This anime has long influenced me but I've been suppressing its influence. How long have I repressed being a motorcycle enthusiast, since June 15, 1985.
The motorcycle I used was the white Honda Rebel in the background.
The motorcycle riding skills test:
The dreaded figure 8 in the box skills test:
Ride the motorcycle within the boxed lines. Execute a u-turn, then perform an S-turn and execute another u-turn at the other end of the box. Points will be assessed if you go out of bounds or put a foot down.
After reading the captions next to the exhibit, I learned the Temple was built by the followers of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormons. Panicky, I said to my self I have to leave before its too late. It was too late, someone had eyed me for being a non-LDS and came forward to proselytize my ass into being a Mormon.
Model of the Temple and that little flash is the summer home of Brigham Young.
Have been going to the gym Jesus? Because you look so big and muscular. What do you do to make yourself look so big? "Take on the burden of all men's sins" you say. Looks too heavy for me, man. I'll leave it to the religious professional like Jimmy Swaggart.
These two I get, the Hard Music Festival.
This guy...I don't get at all.
