City of endless curbs

It rained. I could exagerate, but it didn't rain hard, there was no flood, it wasn't raining cats and dogs, ni comme un vache qui pisse, but it was a constant steady rain all day. It's still raining. It sounds relaxing, actually. I went to work and went to the bridge. A foreign guest who I had apparently already met but couldn't remember was just leaving (sorry man, there's a reason why I'm not in politics) and a few other unnamed homies. It got more crowded as the day progressed, because there are only so many options for dry spots on a rainy day in taipei. I met a new kid who is just learning to ollie, and tried to explain about how your shoulders drive your feet but I just can't speak enough mandarin to get the point across. Or maybe I did. He skates hard, so I guess I'll find out next time I run into him. I skated hard too. I was too tired by dark, and the lights didn't come on for a while, so I going to give up the ghost and walk home while the rain was light. But I landed some piddly new flatground thing and got excited and then I got another, and another, pretty soon I was back in hard skating mode. It ended up only being about six hours, but when you don't need to wait for toher people and you have the motivation, six hours isn't bad.

at the end, i was trying goofy things on the rail of death, adn I came out in a powerslide that I thought was ok but suddenly I was on my ass and the tip of the rail kissed the back of my head on the way down. this rail has injured a number of people, and not broken toenails like mominey, but compound fractures and so on. It's hard to say why it's so dangerous. It's a 12 foot flat rail, and it's low. It's extraoridniarily slick on its feet, so if your balance is marginally off, then the whole rail shoots out from under you. I put some sticky pads on the bottom last night, but I think someone has already taken them off. Lately, the rail of death has been on its side for use with wally/railjams. It has an extra foot in the middle that sticks out too far. I'm glad I just got a little skull scrape from it.

I walked home in the rain. I noticed some curbs that I hadn't noticed before. Taipei's sidewalks are mostly under eaves, and each eave is the door to some kind of business. Most of them are 1 step and made out of marble or with a metal angle iron on them. The only thing keeping your from cruising curbs forever here is fatigue. And maybe going into 7 for a tb. Which I did.