Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to the readers of srr.com! Today is a special day. No, not because you can get dressed up and freeload off of complete strangers. The reason why today is so special is because the NEW Britney Spears album is out, Blackout. Who isn’t excited about this?!?? You’re not? Wtf? Didn’t you watch the 2007 VMAs? She was smoking hot! Nothing sexier than a coked up whore tripping over herself and busting out of her clothes. Tell me you wouldn’t spend a drunken night with her.

Randomness aside, Happy Halloween! Fill yourself up on candy and booze.

Updates

I thought it was time to post some real updates on my ongoings. A lot of stuff has been going on, most of it being shitty. Now I’m not sure about most people, but it’s normal for me to have at least one really super shit month a year. It’s the times when everything just seems to be piling up and nothing goes right. Most years it’s a bunch of cars problems mounting up at the same time. This year I hit the mother load. I would say the shit storm started in March and continues till this day. Let’s go through the past couple months real quick. Here it is, in no real order.

1. Various car issues pop up at the same time as yearly bonuses. The STI shredded a tire on the way home from work one day. So I replaced all tires. At this time I found out I had 5% left on the brake pads. STI brake pads go for $300-400 dollars for the fronts and $250 for the rears. The bonus was gone pretty much the day I got it. Along with the STI, the truck once again needed some brake work done. In April the Tahoe has gotten added to the mix with it’s own issues eating away at the bank. We have since sold the STI.

2. On April 12th while riding ADV for the Wood’s Fun Center free day, I avoided a near crash on the dirt bike. But by avoiding the crash I tore the ACL in my right knee. On April 23rd, I had surgery on the knee to reconstruct the ACL. For about 3 weeks after it was complete hell. I would describe the following weeks like having to learn how to walk again.

3. One day in May, I had a manager at work come up to me and asked me if I would be interested in interviewing for his team. Hell yeah! Only one problem, my current manager is a douche bag. I have tried to leave on two different occasions and he has not let me go. He even had gone so far to threaten to tell other managers that I wasn’t doing my job. Anyway, I said I wanted to move and that turned into a whole other shit storm. Thankfully, the new manager stuck it out through the storm and I got my release date.

4. Day before my vacation more car problems started. After getting back from vacation I had to deal with those problems. Woo Hoo! Welcome home!

5. July 1st, 2 months and 1 week after my ACL reconstruction, I reinjured my leg. I was 100% sure that I had completely torn my ACL again. I found out a few days later that the ACL was still intact but was attenuated. I need to continue rehab and I will find out next week if I need surgery again. In the words of Gay Robot, Good Times!

Anyway, the good times continue. But it’s really no big thang. I just hope that next year returns to the one month shit storm.

Peace out! Keep lovin’ life.

Much like Jerry Falwell…

this site is dead!

Oooohhhh! too soon?

I’m a little slow

I have been pretty busy trying to get content and traffic built for MXConnection.net. So busy that I haven’t really had time to think about anything else. Trying to launch an online community is a lot harder than I imagined.

Officially the board has been opened since February 12 and we didn’t see any new users until a couple weeks later. Eeek! I think my initial thought was I will open a new forum for MX and I will get a ton of people to join. But now I know, and should have known before, that just starting a new forum is not going to get users to you. So I have been doing a ton of reading on what other admins have done to build traffic. To sum up what I found, building traffic equals building content for the site and getting the word out.

We are doing a few things right now to help get the word out about the site. The biggest thing, I think, is we (Alev and I) created a myspace page for MXConnection. We did a few local searches and added as many local riders as we could and from there we starting branching out worldwide. Currently our friend list is 323 strong and still growing. The other stuff we are doing is smaller but people swear by it. The “small stuff” includes adding the link to the site to our email & forum signatures. As well as doing some link exchange stuff with other web admins.

Now, I have notice a small tiny problem with the order I’ve done things. I’m building traffic for a site that, content-wise, is lacking. Currently we have Motocross Track Locator, MX Glossary, Arcade, and a Virtual Garage in the works. I originally thought the Locator would be a huge draw but even that takes some working developing traffic, that is a whole another story. So even though we have seen an increase in traffic we are not seeing an increase in user registrations. Users don’t want to register for a site with no users/postings. So I’m trying to bust my ass getting a ton of posts on the board and making sure all postings go answered. I hope this will help get some more users on the site.

As soon as I take the time I will start developing more non-forum content. I am hoping to get some Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews underway. I have a slight problem with this. My writing skills sucks some balls, as you can tell by my blog. I don’t have the confidence to write the quality stuff I would want for the site. So I may have to find myself an editor (hello Sis!) or find someone who would like to write for the site. If someone happens to come across this and would like to write for MXC please contact me.

That is pretty much the happenings with me and the MXC project. Riding is pretty stale right now but I will update on that in another posting.

Peace Out!

Merry Effen Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all you awesome people! Like I posted in my previous post, not too much going on with my riding. I am still having on and off days. I have yet to have two consistent weekends where I walk away pleased with how the day went. I am starting to think it is all mental. I am over thinking every little action on the track.

Anyway, Xmas is today! The family were very good to me today. My wife hooked me up with new Fox Racing Honda 180 Jersey, Pants and Gloves. Pimp. My Dad, Mom, Sister and Brother-in-Law surprised the hell out of me with a HJC ACX3 Carbon helmet. I think I almost jeezed my pants when I unwrapped the gift and saw the HJC letters.

Here are some pictures for your enjoyment.