best skate city on earth

around 11 pm, I gave up on accomplishing my professional goals. our appartment bulding has a nice conference room, so i sat in on lzyk’s conference call to america, and felt guilty and bad. 

so i went skating. it wasn’t supposed to be much. i went up the street to the micro curb and did some things i’ve been fantasysizng about. i should have gone home and kept working, but it was only midnight, and i was miserable about work, so  then i went the old hood and ******* the median at a spot I’ve been fantasyzing about for 18 months. i also skated a beautiful grey stone mini plaza with 200 feet of granite stair, and a mirror smooth black marble manny pad. then I went to a granite spot and suddenly was making everything i tried there, no matter how ridiculous. i hadnt skated there in about a year. maybe i have improved after all. last year i had one flatground trick and one ledge trick i wanted to learn, and while i landed them, i didnt really learn them. i learned the ledge one tonight though. i got it first try, adn then again and agian and again.  then I blasted down linsen and found a metal bank to ledge (all metal) and wasnt exactly kicked out, but got such a crowd going that I decided to leave the getting kicked out part for another night. at this point, i might have started to get get lost. many many spots found me. further down linsen, i wandered to another bank/granite grind spot. i had a tb at the four kind hubba, just for fun. I ****** a spot there that I had forgotten about even trying. then i got pretty lost. i crossed linsen three more times and some other streets several times, over a few hours. in the mean time, i skated a marble down-sloping ledge that i used to hit all the time on the way home from the bridge, but now it’s out of hte way, unless i get totally lost. a murderous taxi driver nearly killed me, careening blindly through a redlight at a narrow crosswalk, but i saw the flash of his headlights a split second before and jumped backwards, mysteriously injuring my ankle in the process. 

one hour of sktating turned into five. my feet hurt. I know barcelona is supposed to be amazing for skating, but i just cant beleive it’s better than taipei.