Hello, been awhile. YouTube re-instated my video. And they took the warning off of my account! So hurrah for us!

Other than that things are going well enough. I won that video contest…well 2nd place…..but I wanted 2nd place as it had a prize I preferred. I won a Nvidia 295 GTX. It’s Nvidia’s top level graphics card and worth around 4 to 5 hundred dollars.

Now my big question is….keep the card….and spend money updating my computer so it can use the card….or instead sell it and buy a PS3?

I recently got a new HDTV. A rather big one…..and the a PS3 has a Blu-ray player….BUT….the new graphics card will have an HDMI hookup….so I can just carry my comptuer down and use that to watch wicked quality movies. What to do…..what to do….?

Hey guys. A friend of mines dad is doing a crazy adventure ride. And unlike Mr Boorman he’s doing it without support vehicles.

Check out his site. It’s for charity.

LINK:   Affric to Africa

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So I went to pick up a package from a viewer. He sent me an early Christmas present and I gave him the address of the bike shop I go to. After picking up the present I’m in a very good mood. Listening to Christmas songs, son sleeping in the back. Things are going well with the wife…should be a good Christmas. So then I get home and I’m at my garage and I remember that I forgot to let the dogs run the last half a kilometer to the house as I normally do. So I drive back around the park and let them out to run in the park. So then I’m coming around the park…..coming up to the exact same corner that my wife crashed on before….and as I’m taking that corner I see a body bounce off my driver’s side window.

I get out of the car and see an old man lying on the ground bleeding from the head (just above his eye).

Video to come.

Hey guys,  things are starting to get better. Went to the doctor on Saturday and all results came back negative. So I’m neither losing my teeth (not yet) nor do I have cancer.

I’m arguing with the wife a bit less. But more importantly I’m learning how to ignore her more when she does nag…..and that’s a good thing not a bad thing….even she’d say so. She just nags when she’s tired…..they aren’t real complaints……they couldn’t be as we all know that I’m perfect .

And just today my YouTube channel got high views again, comparable to any of my highest days. But that’s just one day…..I hope it stays up there.

Also I owe you guys an apology. No one complained…..but I realized for myself that I did you all a disservice. I was talking about how low my views were and how I had less motivation…..that’s not right. Some of you have been with me for years. And some of you are new to my channel, but have invested a large amount of time watching my older vids. If the people that I already have aren’t enough….then there’s something wrong with me.  But having said that…..my stats are a reflection of the quality of my videos….and when they go down I feel like I’m not doing as well as I should.

Oh and my son just decided to start walking the other day.  He’s been taking a few steps here and there since he was 9 months old, but a couple of days ago he just started walking all the time….it’s like they just flick a switch or something….kinda weird.

So most things look to be on the up and up. Hope you guys are having a good Christmas start.

M13

Hey guys.  It was my son’s first birthday on the 9th. I made him a 2 hour long video that shows him from birth to now and added in some children’s songs. He likes it. He loves watching himself on video.

I’ve almost  run out of videos on my hard drive. And considering that my youtube channel is getting less views than ever…I don’t feel much motivation to make new videos. But nonetheless it only takes a few hours to make a series….and a series can last a few weeks worth of uploading. So I’m sure I’ll be putting something up.

October/November was supposed to be the best month of my life considering the exposure I should’ve got from Boorman’s show. But instead of mentioning my videos….they just called me a criminal. And now Big Earth Productions are ignoring my emails. And coincidentally my youtube numbers choose this month to plummet. It’s ironic that my numbers have been steadily rising for the last 4 years…..and all of a sudden for the first time ever….they choose this month to go down?

Ahh, well. I’m still hopeful about opening the tour company next year. I’ll be planning out the route and working out the details this winter. It should be good.

Jade is doing well. And that’s the most important thing.

M13

Hey all.  I wanted to let you know that I am talking with Big Earth. And while being somewhat non-apologetic….they are still trying to reach an understanding with me.

Yes, I will be selling my bike. But that doesn’t mean I’ll stop making videos. I still have my scooters and I can always borrow a motorcycle for a day…and in a day I can make a dozen videos easily. So no worries.

I was expecting October November to be the turning point for my youtube channel. My youtube earning have always gone up. Each and every month…..starting from next to nothing….and just recently started to become…..well….something. But…for no reason I can pin point my views are plummeting.  The last few days they’ve reached new lows that I haven’t seen in 6 or 7 months. So all the progress my YouTube channel has gained in the last 7 months now feels like it was lost. It might just be a temporary low…..it might bounce back to a new high. It very often drops before it spikes….so this might be the case. I hope so.

Other than that Cujo ran away and my dentist thinks I might have cancer and sent away his findings to a pathologist (I’ll know in 10 days).

