http://www.beansbaxter.com www.beansbaxter.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en T. Boone Pickens is a well-known and legendary Texas oilman, a crusader for shareholder rights, a philanthropist, and a corporate raider. His deep pockets have been used for conservative politicians and causes, and today his official website has gone live - www.pickensplan.com - with his concept called the Pickens Plan. The ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/t-boone-pickens-introduces-the-pickens-plan-to-america.html “The sunset is just my light bulb going out.” --Ryan Adams How do you protect something that exists merely on the basis of faith? Where can we safely put this faith and for how long? Are we putting faith into something we want to believe in or the hope that we ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/my-sweet-disposition.html "In a normal sort of way, like I am you and you are me." --Clem Snide My cast is unofficially off. The doctors expect me to continue wearing it until its official removal in a couple weeks, but I have shorted my time into it and my hand continues to heal. My ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/moment-in-the-sun.html    I am a big fan of Dan Neil, an automobile columnist for the Los Angeles Times, as his humor and observations show an astounding method to keep me reading with enjoyment. I have always loved to read, especially reviews, but he takes it way further. You will catch yourself feeling as if ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/2008-mercedes-c300-sport-review.html My friend, Barry, has been getting better with his video production. He was not a man when he was using Pinnacle, so I like to tell myself thanks for supplying him with Adobe Premiere as he now produces some top notch videos. I am not just saying this, but they are getting better and ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/breaking-in-new-honda-video.html I just received the call from the hospital scheduler, and I am first in the Operating Room tomorrow morning. I have chosen not to do a local anaesthesia instead choosing a regional anaesthesia. I guess that involves seven shots in the arm pit to nerve block off everything, and I'll be awake ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/i-have-a-date-in-the-operating-room.html I took this from my PNW Riders motorcycle site. One of the riders there posted this, and it did bring me quite a few laughs. I'll just let the story and the humor speak for itself: After thinking on this for a couple days, I've decided to pitch "The Adventures of ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/the-adventures-of-beansbaxter.html So yeah... I rode back from Colorado Springs, CO back here in one-shot and it was a ride full of everything - too much to get into. I experienced a full adventure on that ride back and it was the craziest, insane, exhausting, longest ride of my life. In my days ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/the-longest-ride.html I spent a lot of time at the doctors today, mainly because I was a walk-in at the emergency room in Denver, so it was very packed in there. My original thoughts were I had just 2 broken fingers, so they sent me to get xrays and then the doctors thought ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/when-will-it-end.html Well, today has been one of those days. I dont even know where to begin... I was leaving the Sturgis Bike Rally in South Dakota, en route to Colorado. I was trying to avoid going through Wyoming, so made way through Nebraska instead to work my way south. The majority of ... http://www.beansbaxter.com/beansbaxter-motorcycle-crash.html