This morning to my left:
And to my right:
The last few nights, the moon pretty much kicked ass. It lights of the ocean clear to the beach. I need to set my camera up on it's tripod and take some timelapse shots of that moon and see if they come out worth a damn. I will do this tonight. Yesterday, I got home and was so worn out from the prior day's skate park venture that I just crashed and slept clear until today. Well, I got up to eat cold pizza, and then I went back to sleep.
Tonight on the other hand, I have a plan laid out:
+skate park until 7 p.m. (when it closes)
+clean up condo for parental visit
+work on bike (put on new tires, maybe screw with driver)
+go see Dark Knight at midnight with prepaid ticket
Jared (aim = b3ds) claims he is going to come stay with me at some point this summer. I'll believe it when I see it, bastard. I'll only be here for a couple of months, max, so whoever is going to come live it up with me one weekend needs to come before time runs out. The only condition is that you have to haul Brittany with you here and back, provided she doesn't have to work.
David and Brit(tany or ney?) Ware are coming the last weekend of this month to go to Ship Island and to haul my girlfriend here for me. Brent and Jade may be visiting that same weekend (at max capacity). Keep in mind, there is a spare bedroom which has it's own bathroom. And when you first come in, there are some bunk beds. Other than that, there is just a couch. So I've been trying to encourage people to visit at seperate times instead of all together because of 1) limited room 2) to disable too much rowdyness 3) and seperate trips = more chances for my girl to come here, too.
This weekend, however, I will be in Jackson building up this:
Essentially, if you count my last six months in purchases, I'll basically have a whole new bike after this frame comes in (along with my 170mm Profiles w/ Ti spindle). It's a long overdue overhaul of my bike. After accomplishing a rail and a few other things, I feel like I finally deserve an upgrade. Although, nobody has to do anything to be able to enjoy a fresh new bike. I was pretty spoiled with all the nice bikes I had growing up, but I eventually learned how to ride them as they were intended to be ridden.
Annoying stereotypical questions I was asked at my first visit to the skatepark:
1) Can you do a backflip?
2) Are you in the X-games?
3) What kind of bike is that?
4) How much is that bike worth?
5) Can you grind?
I was grinding all day. That's one of the main things I was doing the entire time at the park, and a kid who was around me the whole time still asked if I could grind.
Here is the park, care of hotlinking pictures from their site. I'll take some of my own eventually, where you can see more.
The grind box with the little lip on one end of it is super fun. Stem height, slick, long and both sided friendly. There is a medium sized half pipe in back that I was having fun on even though I rarely went above the coping.
Those slanted rails are pretty scary. They are easy to get on, but they all go straight into the ground. The layout is a bit different than it was when these pictures were taken, but the ramps are the most fun to ride and so is this pyramid shaped grind that you can jump into and land on a landing out of... or you can just grind up and down the entire thing (going super fast).
That's all for now. People need to make a reservation with me and visit. There is good stuff to do down here, including doing nothing but just staring at the ocean from my balcony.