the best bank in taipei

my elbow hurts

the troups couldnt be rousted to finish the qp. someone took the time to find it, then put "danger" tape on it, which represents at least an hour of "work". i think we have a 25% chance of complete the project, much less skating it.

since we couldnt roust the troops, most of the troops went to the bridge. it's getting warm, but not exactly hot. it was a weird night for good weather, on a friday night, because only people i know well were there, and only a half dozen of them. we all put in a good 90 min and lights went off, so i went north. rmj is injured for at least a couple of weeks, but he is always down for a kirin walk, so we mosyed across taipei, from my own nieghborhood through some kind of portal into a place i've never been, down back allies and across weird streets, and it started raining, and we talked lots of shit. so much shit, that when we came around a certain corner, he offered the sentence "do you want to see the best bank in taipei?"

rmj knows taipei better than be. i said yes. we went there, not 10 minutes skate from my house. it's a 10 foot black marble bank, dark at night, but not bad for those of us who skate in the city at night. it looked like the black marble monolith from 2001, at a 45 degree angle. I put down my beer, and gleefully pushed to it a few times. I didn't even expect to makeit to the top, just maybe a kickturn. there was no plan. it will immedeatly become apparent that in my joy of seeing this bank, i did no research waht so ever. i have no excuse.

street spots are weird adn hard. you have to research them. this spot has a .25 inch gap betwettn the beautiful black marble and the floor. if you know it's there, you can ride up it as easily as if it was perfect. i didnt know it was there, and it wasnt. so i went into the 1/4 inch executioner at full speed, buzzed enough to never notice until i was slamming into the black marble, but no t so buzzed that i didnt put my elbow down into it first. slamming into marble at speed is a beautiful thing. there is no scraping, just a pressure sore as big as my fist. The pain is in the bone, not on the surface.

anyway, we drank more and talked more shit until i couldn't avoid going home.

lzyk goes to baltimore soon. i used to keep a sig on the nighttable. i hope this wore off on her.