Squirreled one of these at the office. What a nostalgic flavor… in a good way (unlike a Twinkie, although the white krapp inside is the same).
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Last Sunday’s Kamilo’iki hike opened up a failure point on my old Danner 453 boots. On one of the stairstep descents, the rough lava rock grabbed the rubber outsole at the heel and tore it loose. They’re almost exactly 4 years old, so that’s a pretty good service life I’ve gotten out of them. The outsole at the heels are worn flat, and the EVA midsole is packed out, but until this event there was no impending sign that the outsole or midsole was going to delaminate or worse yet crumble to powder. The outsole was still soft and grippy – it hadn’t hardened slick and begun to crack. I defenitely got my money’s worth out of these, unlike my previous two pairs of Salomons that failed prematurely for one reason or another. I guess I could try reglueing the loose flap, but it’s time to retire these with dignity. Wonder what I’ll get to replace them?
Whoa! Has Ckucke been by the shop recently? Note that it is twisted in the tightening direction! I tried replicating this by cranking another 6mm key in a vise, but it cammed out of the jaws before it could twist.
So I’m flowing from H1 Eastbound onto H2 Northbound and there is a green Taurus crawling up my back bumper. After the merge, our lane becomes the second lane, with a fast lane starting from nothing on the left, and the two lanes from H1 Westbound coming in from the right. Instead of simply getting into the empty fast lane (considering he wanted to go fast), he swerves all the way into the furthest right lane (the slowest lane), then weaves through traffic to eventually make it into the fast lane near the Ka Uka off-ramp. Wahiawa that’s why? What’s up with Hawaii drivers and the “pass on the right” habituation?
(0)It’s barely into October and Pearl Highlands already has xmas banners hanging on the parking lot light poles! WTF?!?!
(0)Just went by Auto Recycling on Sand Island, $40 per rim for stock Toyota steel?!
(0)The albizia trees are in full bloom for the second time this year. Have fun with your allergies! Wonder if all the delusional folk who complained about the State cutting down their “pretty trees” along the H2 corridor realize that this tree is to blame for all the doctor visits and allergy med copays for themselves and their kids?
(0)So I get into the “down” elevator on the 3rd floor lobby level at QMC POB-1 and press “2”. This large sour-faced woman standing by the button panel sneers loudly and snidely, “This elevator is going down“, thinking I may have wanted to go up but got into whichever elevator opened first. “Yeah, ” I spoke as dryly and matter-of-fact-ly as possible, “2 is down.” She shrunk as much as her bulk allowed. Some maintenance guy in the back of the elevator with a service cart laughed out loud.
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With a bit of hiatus till next rally-X, the timing was good to do a bunch of work on the rally FX. Most of the major work was done and I’d put enough miles to break in the new clutch and LSD. I was itching to test it out, and this past Sunday was an auto-X event. I decided to slap on my old 13″ racing wheel set and go for it! Decided Saturday morning to swap over the rear swaybar too. That one is a Whiteline uprated adjustable bar.
For anyone keeping track, here’s what has happened to the rally FX: Continue reading ‘Triwheeling’
Having just gotten back to Hawaii from Japan on Saturday the 24th. and having exploded my lower back on my first day back at work, I wasn’t quite ready to do anything other than lie down until Wednesday. The weather was not bad, so I took a spin on the bike. I tried pushing some intervals, cycling through “hard”, “harder”, and then recovering on “easy”. Along my circuit, there was a black polyethylene cloth construction barrier along the sidewalk. Each time I passed, a little mongoose was poking his head out from the corner, watching for doves or chickens to prey on. Never saw him get anything. Didn’t run his head over either (not like that squirrel in Whistler). The ride actually did my back some good – loosening it up and stretching it out.
D = 11.86 km (7.37-miles), Vavr = 17.5 km/h (10.9-mph), Vmax = 48.1 km/h (29.9-mph), T = 41-minutes