I'll start my week early BECAUSE.
Wednesday I met Jimmy
@soundz for Chipotle where he fell asleep
Then I met up with
@jimvreeland to slay some summit
His friend paul showed up and schooled us on how to ride a bicycle.
This closed bridge was way sketchier than it looks in this picture.
Thursday I was back in the city and met Jimmy at starbucks.
I'm stupified by Manhattan. I do a lot of work in the city, and I usually buzz back home as fast as humanly possible. I've been trying to take advantage of the city at least a tiny bit recently. Last week I went to a burrito spot and this week I visited Jimmy. The girl to straight guy ratio in Manhattan has got to be 5 to 1
JIMMY HOW ARE YOU NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS?
That burrito spot I was at, there were like 15 of us in there waiting for burritos. 14 25-35 year old young professional women, and me.
Then we went to Jimmy's church where he placed a curse on me. His church is in a cool ass building that was previously inhabited by giants.
Then went climbing with Aaron
@axcxnj and took a fall on lead, super super short fall but my gear and Aaron did catch me.
Friday went to dinner with @Satanpez and
@UtahJoe and my friends Ryan and Marissa. Then Ryan and the amazing Marissa and I and the wife went to my friend's house and watched Ted2 in his back yard. It was meh as expected. Then we watch Scott Pilgrim vs the world for the 89907346th time and it's still probably the best movie of the decade by a long shot.
Saturday I blew off Jimmy on riding bikes and tore apart my aging chimney. What a monsterous pain in the ass.
Put that side back together, and tore apart the front.
Then I went to my friend Phil's house and swam in his pool. We went to the Boonton carnival and I ate funnel cake for dinner.
I need to get the higher quality version of this from dudeman. They didn't think I could dive through a little kid's inner tube.
dudeman who filimed it makes his living importing e30 station wagons and selling them on ebay.
Sunday went to Fugawe. Missed taking a pic with
@JimN and
@Thin Diesel and the father of these 2 kids that hung in there and slayed fugawe. 12 and 14, they were unbelievable. Me and the 14 year old were the only ones to hit the ramp jump on the downhill trail. Maybe
@Chris26er hit it like a weenie.
But I broke my rear brake in the first 5 minutes. It's incredible how much I actually use my back brake when not actually trying to slow down. Just through rock gardens, setting up for a log over, CLIMBING a technical trail, I use it a TON. Or so I just learned. It was a real bitch to ride the fugawe without a back brake.
@woody slaying it
@Kirt killing it,
@JimN not so much
Came home, tried to get my motorcycle to idle on all 4 cyls, I'll have to pull the carbs out AGAIN. I think the ethenol in modern gas and my lack of riding it a lot is clogging up the microscopic idle jet on this thing. It's a 4 cyl with 4 REAL carbs, CV carbs. So can you imagine how tiny the 1 jet is? It's TINY.
I had the laser thermometer thing out so I temperature checked skeeter.
Then went back to my friend's pool and hung out. Went back to the carnival and watched some fireworks
Monday I slept in a bit, which has become increasingly difficult. My back is so bad while trying to sleep I can rarely get more than 6-7 hours. I need to do something about this.
I worked on the chimney briefly. Mostly setting up the ladders so I had something to stand on while working on the other side. I knocked out the one bad brick on the bottom, thankfully the entire bottom of the side is solid except the one bad brick. I used my grinding wheel/ rake thing to knock out the motor in the rest of the chimney, so I'm done with the power up there so I cleaned that up.
I forgot to take a picture of the other side that's all done now. I used all the old bricks so it doesn't look out of place. So it doesn't actually look any better. But trust me, it's WAY better. All the bricks are in there solid again, it was real bad before. Previous owner used like a gallon of silicone on it, which traps water and explodes the bricks.
Here's were we are at now, the back is apart.
Then went to my friend's pool AGAIN and swam a damn while. made this video which I think is awesome.
Then went and got ice cream at the new curly's in Boonton and thought about how
@davidcarson48 should go F himself
Okay that's it. Then I rode my bike to work today