So all in all a good month! But don’t worry…..I’m laughing as I write this……don’t get me wrong….it’s all 100% true….I’m just oddly enough not in a bad mood. Probably because recently I’ve been getting along well with my wife and if I had to choose between cancer and my wife nagging me……I’d choose the cancer. So as long as my wife isn’t destroying my soul…..I’m happy enough.

Thanks for reading this and I’ll try to keep you updated.

1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.

2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.

3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.

4. You respect your body … finally.

5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way.

6. You find that your baby’s pain feels much worse than your own.

7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.

8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.

9. Your heart breaks much more easily.

10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.

11. Every day is a surprise.

12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)

13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.

14. You become a morning person.

15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.

Many people have been congratulating me on being on TV. And yes in a way I think it’s cool that I’m on an international TV show. But to be honest. I’d still rather I wasn’t.

Yes, the show made me seem like some badass underworld racer. But problem is…..I’m not that. Last time I checked I was “The World’s Most Successful Motorcycle Video Blogger”…..I’m a  video blogger. That’s it. No more no less. But they didn’t even mention that.

So instead of saying what I really do……which would have really really helped me and my family. They instead make up a fictional story that they thought sounded cool. About me “organizing illegal street races” …..they make me sound like Vin Diesel. I’ve seen his movies…..and yes he’s cool…but he’s also always on the run from a shit load of police. And I can’t run. I have a baby. I have a job teaching. I was starting a tour company. But now………now they have announced to the planet…..that I am a criminal…..which is a lie….but their show is made to look like a documentary so people will believe it. The Taiwan government will believe it.

I’ve never been in an actual race on the street. Sure I may pass someone and ride quick for a few seconds….then slow back down again. But that sure as hell doesn’t fit the definition of a race.

And to top it off……they showed my license plate. You know….the one I have been editing out of my 600 plus videos…..the one I’ve been editing out of videos for the LAST 5 YEARS! The same license plate that they said they would not show. The  same license plate that I wrote about in their waiver…..I wrote “You may use footage of me in your show as long as you do not show my license plate or my face without my helmet or mask on.” That was how I signed the waiver they gave me.

In other words…..they made up a lie and told everyone I was an organizer of illegal activities and then gave everyone my name and address.

Slander. Defamation of character.  Libel (they wrote under my picture that I was an illegal street racer). And last, but not least Breach of Contract. I’m sure there are a few others….that I can’t think of.

So……thanks to Charlie Boorman’s Big Earth production company,  M13 is selling his motorcycle and won’t be buying a new one for awhile. The police in Taiwan now have all my info……and will make up an excuse to impound my bike if they see me riding it.  So….for the last few months I’ve been looking forward to this….as you all know…..as I wrote about in my thank you letter for my private series. This was supposed to be my big break…..this was supposed to be my big chance. Oh well.

The producer of the show already apologized and said he’d tell the people at Big Earth to contact me (they haven’t yet). And oddly enough Claudio hasn’t responded to my email yet. But he’s such a nice guy he’s probably just looking into it for me first. We’ll see what they say. In the meantime…..anyone know a good lawyer in the UK?

This was supposed to be the best month of my life.

M13

This Sunday I’ll be on the BBC2 in Charlie Boorman’s By Any Means series.

Other than that. My YouTube channel has been getting less and less views….but is going higher and higher on charts. So I guess that means that all of YouTube is getting less views these last few weeks and that my channel is weathering it better than most. Odd.

I’m curious to see if being on a show that’s shown all over the UK will affect my channel at all. I’m hoping it will…..but I’m not expecting anything (honestly).

Wife and I haven’t argued in a week. We met with someone to talk about our “problems” (her nagging for no reason). And things have been better lately. Hopefully that continues.

My work cut my hours as they hired another teacher. So I went from what’s considered full time for a teacher……to about half that. November is my last car payment…..so I might still be ok.

My son is a couple of weeks away from his first birthday. And he is becoming a lot more fun to hang out with now that he isn’t so little anymore. Today he was being funny and I told him I loved him….and as I said the words I felt the emotion wash over me….like being hit by a wave. I shed a tear or two. It’s amazing how sometimes by putting a feeling into words….it amplifies the emotion ten fold. Perhaps not the emotion….but the feeling of it.

Enough mushy stuff. Umm, I bought Borderlands and look forward to playing it with my friends (and Scram). Oh, and I found a Cold Stone ice cream shop not to far away. It’s awesome.

Haven’t done much riding or racing lately. But it’s always good to take a break from something you love….or hate…..probably better to take a break from something you hate…one would think. Anyway….peace out! I hate that goodbye. I’ll just say goodbye. Goodbye.

A friend in the UK just told me that chapter 17 in Charlie Boorman’s new ‘By Any Means’ book is called “Mayhem Madness and M13”

How cool is that?