from the twisted minds of snm
It was intermittently drizzling when I got home yesterday, but I really wanted to get some riding time in. By the time I was geared up, the drizzling had completely subsided, but the ground was damp here and there, especially in the grass. The heat and humidity were incredible but not quite unbearable. Staying inside the house would have been unbearable!
D = 15.40 km (9.57-miles), Vavr =18.3 km/h  (11.4-mph), Vmax = 43.3 km/h (26.9-mph), T = 50-minutes
Here are some pictures of the opening reception of the Monster Mash show at Chinatown Boardroom last Thursday. There were a good number of pieces sold on opening night. The show will run through Halloween, so go by and check it out if your’e in the area! Thanks to everyone who made it down. Jackie did an amazing job hanging the show solo and stenciling the walls around the paintings.
Darned rain. Darned food poisoning. October 4th came and went. I missed Tsukimi. Oh, well – maybe next year. Oh yeah – that reminds me – I didn’t get to enjoy any moon cake this year.
After lunch yesterday, the chills started. I toughed it out through the day and hung about the office after work until the Monster Mash show opening, figuring a little rest would help. Feeling no better, I sucked it up and went downtown to drive in circles in search of parking and walked over to the gallery. I tried putting on my best face even though I felt like krap since this was the first show I’d been involved with in a long time. I struggled through pizza dinner, then embarked on the painfully long drive home, having to stop for late night gasoline in Kalihi on the way. A shower and some antipyretics didn’t do much to improve my condition, but sleep did, although interrupted by fits of cramping. Surprisingly, the expected “blast” so far has not materialized. In case this was the start of “the dreaded flu” (the incubation period would be about right for me to have picked up something on the airplane from KIX), I was socially responsible and stayed home from work today.  In retrospect, I could have worked through the pain, and I am now fairly certain this isn’t Novel H1N1. There goes one vacation day… Gastroentertis is not your friend.
At the bottom of my street, there is a T-intersection. While out riding today, I stopped at the stop sign at the bottom of the hill. Being the after work rush, there was comparatively a lot of traffic at this otherwise quiet intersection. There were two cars on the left, and three cars on the right.
No biggie.
I clipped out and footed down to wait for an opening. The first right car was a Lexus RX. She (I’m profiling here: Lexus RX + illegally dark tint + bad driving = short Asian mom) stopped appropriately to make a left into the street I was coming out of until the left cars passed. She then waited there. If the windows (including windscreen) weren’t excessively dark, I would have probably seen her waving me through. I had the stop sign: She had right of way. I unclipped the other foot and stood down. I was not going to trust her and go. Continue reading ‘Wrong of Way’
For some reason, I felt inspired to ride today. Part of it was being off the bike for a long time, and another was getting used to a high level of daily exercise while in Kyoto. My arms hurt from riding BMX with the crew last night (thankfully, I wasn’t cut and bloody like JT). My ischial arches hurt from riding on Monday. Nonetheless, I went for an after-work spin when I got home. I forgot to switch out to clear lenses, so by the time I was heading home, I had to pocket the Oakleys in order to see.
D = 13.3 km (8.14-miles), Vavr = 17.9 km/h (11.1-mph), Vmax = 36.9 km/h (22.9-mph), T = 44-minutes
Fool! At the quitting time busy 4-way stop at Cooke and Pohukaina, saw a plateless new luxury sedan (you can probably guess what brand from the dealers in the area) being driven by a dude in the corporate service department uniform pass a car stopped appropriately at the stop sign on Pohukaina and blow through the intersection. He creeped around the stopped car on the right side and narrowly missed being nailed by the cars on Cooke whose turn it was to go. The only thing worse than the drivers in Hawaii is maybe the drivers in Korea, or the bicyclists in Kyoto.
(0)Toyota really believes that Americans hate station wagons. The LHD version of the JDM Altezza Gita station wagon was sold on the USDM as the IS 300 SportCross.  Considering the “IS” part of the name is “International Sedan”, that means this station wagon was a really a sedan with a liftgate – in other words, aside from the fact that it wasn’t a sedan, it was a sedan.  Just so long as you don’t use the word “wagon”, everything is right with the world. WTF?!
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Where is this? …specifically, where is the white horse? The first person to give me the correct lattitude and longitude and win a potentially fabulous prize! To enter, register and add a comment to this post with your guess and I’ll tell you if you’re right!
This month’s prize is a foliage green Fastex Grimloc. If you win and are outside the USA, there might be some issue in getting this to you, so you may just win recognition of your weird knowledge!
Contest ends 31 October 2009. Contest terms subject to change.
Okay, the end of the month has come, and many of you were within the correct area, but nobody nailed the precise location. Fabio even spent part of his day driving around the area looking for the white horse! I figured the golfers amongst you would have had the best chance of seeing it, since it is just off the back section of the West Loch muni golf course behind HMC West. Here are the longitude and lattitude coordinates of the horse: 21.370707,-158.031708
Thanks to everyone who participated!
I’m part of a group art show, “Monster Mash,” at Chinatown Boardroom this coming month. The opening reception is this Thursday, 01 October 2009, from 18:00 to 20:00. The show runs through Halloween. Come by and check it out and say, “hi!” If you can’t make it by for the opening, gallery hours are normally Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-16:00.