Mosquito Season

Mosquito season is in full force. It was in the upper teens tonight and I went to meet up with sukkotosan, rmj, and FeM at the bridge. I got there an hour before closing with very shaky legs. It got better after a couple of beers but not before we left the bridge. Before we left the bridge, I saw bkt and mc. A few people greeted me who I didn't really know, and I met a new american with whom I expect along to get. The lights went out and rmj and FeM and I went across teh street to a spot that we've been eying for years but never actually skated. It's a thing bank to ledge, about 3m across, and in my memory, it was unskatable due to bad tiling and cracks, but memory mislead me and rmj proved it with a **** ***** and FeM playfully got three or four little dootles.

We headed down to some banks. It's about one km away, and my shitty wheels have been worn down to early 90s size. Every crack and pebbled caused me problems, all the way. I can't wait for one of the bearings to break and I'll just throw them all out together.

They skated the banks. I drank a beer because I was already too tired. The banks at 古亭 are dark marble, and about waist high. They're at the intersection of two unfortunately busy roads, and skating them draws way too much attention. They are the backside of an underground crosswalk, adn have a curved white metal roof on top, about .5 meters above the bank. I've never seen anyone skate the roof in real life, but it's been done on video. As usual, rmj got a new trick (at least as far as I can remember of what he's done there) on the banks, and FeM did a couple of things on the grinding side of the the bank that I wouldnt' have imagined trying if he hadnt done it in front of me.

Then we went ot the telecom ledges. They werent really feeling it, but I desperately wanted to get a nice long **-**. They were both trying ***** *-* but neither of them got it. At one point, FeM was charging into the trick and rmj was picked himself up and FeM let out a rebel yell of warning. I don't have the talent to describe why it was so funny.

I eventually sort of got my trick, but these ledges are very sticky and sharp on the corner. I'm going to go back when I can spend more time **-**ing them.

The homies went home, but not before rmj stooped up on a temporary stoop. We had some empty beer cans at that point, and rmj convinced me not to be a douche and throw them away in a trashcan. I tried. A long time. Eventually, I put them in the front baskets of Obikes. I skated down the road with an armload of empty beer cans, even dropping them and giong back to pick them up again. I tried. After I left them in the bike basket, I immediately found a public toilet with a trashcan.

I also found a long marble curb that we used to skate going the other way. I wanted to put my new **** tricks on it, and it worked, even though each try meant skate past the guard in his booth. I guess he was watching some really good porn, or he just liked watching me try ***** ****s on his cctv. My tail was chipping and delaminating, and it disintegrated at this spot. The black beauty has been a great deck. Maybe my favorite of all time. And it still didn't break all the way, even though I went ot hte three stair park and tried my best to kill it. All the new tricks came easily and quickly. I have never had a skateboard on which I learned I learned more tricks.