Was able to take a skate lunch break since I had logged in early with the late shift.  It was sunny and hot with some humidity.  I had put a cast baseplate back on and tighter bushings.  It felt weird at first and I once again felt very off on my board.  I got there first and thought that warming up might be impossible.  Dave showed and we checked out the barrier.  Still confused why the transition is on the side with the cracks, but oh well.  Dave did a few stalls on the low part, I did a couple.  Then we went into lines centered around curved beam.  Flip trick then boardslide then something.  Except I would slide about 1 foot of the end and Dave would be sliding the whole thing.  He had some really good boardslides and some to fakie.  He had kickflips, fakie sex change, a totally (not) clean halfcab flip (ha).  We would go on to the two cinder block ledges.  Dave had front boards, front 50s, front noses, switch front noses.  My flip trick game went better than yesterday.  I had heelflip, halfcab flips, fakie bigflip, kickflip over the parking block and was close to switch flips.  Then we mostly skated the two quick cinder ledges.  I had some good lines on paper.  Switch noses then front 50, front 50 then nollie front tail, noseslide to fakie then switch front nose, switch front nose then halfcab nose.  Then one that really made my day.  Boardslide then crooks then sketchy treflip.  Ended with another one that made my day.  Switch front nose then fakie 50.  Man I needed a good session so bad.  Whew.  Always fun skating with Dave.  At the end the Square State crew showed up and it was great seeing Brian, Rick and Christian.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 red cast baseplate v-hollow hangers, bones hard bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

On a hot night I went to campus around 7.  I started at the slappy meetup curb.  Did a few slappy crooks and slappy front crooks.  I had put a new 8.25 together with 5.6 v-hollow and old 51mm bones v2s.  It felt great for slappies.  Then I went to the flagstone ledge.  I was in a funk and didn’t want to be around people so I was really annoyed when a couple people sat on a nearby ledge and watched me.  I was skating so incredibly terrible. I couldn’t even kickflip, literally took like 10 tries to get one.  I did however do okay with backside crooks and noseslides.  Hadn’t gotten to the point of trying front 50s when it started to rain.  So I skated the covered flatground area where a different couple came and sat and watched me not land anything.  I think it took 30 tries to get a halfcab flip.  Eventually the rain died down and I left considering leaving my skateboard behind for good.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow, venom 88a bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10 not much pain but had zero energy or pop)